Category: HBO

TTL Demag0gue let us know about Reclaimer 137 – it’s never easy, is it?(Louis Wu 12:33:06 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy let us know that the latest round of Friday Caption Fun is now online – great captions for last week’s odd Miranda-based screenshot… along with a totally bizarre Arbiter shot this week. Go try your luck at creativity!(Louis Wu 10:53:31 UTC)

KP announced last night that irc.bungie.org is closing its doors. Those doors opened almost five years ago, over at Homelan… and it’s been a good run. It’s time, though, to move along. For the next few days, the name will redirect to irc.adelais.net, a server run by some friends and members of the Halo community.…

Over at the Bungie Blog, urk highlighted a video which I found to be hilarious and well-made – Pattythedog615 created ‘Halo 3 Everything you Know is Wrong’, a video that uses Halo 3, Gary’s Mod (a Half-Life 2 mod), and a Weird Al song to show you that nearly anything is possible in Halo machinima.…

Jeusoni stopped in with word of yet another Halo 3 screenshot-based comic; this one is hosted by Biohazard Productions, and is entitled ‘Reconnaissance Omega’. The series started on January 1, and there’s been a page a day posted since then. Go check it out! (Louis Wu 10:33:12 UTC)

The Breaking In series at Bungie.net continues – Rob Adams, Senior Environment Architect is next up. Some decent advice in there for folks looking to find work with your friendly neighborhood Halo creator!(Louis Wu 23:55:19 UTC)

Bungie has a note explaining that due to some rollout issues with the January update (which should be pretty cool!) there won’t be a Double XP playlist this weekend… but there WILL be a new batch of playlists on Tuesday. Seems worth the tradeoff to me!(Louis Wu 23:51:53 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has tallied up the votes and created very pretty graphics for her 2008 Best of Halo Award Winners – go see who took each of the 10 categories! (Louis Wu 18:00:44 UTC)

Music 4 Games’ Greg O’Connor-Read pointed us to the press release for the Halo Wars Official Soundtrack – see details, a track listing, and the cover art. (Thanks also to Fuzunga, who noticed the release date of February 17 on Amazon’s page.)(Louis Wu 17:59:32 UTC)

Morpheus noticed that GameDaily has a feature called ‘Top 10 Things We Hate About Gaming’ – Halo makes the list twice. (Well, not really. The first time it makes the list, it’s because a picture of Halo is shown on a point card – it’s the CARD they’re complaining about.)(Louis Wu 17:58:35 UTC)

The Catfish stopped in to announce the second episode of his Halo 3 webcomic, 2501. Swing by and check it out! (Louis Wu 17:56:17 UTC)

Last month, we mentioned a court case in Ohio in which a teenager was on trial for shooting his parents – and using the defense that Halo made him do it. The judge rendered a verdict last week, finding that the boy was guilty of the shootings – I had decided to leave the story…

Thos put together a nice graphic that shows, visually, how the number of multiplayer maps for the various versions of Halo have compared over the years. I can tell this is something I’ll refer to more than once!(Louis Wu 17:54:45 UTC)

Shacknews has a list of the Most Rented Games of 2008 – and Halo 3 is third on the list. That’s a lot of renters!(Louis Wu 23:44:56 UTC)

urk let us know that Bungie Favorites has been updated again with Week 2’s worth of goodies from Buddy System Gaming. There’s also a Q&A about one of the maps. (Louis Wu 20:52:59 UTC)

mrsmiley sent word that the Wild Card Round winner of the Happy Halodays contest has been announced – there’ll be an overall winner of all five entries soon.(Louis Wu 20:52:30 UTC)

We already had a bunch of comics this morning – but now there are more.Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 50 (‘The Reeking Cold’) is now online – it’s good to shower sometimes.anthraxgoon told us about X36 Chapter One Episode 11 – intrigue and deviousness.I bet there’ll be more…(Louis Wu 20:49:02 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy is annoyed at you. Yes, you. Why? That crappy video you made last week. Wait, you’re not sure if she’s talking to YOU? Go read her Halo Video Pet Peeves, and see if you’re guilty of any of them. I have to say… most of what makes her blood boil is stuff I…

2900d4u let us know about some Halo Wars Character Profiles over at GameDaily – go meet Forge and the Arbiter. Lots of info about attack bonuses and gameplay.(Louis Wu 15:36:31 UTC)

We heard from a number of people about new comics today:Adam Susskind reported that Chaos Theory Episode 7 is now onlineTTL Demag0gue announced that Reclaimer 136 (‘Suspension’) explains a bit about Intuitive PortentHawty McBloggy let us know that ODS Steve #10 (‘Down Comes Elite, Phantom and All’) is up – and Steve’s Spartan Lasers continue…