Category: HBO

ZZoMBiE13 continues his study of RvB: Reconstruction – he recently posted a closeup of the Meta. Love the chin horns!(Louis Wu 13:57:26 UTC)

Ten new submissions for the Fan Fiction section this week – and a number of them are flagged for the ‘You’re Doing It Write’ contest, as well. Go read!(Louis Wu 13:55:18 UTC)

The Reclaimer 103 is now online (thanks, SonofMacPhisto) – Viper’s danger is becoming apparent, and it looks like things are about to heat up. (Louis Wu 13:47:30 UTC)

xen eldridge let us know that HaloRPG.com has a plasma-pistol-only Double XP weekend. Hmm… (Louis Wu 13:46:45 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy continues her Fan Art spotlight series with a work from Halcylon – it was inspired by a Star Wars image, but it’s all Halo. check it out!(Louis Wu 13:41:02 UTC)

KP stopped in to remind people that today is the last day to register for the Fight Like a Girl charity tourney – and there’s been a last-minute addition of a 2v2 challenge against Bungie employees! Go register, if you haven’t already.(Louis Wu 23:33:05 UTC)

Love From the Game is hosting a charity tournament – $30/team to get in, the ladder is open now, and runs through the end of November. The winner goes home with $1000, the runner-up gets $500. Proceeds benefit the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. Awesome! Gather up a team, and sign up! Thanks to urk,…

Been frustrated by the Alas, Poor Yorick achievement, and the scarcity of oddball games on appropriate maps? Be frustrated no more – the latest Double Experience weekend has just kicked off… and it’s 3 Ball. An entire playlist devoted to gametypes involving 4 teams and 3 balls… yummy. Go read about it at B.net, or…

Remember when Fairfax the Bunny showed up here? Fairfax is Marissa’s Bunny – he travels around the world, making people happy and building awareness for Marissa’s infantile spasms. (He’s got a whole website – you should visit it, if you hadn’t before.) When Fairfax left here, he headed north, to Boston. Where he hung for…

You might or might not have noticed an upgrade just applied to Tyrant’s Mythic Walkthrough here on HBO – yesterday, we added streaming embedded versions of all vids to all existing pages. The download versions are still there, for anyone who wants them (say, if you want to watch them offline, or because you don’t…

Bryan Ojeda found a very funny video on YouTube – LigerKG got stuck at the same moment that the host of his game quit… and the result was a blue spider that stayed with him until he died (well, even longer than that). (Louis Wu 13:34:49 UTC)

Wow… this thread made me very, very sad. A denizen of the Bungie.net forums was served divorce papers this week… because he spends more time with video games than with his wife. (I think what REALLY threw me for a loop, though, was the response – when faced with the loss of his wife and…

Mid7night posted a 41 mb, 2.5 minute video showing off his X-Plane Pelican flying around the ‘Lost Isles of the Pacific’ – I’m sure glad I wasn’t in the back! (Louis Wu 13:20:46 UTC)

pete_the_duck has posted a video showing the solution to his Flaming Ninja Challenge 2 – do not watch this if you’re trying to work it out for yourself, but if you’ve given up, or if you want to make sure that your solution matches his, check this out. (I looked at the Challenge when it…

BuckyStudios let us know that Flip Your Banshee is now up on YouTube. A musical tribute to one of the more flexible vehicles in the Halo 3 armada, it contains some really beautiful Banshee moves! Definitely worth the two minutes of your time it takes to watch it.(Louis Wu 12:43:56 UTC)

Just a reminder – the orange Hayabusa figure being auctioned off for charity (we mentioned it a couple of days ago) will sell today – auction ends in 11 hours or so. Current price is $220.27 – get your bid in!(Louis Wu 12:31:43 UTC)

According to the Detroit Free Press, there’s a Halo tournament coming up this Saturday in Ferndale (a suburb of Detroit) – admission is $20 in advance, $25 at the door, top prize is $100… but you get to play on 65 inch screens. Swing by if you’re in the area!(Louis Wu 12:26:39 UTC)

Gah! I totally forgot to post the fourth installment of Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris’ SLASO walkthrough of Halo 3 yesterday – but you can read (and watch) The Storm right now. 9 movies, and 3500 words worth of tips, should get you through this level without dying! Check it out.(Louis Wu 12:23:43 UTC)

pete_the_duck is back with another obstacle course – the Flaming Ninja Challenge 2 is a for-fun romp through a modified Blackout, doing your best not to die. Check out his post for full details!(Louis Wu 20:05:14 UTC)

ConK3rS has been building a pepakura Master Chief helmet – he sent us a bunch of pics. Amazing to follow the progress!(Louis Wu 19:53:29 UTC)