Category: HBO

It’s Thursday, so a new Double Experience Weekend has kicked off; this week, it’s Grifball Winter League. Hammers and Bombs!(Louis Wu 19:35:31 UTC)

Whoa – another ‘Top 10 Halo 3’ ep, hot on the heels of the last one. This one is ‘Top 10 Moments of ‘Arby ‘n’ the Chief’… if you don’t pay attention to the series, consider this a highlight reel. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 19:33:46 UTC)

Apparently, the February 2009 issue of GamePro will contain new info about both Halo Wars, and and interview with Bungie about Halo 3: ODST. Sounds tasty!(Louis Wu 11:59:52 UTC)

Do you really want to have your own set of Halo Spartan armor, but can’t see yourself building your own helmet? Hawty McBloggy’s got your back – she went through and found nine regular items that look like Spartan helmets. Grab one, hollow it out, you’re on your way. (Legal note: this post in no…

kr-1426 stopped in to point out the most recent HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week – go see what he thought topped the submissions last week!(Louis Wu 11:53:51 UTC)

I recently stumbled across a nice piece of Brute-flavored artwork over at High Impact Halo – BierWiser sketched a little piece, and then colored it. (I like the uncolored version better, myself, but you can make up your own mind.) Check it out!(Louis Wu 11:48:39 UTC)

Rampancy.net is back with another podcast – Narcogen and Blackstar discuss Floodgate, the fifth level of Halo 3. This one is 52 minutes long, 48 mb large (in mp3 format), and part one of their level coverage. It’s available in both MP3 and MP4 formats – if you’re not seeing download links in the posts,…

Lots of people got us the news that Steve Ballmer released at the CES Keynote last night – elessar was first with a pointer to Joystiq’s writeup, but PriorMarcus wasn’t far behind with a link from Kotaku. (Bungie’s Jim M. sent us an LA Times link – but it has bad info, so you might…

Once again, a late posting spree on the Bungie Blog brings you a wealth of new videos that I should start letting you know about in the evenings… here we go:urk points out the sixth episode in Darknai’s ‘The Forgotten Spartans’ machinima; he’s totally right about the music. (If you like this, here are the…

According to Bungie.net, the Push-To-Talk upgrade mentioned recently is now live – with playlist changes following soon. Go play push-free!(Louis Wu 22:19:09 UTC)

Bungie has spotlighted Buddy System Gaming, a group that exists to help you find a good game – and once you read the mini-interview, you can check out what THEY consider fun by perusing Bungie Favorites. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 20:16:09 UTC)

I highlight this because it’s just plain cool. Falagard, over at NeoGAF, used a Wacom Bamboo tablet and MS Paint (!!!) to whip up an image which should IMMEDIATELY resonate with any long-term Halo fan. Kick-ass.(Louis Wu 20:01:26 UTC)

Over at Halo3Forum, SicktistiK put together a set of random fileshare clips into a really nice montage of great gameplay footage. Thanks, Z.(Louis Wu 15:49:42 UTC)

Dantrell stopped by with word of some big prizes if you’re willing to participate in the Halo Bible Forum – go read!(Louis Wu 15:12:15 UTC)

pete_the_duck wrote up another night of exploits on Xbox LIVE – and added a fun highlights video. Both are worth your time. Comments can go in his forum thread. Update: Whoa, another one – it’s a trend! This one was put together by Avateur. Lots of pics. Check it out!(Louis Wu 15:09:10 UTC)

Aside from the new issue of Chaos Theory mentioned in the last news post, there are a bunch of OTHER webcomics going live today:anthraxgoon let us know about X36 Chapter 1 Issue 9Andrew Kleiner pointed us to Outbreak, a comic he’s been hosting on a forum for a while now; there are a lot of…

Lots of tidbits in the Bungie Blog yesterday afternoon – here’s a summary.A video showing a team of HaloBabies regulars taking on the Bungie Annual ChallengeA video of funky clips from Halo 3 – old, but coolThe webcomic Chaos Theory, Episode 6 was announced (this was also announced on our own forum – thanks, Adam)A…

We got word from Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris, the Mythic Master, that his January Challenge was (almost) met – B0ANERGES managed to complete 8 of the missions in the time allotted (and the final mission since then), thereby becoming the 10th Mythic Conqueror on record… and winning the 1600 Microsoft Point pot Tyrant put up for…

Our friendly neighborhood punmeister was inspired (possibly by a fragment of an underdone potato) to poke fun at one of the most common denizens of Halo 3 matchmaking – check out the latest One One Se7en for full details. (We may have to start numbering these for real again at some point…)(Louis Wu 15:19:14 UTC)

It’s Tuesday, and it’s a new year, so XerxdeeJ is back with word of updates on the Tied the Leader blog – TTL Venus sat down with TTL Demag0gue for a pretty in-depth interview about Halo, comics, horses, and Chicago cops… and OboeCrazy whipped up another volume of Gunslinger highlights – highlights for me were…