Category: HBO

Bryan Simon let us know about a new song he’s just posted – ‘I Wanna Be An MLG Pro’ discusses the pros of being… well, a pro. You can also grab an MP3 version from us, if you like (3.6 mb).(Louis Wu 14:23:55 UTC)

411Mania.com has another round of ‘What If?’ questions, asked by readers and answered by staff – this week’s episode includes the question “What if Sony had acquired Bungie Studios instead of Microsoft?” Go see if you agree with their answers. (Louis Wu 14:23:31 UTC)

MonsterVine is hosting a third week of a ‘Caption This’ contest – prizes include 1000 Microsoft Points and three months of Xbox Live. (Full rules are here.) It’s a winter-themed pic this time around… go throw in your thoughts!(Louis Wu 14:23:12 UTC)

Over at the Bungie Blog, Yoozel pointed out a holiday-themed mosaic made up of Halo 3 screenshots, created by PFK_647. Happy Halodays! (Louis Wu 14:22:55 UTC)

The Kansas City Star has an article that suggests that full-length, full-price games might be on the wane – and points to Bungie’s Halo 3: ODST as a prime example of a potentially more successful model – shorter gameplay, less cash. (Louis Wu 14:21:55 UTC)

Adam Susskind stopped in to point out his ‘Halo Graphic Series’, Chaos Theory – a different take on the Halo screenshot comic. It comes out once a week, in PDF format, and is about 20 pages long. Episode 4 is up now – but back issues are available from the navbar on the left. Check…

Heh – Stephen Loftus shows that, as mentioned in the Art of Halo 3 book, a UNSC Pelican is large enough to fit an Abrams M1A1 Main Battle Tank in its troop bay (though Bry would argue the semantics of ‘fit’). Fun discussion!(Louis Wu 23:49:08 UTC)

ZZoMbiE13 was inspired to add a new installment of Another Halo Comic Strip after playing Mirror’s Edge… I think he’s got a point.(Louis Wu 23:48:13 UTC)

I ran across Dimensions Halo 3, a Halo 3-themed template for Joomla-based websites. If you’re using Joomla as a content management system and you’d like your site to have a pretty clean Halo 3 look… check this out!(Louis Wu 14:24:36 UTC)

kr-1426 pointed out that the HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week for this Friday’s stories is now online on the HBOFF forum – give it a read!(Louis Wu 14:24:12 UTC)

Tommy92L dropped in to announce Tommy 92L’s Christmas Special, a machinima made with HaloCE with a heartwarming message for the Holidays. Give it a look!(Louis Wu 14:23:38 UTC)

AvatarAang noticed that Arby and the Chief Season 3 Episode 5 is now online – MC and Craig have their 1v1 to see who’s more MLG.(Louis Wu 14:23:13 UTC)

Pete Cooper stopped in to say that the Warthog Diary for his Operation Chastity movie is now online – go see how the progress is going!(Louis Wu 22:25:33 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy pointed out a newer version of the Halo Light Show (we mentioned the first one back in October) – seemed a bit too heavy on the After Effects filters, but was entertaining, to some degree. Go watch!(Louis Wu 22:23:17 UTC)

A few weeks ago, we mentioned part one of an interview with Colm Nelson, Halo 3’s Interaction Designer. Part two has now been posted (thanks, Nidonocu). It’s got some really interesting information about how the social interaction portions of Halo 3’s AI were built – I hope other game designers read this, because very few…

2900d4u pointed out new updates at the Halo Wars website – new buildings for the UNSC, new buildings and units for the Covenant (the Vampire looks pretty cool!). It’s all a Happy Holidays bonus to you from the Ensemble team. (Louis Wu 14:20:39 UTC)

AvatarAang pointed out a promo for an upcoming episode of Inside Halo – live-action Chief working out? Ooookay…(Louis Wu 14:16:13 UTC)

Ze master is away from his desk for the next day or two. Carry on!(Ding 06:26:10 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update is up early this week (thanks, mendicantbias00) – and in honor of the holidays, it contains some goodies for you. Tasty details on the progress of Halo 3: ODST, hints of things to be posted in the coming weeks, a very cool holiday card (usually, the public doesn’t get these puppies,…

It was posted to the web a week ago, but the Bungie Blog is still the first I’m hearing of a new Bryan Simon song, ‘Master Chief Under My Christmas Tree’. If you’d rather have an audio-only version, you can grab an MP3 from us (2.9 mb).(Louis Wu 21:47:00 UTC)