Category: HBO

A quick clarification about the ‘Take Our Stuff’ contest; we made it really easy to enter, and a LOT of you have taken advantage of that. That’s cool. We’ve received over 3000 entries so far (and the contest has only been live for 12 hours). That huge volume of entries, though, means the tolerance level…

It’s taken longer than expected to get this running… but we’d like to give away a bunch of stuff. Some of it we collected at PAX, some we’re helping Bungie clear out of their stockpile. All of it is stuff Halo fans can use. Swing by the contest page for full details, rules, and more.(Louis…

The Royal Society for Chemistry in London was unhappy with the name ‘Large Hadron Collider’ for the newly-operational construct in France and Switzerland, so they launched a competition for a new name… and the most popular choice (and winner of the competition) was ‘Halo’.”Halo conjures visions of radiant beauty, power and wisdom. The circle of…

Heh – gunluva noticed (via Kotaku) a feature on The -Minus World that’s funny, and has Halo content to boot; what more could you want? (Me, I wanna play that version of Bioshock.)(Louis Wu 20:35:27 UTC)

The Running Riot let us know that they’ve sorted through a large number of submitted screenshots and video clips to pick their TRR Favs – swing by to see the top three screens and top 3 clips. I loved ‘Lucky Mine’!(Louis Wu 16:41:43 UTC)

OddGodHMK has combined his Boring Comics series with his ‘The Biased’ comic series to create Boring Comics #23 – where’s that fourth wall when you need it?(Louis Wu 16:41:28 UTC)

Pynion was a contributor to our forum long before he was hired by Bungie to work on Halo 3. Yesterday, he sent along some artwork he’d created for the game that hadn’t made it into the final build – go take a look at these tidbits!(Louis Wu 15:08:32 UTC)

Speaking of Artist Galleries here at HBO, we got word last night from Bryn Casey that he’d whipped up another Halo scene – This one is called ‘The Last One’, and it’s a powerful view of a damaged Earth!(Louis Wu 14:50:58 UTC)

Luke McKay has been posting sketches of characters and scenes from Red vs Blue: Reconstruction since early June, but we’ve been really lax about adding them to his gallery here. Swing by for visualizations of Washington, South, the Meta, and a great scene from Episode 6.(Louis Wu 14:43:39 UTC)

Gamasutra has an article, reprinted from Game Developer magazine, about how to introduce difficulty intelligently into video games. Halo is held up more than once as a good example. Give it a read! (Louis Wu 14:19:24 UTC)

O L sent us a note about a charity called ‘Extra Life’, a 24 hour gaming marathon, where people can pledge money for each our a gamer participates. It’s being supported by two gaming communities that have Halo ties – Sarcastic Gamer and Achievement Hunter. This isn’t really Halo-related… but proceeds go to the Texas…

Hawty McBloggy ran another batch of Halo pick-up lines through some online translators… and came up with… well, stuff you probably shouldn’t try on someone you’re trying to pick up. (You know, she seemed like such a sweet person, in person…) (Louis Wu 14:10:09 UTC)

GamesIndustry.biz talked to MGS Head Phil Spencer recently – and he mentioned that “there are more than two or three teams building Halo things right now.” We know about Halo Chronicles, built by an internal Microsoft team, we know about Halo Wars, being built by Ensemble. We know about one or two Halo-related projects being…

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 88 has been posted – the Reclaimer is beginning to understand what is required of him.(Louis Wu 13:54:03 UTC)

SnowJP 360 let us know that DWT Productions has posted E.O.A. Episode 0.5; it’s old footage, showing off some Halo 2 random tricks… but it’s a nice burst of nostalgia. (Louis Wu 13:53:43 UTC)

Morpheus is kicking off a new service – he’s willing to capture Halo 3 clips for you, at no cost. It’s not automatic, so I’m thinking he’ll probably get overwhelmed relatively quickly… but if you’ve got stuff you want captured, and you’re not happy with the limitations of GameVee, this might be a decent option!…

oriol003 let us know that Grunts R Us has revived their Halo Signature Generator; swing by if you need one! (Louis Wu 13:52:32 UTC)

SilverBrin discovered an old collection of ‘Lost Halo Excerpts’ he wrote some time ago – some are silly, some are pretty funny, all are nice and short. (Louis Wu 13:52:16 UTC)

schnear25 discovered a ‘Halo comic’ (it’s more of a short story, or something, with a small piece of artwork to go along) at College Humor – pretty spot-on. Take a look!(Louis Wu 13:51:33 UTC)

Our old friend dogsounds has gotten in touch – he has a comic strip called ‘Avoid Spikes’ which hasn’t been about Halo… until recently. His graphic tablet died, so he’s resorted to Halo 3 screenshots to tell his story – so until a new tablet can be afforded, you’re likely to see a lot of…