Category: HBO

Superarticulated has put up a review of the Halo 3 Series 3 figures from McFarlane – pros, cons, lots of pics. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 19:40:31 UTC)

IGN finished up a three-day ‘Top 15 Video Commandos’ series – and Halo’s Master Chief is in the final five. Thanks, WarFreak.(Louis Wu 17:38:41 UTC)

The ‘Cooler Tagline’ contest started by John_117 yesterday has already concluded – looks like we were victorious! That was the fastest Kotobukiya statue we’ve ever won. Now I have to go back through my mail – I seem to recall getting some cool contest ideas not too long ago…(Louis Wu 17:04:44 UTC)

RandomSauce let us know that the sixth installment of Halo 3 Mythbusters is now available at YouTube. Some of these are REALLY cool. A few are just novelties, or demonstrations of oversights in Halo 3 programming… but others have serious potential in competitive gameplay. I’ve got to try out the magnetic equipment trick!(Louis Wu 16:44:10…

jake108 let us know about Teabag Prevention #27 – tips to keep you from sucking on Foundry. Only read this if you’re on my team, okay?(Louis Wu 16:37:50 UTC)

The fourth episode of DigitalPh33r’s Hard Justice series is now online – it’s hard to be a cop in a town that has different priorities than you do. THanks, AvatarAang.(Louis Wu 16:30:24 UTC)

SonGoharotto has had a hard time finding a group to do the Annual achievement with – but yesterday, he managed it… and took some great pictures. Go enjoy his victory with him!(Louis Wu 16:30:05 UTC)

Last week, Cinema Blend put up an editorial discussing how Halo 3 was killing console multiplayer. There was some discussion on our forum, and a sizeable rebuttal from Narcogen, at Rampancy.net – but I managed to miss a counter-editorial at Cinema Blend itself. (After reading it, I’m not sure that was such a bad thing;…

In the weird-but-cool category: John_117 stopped by to point out a thread he’s kicked off on Bungie.net (he’s known as Helveck over there). He wants to know which site, Bungie.net or HBO, has the ‘more comical’ title lines. (You know, those lines that show up in the title bar of your browser; look up to…

Only a couple of days remain to vote for your favorite pumpkins in our Guilt O’ Lantern contest… if you haven’t voted yet, take this opportunity to do so! I’m going to close down the voting at Midnight, EST, Sunday night – you’ve got about 37 hours. Make sure your voice is heard!(Louis Wu 15:56:44…

Hawty McBloggy dug up a custom-painted pink Elite figure on eBay – proceeds go to the American Breast Cancer Foundation. Auction ends in just under a week… go see!(Louis Wu 15:54:49 UTC)

InnerRayg ntoiced that a new licensed product is now on the market – over at Gamernode, there’s word of a Microsoft-approved full-sized Master Chief helmet, selling for $115. No word on who makes these.(Louis Wu 15:49:21 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update is now live – and along with a TINY bit of information about Halo 3: Recon, there are also a bunch of user-asked questions, answered. Well, sort of answered. Go read! (As usual, you’re welcome to use our Weekly Update Archive.)(Louis Wu 01:13:57 UTC)

I saw new content on Bungie.net – and thought it might be the weekly update. Nope – just a really convoluted suicide. Go watch!(Louis Wu 00:35:46 UTC)

Bry stopped in with closer looks at the Covenant Assault Carrier and the UNSC Warthog. Awesome pics! (Louis Wu 18:40:56 UTC)

One more RvB: Reconstruction pic from ZZoMBiE13 – The Meta is tossing cars at Grif, and Grif doesn’t like it. Nice work!(Louis Wu 18:37:01 UTC)

The name ‘Jen Taylor’ should ring a bell with Halo fans – she’s been the voice of Cortana since there’s BEEN a Cortana. Over at Bungie.net, there’s a post that might be of interest to Taylor fans in the Seattle area… she’s part of a group that just started the New Century Theater Company, and…

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another round of Friday Caption Fun over at Hawty McBloggy’s. The last outing was 3 weeks ago – this one contains reader submissions for that screenshot, plus a new screenshot to play with. Seriously… that is one big gun.(Louis Wu 15:43:29 UTC)

NartFOpc pointed out an article at Cracked.com – ‘The 7 Deadly Sins of Online Gaming’ looks at some of the bad things you can do in today’s multiplayer games (and what should happen to you when you do). Teabagging makes the list. (Louis Wu 15:43:07 UTC)

Nick, from Halo 3 RPG, let us know that it’s a Team Pistol Double XP weekend over there. Also, Mast3r-117 started an official Halo 3 FanClub on Bungie.net.(Louis Wu 15:42:40 UTC)