Category: HBO

El Mayimbe let us know about the fifth (and final) piece of Kasra Farahani’s concept art from the project being put together by Stuart Beattie – this one shows off the destruction of the Pillar of Autumn, which blends in to the beginning of the first Halo game. Go take a look!(Louis Wu 22:49:38 UTC)

Elnea’s back – Halo Action Figure Theater #151 is now online. I’m not sure the Canadians are going to be happy. I laughed, though.(Louis Wu 20:04:16 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has been busy – she’s got three new Halo-related things for you to check out. The biggest is her writeup of the Bungie experience at PAX (great pics – and you should page back through her blog for lots more in the last few days), but there are also some gorgeous pictures of…

Last week, we mentioned an ode to Bungie from Bryan Simon – he’s back, with another piece. This time, he’s offering Bungie the chance to burn out their frustrations with fan anger on him… go listen. Thanks, Stacey. (Louis Wu 14:37:00 UTC)

At 5:30 on Sunday afternoon, Bungie got rid of a huge number of boxes of schwag that had been taking up room in storage somewhere; they did it by tossing stuff out to a large crowd in front of their booth. It’s sort of amazing nobody got hurt – some of those boxes have really…

NeoGAF’s Kibbles was amused by ScrewAttack’s “Hard News” segment in which Assembly was described this way: “It looks like a remake of Midship, the popular Halo 2 map that a lot of people love” (2:05 in). Before you go insane, it looks nothing like Midship, except for the color scheme. (Louis Wu 13:57:00 UTC)

Maxim posted a list of the “13 Most Badass Video Game Power Suits” – they’re not all armored, some are literally power suits (pinstripes and all), but Master Chief’s Mjolnir armor made it to number 12. Thanks, NickLee808.(Louis Wu 13:56:41 UTC)

Cody Miller noticed a Master Chief costume in Hollywood yesterday. His speculation is clearly a joke, but it’s a nice shot! (Louis Wu 13:56:11 UTC)

TDG, over at NeoGAF, noticed a pretty high-quality film of Assembly on GameVideos – the gameplay’s nothing special, but the view of the map is the best I’ve seen on the web. (You can download a 720p version of it from that page.) (Louis Wu 13:55:24 UTC)

Al7eredBeasT posted a pattern for creating your own infection form plushie, along with a tutorial for building it. Swing by if you want one of these cuties!(Louis Wu 13:54:24 UTC)

This weekend, Z sent along a link to a tritage featuring MoNsTeR, vFoFo, and Tags II (Tags II did the editing); it’s more than 10 minutes long, but it’s got a lot of fun plays, and plenty of slick editing. Just under 200 mb – an enjoyable watch. Check it out! (Louis Wu 13:53:43 UTC)

Okay, I thought i could come home and clear out the mail queue – but I didn’t count on the plane trip from hell. I’m pretty lucky I made the drive from the airport in one piece – there’s no way I can get coherent news on the front page. More tomorrow, I guess…(Louis Wu…

Xbox 360 Fanboy’s Dustin Burg posted a hands-on impression article of Assembly over at Joystiq – swing by and read the details. There’s a short video clip, as well. (More news coming later today; I’m posting this from the DFW airport as I wait for my connecting flight.)(Louis Wu 12:16:24 UTC)

kr-1426 stopped by the main forum to announce that the HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week has been posted over on the Fan Fiction forum – go see what’s what this week!(Louis Wu 12:13:26 UTC)

More video and stills from PAX – Devin Olsen posted some fun stuff on our forum (Lots of Bungie people, playing Assembly, some intriguing Covenant symbols found around the map), and QuickTactical posted his set of photos of the event over at Halogrid. Go read about it!(Louis Wu 15:05:14 UTC)

According to LoneRanger 2.5, Lukems joined in on a live version of the 1UP Yours podcast at PAX yesterday. I haven’t been able to listen (crappy hotel connection), but you can grab a copy from 1Up to see if there’s any juicy Halo stuff in there!(Louis Wu 15:04:38 UTC)

Nabsuh announced a teaser trailer for Prophecy Episode 4 – this one is completely animated. More information about the project is available here. Jump over to YouTube to watch!(Louis Wu 15:04:13 UTC)

UNSC Trafalgar found an article that looks at the most expensive video games ever made. Halo 3 comes in at number 5.(Louis Wu 15:03:42 UTC)

DigitalPh33r has released part four of his Guide to Making Halo 3 Machinima – this one covers gameplay sequences, and saving them as films. Swing over to Machinima.com to download or stream it. Thanks, UnSilentSlayer.(Louis Wu 15:03:12 UTC)

H3MB pointed out a new video from DTHClan called ‘Halo 3 Mythbusters, Episode 1’ – they go through a number of ‘myths’ of actions that you might or might not actually be able to do in Halo 3 matchmaking, and test them. Some of these are pretty interesting!(Louis Wu 15:02:44 UTC)