Category: HBO

The Discovery Channel’s “I Love the Whole World” commercial is a favorite for folks looking to remake icons in the Halo universe – we’ve already mentioned a couple of instances of this (here and here). I ran across another one yesterday, though, that I thought did a great job with picking relevant clips. It’s old…

Wow, that stings – in the midst of an article at News.com.au about how more Australians search for gaming links than for porn, there’s a nasty little shot at Halo 3:There are more searches for Call Of Duty 4 than Halo 3 in Australia and the UK, most likely because it is a far superior…

Costume Supercenter, a national chain of costume stores, has released its “Top 10 Halloween Costumes for 2008” – and Halo 3’s Master Chief Jumpsuit made the list. Expect to see a raft of Spartans this October!(Louis Wu 13:55:29 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy noticed a Halo 3-themed custom Guitar Hero controller on eBay – current bid is $26, with five and a half days to go. Rock out as the Master Chief! (Louis Wu 13:54:24 UTC)

I’m not sure this is really a surprise… but it might be the first time I’ve seen it printed. eddie m found a writeup for the Leipzig Games Convention (in German) that described Halo Wars as “the first console title of the series,” implying a chain of sequels already in the planning stages. I suppose…

The Multiplayer Blog over at MTV.com has an article discussing what video game box art would look like if they showed the same sort of credits that movies have. A bit too busy for my tastes… but it’s an interesting discussion. It’s here because Halo is one of their examples. Thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 18:03:16 UTC)

We’ve mentioned an upcoming project from Dream053 a couple of times (in April and May) – he’s back again, with a third audio clip, and again, it shows quite a bit of promise. If you want to follow along with development, they’ve started up a website.(Louis Wu 14:36:17 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue announced that Reclaimer 79 has been posted – and the picture gets bigger.(Louis Wu 13:47:53 UTC)

The see-sawing has begun – according to Major Nelson’s LIVE activity list, Call of Duty 4 was the most-played game last week. Our forum denizens haven’t come up with a good explanation for why this came about. News? Not news? You got me – I’d say no, but a lot of people are discussing it.(Louis…

Sterfrye36 has been writing Fan Fiction for the HBOFF section for more than five years – and he attributes his acceptance at an Ivy League college to this pursuit. Go read the details!(Louis Wu 13:46:12 UTC)

GeneticSpartan stopped by yesterday with word of a Halo Music Video set to Coldplay’s Viva La Vida – I thought it was fantastic. He included a couple of streaming links, and we’ve added some extra download links. Watch this! (Louis Wu 13:28:26 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy continues her Fan Art Spotlight on Cortana – sort of. This week, it’s a series of pics, and Cortana plays only a small (though critical) role. Nice work!(Louis Wu 13:27:38 UTC)

OddGodHMK has updated Boring Comics with another Halo-related strip – in fact, this one’s an HBO-related strip. I laughed.(Louis Wu 13:26:57 UTC)

Tied the Leader is back – there’s a highlight reel of some of their finest moments in matchmaking for the month of July. It was a lot of fun to watch! Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 15:13:57 UTC)

vociferous has a new piece up over at Ascendant Justice – Headstones Pushed Aside looks at one of the more interesting enemies you face in the Halo series. It ties together information from the games, the terminals within the games, and outside sources like the Iris campaign last summer to bring you what is likely…

Rooster Teeth has released Chapter 11 of Red vs Blue: Reconstruction – it’s getting harder and harder every week to point out how this series has fantastic production values and top-notch effects – but every week, it proves it’s still there at the top of the Halo machinima heap. The Reds and the Blues are…

Hawty McBloggy has a couple of fun collections for you. On her main blog, you’ll find “You’re Doing It Really, Really Wrong” – this is a set of screenshots that should make you smile, assuming you haven’t burned out on this internet meme. (Oddball and Intimidation were two I hadn’t seen before, and got chuckles…

IGN has posted a ‘Preview’ of the Halo 3 Steel Spartan variant of the Kotobukiya Bubble-shielded figure – mostly, it’s just a lot of screenshots… but it’s a great figure. And while we’re doing action figure reviews, Superheroes Base has a writeup of the McFarlane Brute Stalker.(Louis Wu 12:48:39 UTC)

Fyrewulff posted a design doc for a ‘game’ played with Halo 3, but with a pretty involved backend. It’s hard to explain – go read the details, and give him some feedback!(Louis Wu 12:47:57 UTC)

Last week, Kotaku posted an ‘unboxing’ of a set of Jasman Halo 3 Plasma Pistols – a series of photos showing off the goods. They followed it up yesterday with an ‘Impressions’ article, discussing the actual gameplay, and including a movie. If you’re a laser tag afficionado, this seems to be a nice way to…