Category: HBO

Mike Riess, of H3Press, reminded us that the music video contest they kicked off in early August is closing in seven days – and they’ve only got 3 submissions so far. There are over $100 in prizes – your chances are pretty good if you submit something!(Louis Wu 15:02:19 UTC)

Last night, at their PAX Q&A panel, Rooster Teeth unveiled an amazing animated short showing off the Red vs Blue characters in a completely different context. They’re not ready to DO anything with this material yet (they’re in the feeling-out stages with various parties), so they’re not planning on putting it online any time soon……

MasterChief2829 found another couple of gameplay vids showing off Assembly gameplay – and Kotaku has one, too. I’m sure there’ll be more throughout the weekend.(Louis Wu 15:37:27 UTC)

The Seattle Times has a profile piece on Alexis “Mischief” Hebert, one of the Frag Dolls, in the context of her preparations for tomorrow’s 128-team Halo 3 tournament at PAX. Nice look into the online life of a frontline female gamer!(Louis Wu 15:36:59 UTC)

The folks at CrunchGear have put up a video walkthrough (er, runthrough? wanderthrough, with dying?) of one of their guys playing the new map while at PAX. Go look! Thanks go to DMFanella for the heads-up on the forum.(mnemesis 03:34:07 UTC)

The Bungie WWU is available over on B.Net. An introduction to a tale about Bungie’s Ultimate Frisbee team, a copy-and-paste of the PAX booth info we reported on earlier, and a bunch of pictures of Assembly. What’s Assembly, you say? Just a new map (remember the code name Purple Reign?) that folks who attend PAX…

And… that’s it for me today. PAX starts in a few hours, and it’s time to get moving! Enjoy your Friday, there are still some HBO folks on duty if you have news, I think. (We’ll certainly have a wrap-up article or two, but I’m not bringing a laptop to the show.) If you’re IN…

Tony ‘ubald’ Marcotte sent word of another new render he’s done – this one is a gorgeous shot of a ghost, riding off into a sunset. Go check it out in the gallery we’ve set up for him here!(Louis Wu 16:23:56 UTC)

Here’s one of the more unique uses of the Halo 3 lobby I’ve ever seen. TruthPastor SBG holds a pair of bible study classes on Monday nights, for his clan members (and anyone else interested) – obviously, only fifteen other people can participate in a single lobby at once, but in fact he’s run a…

Weta’s taking preorders on their Cortana Statue – $225 US, with the statue actually shipping 2nd quarter 2009. As an incentive for tying up your money for the next 6-9 months, they’re entering all preorders before September 30 into a drawing – win the drawing, and you might be flown down to Weta Studios and…

Eight new pieces are up for your reading pleasure in the Fan Fiction section today – go get ’em!(Louis Wu 15:14:58 UTC)

mattroe told us about a Halo 3 reference on the Australian comedy program Rove. I KNEW there were extras Bungie didn’t tell us about!(Louis Wu 11:11:13 UTC)

Kido Badtower stopped by to announce his machinima series ‘Willingly Insane’ – he’s already created 9 episodes of Season 1, and 4 episodes of Season 2, but he’s remaking the Season 1 vids. All eps are hosted at YouTube. Go see what you think!(Louis Wu 11:08:52 UTC)

Okay, so back in February, we posted a news bit about one of our readers who speculated that an announcement by Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford was Halo-related; his original post is no longer available on his website, but Archive.org has a copy. This info was updated, sort of, in May – but nothing really materialized. Well,…

Topless Robot (relatively safe for work, despite the name) has put up a ‘Top 10 Sexiest Action Figures Ever Made’ – and a certain naked-and-glowing female AI from the Halo series made it to #3 on the list. Thanks, xupaosso.(Louis Wu 17:06:36 UTC)

Bryan Simon wrote an ode to Bungie and Halo 3 – you can find it on YouTube. Fan love rocks! Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:58:45 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue has posted today’s episode of Reclaimer – Episode 81 shows Viper trying to shut down the virus in the slipspace array. Sometimes things don’t go as planned…(Louis Wu 11:26:02 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has a followup to last week’s love triangle amongst Cortana, a Big Daddy, and a Hunter – as well as a new piece of Fan Art devoted to your favorite blue AI. Check it out!(Louis Wu 11:21:55 UTC)

The Treeskunk crew has put together Outpost: Isil Episode 9 – Full Frontal. You have to wonder how the two teams actually still have living members left 9 episodes in… lots of death and destruction here. You can download it in a lot of different formats, or watch it streaming (in a lot of different…

Last night, Bungie released a brand-new podcast – it’s a monster 80-minute piece of work full of jokes, interviews, and bears. Paul Russell is the special guest, Shishka discusses the playlist changes coming up next month, and security expert Jerome Simpson comes by for a mini-interview. Shishka puts up with ribbing from Sketch and Luke,…