Category: HBO

Crispy Gamer’s James Fudge pointed us to this news bit about a Bollywood movie that apparently revolves around a fictional designer of Halo 3. As CG says, the trailer mentioned in the article has no Halo content at all… so we’ll have to take their word for it. (A Google search turns up a bunch…

Earlier this week, Bungie’s Hao Chen was at SIGGRAPH, the technical computer graphics conference, as an instructor in the ‘Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games’ class. ATI has posted the proceedings of the conference course notes for his work, ‘Lighting and Material of Halo 3’, on their Technical Publications page. (It’s currently…

Hawty McBloggy has posted What If, Halo Style: Round 3 over on her site. There are results from last week’s question (a ridiculous number of people want Blood Gulch back), plus a new question, asking you about armor permutations. Go read and comment!(Louis Wu 10:15:16 UTC)

Weta has put the final silver Halo statue on eBay – the gorgeous Halo 3 Cortana jumped to $1,275 in the first six hours of its listing. (Reserve has not been met yet.) As with previous auctions, you can get a high-res look at the workmanship on our gallery page – and if you check…

SonofMacPhisto beat TTL Demag0gue in announcing Reclaimer 77 – Reticent Mystery and the Reclaimer have begun to become one. Things are gettin’ funky!(Louis Wu 09:46:43 UTC)

There’s a fascinating inside view at the development of the Halo 3 Believe diorama, as told by the ad agency that put it all together, over at Shoot Online. They couldn’t get art assets from Bungie, so they got them from McFarlane. They were able to repurpose scale models from Aliens to save some time…

Comic Book Resources has posted a review of Halo: Uprising #3 – it’s a bit kinder than most of the opinions we mentioned yesterday. (Louis Wu 09:30:38 UTC)

Just four new pieces this week in the Fan Fiction section – but there are some familiar names there…(Louis Wu 09:26:03 UTC)

It’s Thursday, so it’s time for Double XP Weekend to begin – this week, it’s Grifball. From now until Monday morning at 2 am PT, you can get your fill of hammers and bombs!(Louis Wu 18:18:51 UTC)

So, I’ve never heard of “Mighty Muggs” before, but apparently, they’re a style of action figure – and someone at Etsy is painting custom versions, including a Master Chief. Thanks to GadgetHeat for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 16:59:56 UTC)

If you live in Vancouver, BC, you’ve got a chance to play Halo on the big screen, whenever you want. Apparently, Cineplex Entertainment is going to be offering two-hour blocks of time in their theaters, outside of normal movie viewing showtimes, when a full surround-sound theater can be rented for $179. Get 16 friends together,…

Not really Halo-related, but a boon for Bungie fans – HaLo2FrEeEk has put together a Bungie Webcam image archiver and will be offering the images at some point in the future. If you have suggestions for new functionality, let him know!(Louis Wu 13:28:24 UTC)

Dragoncoals pointed out a video on YouTube promoting a Bungie.net Group that wants weapon-lowering to be enabled in Halo 3 on Xbox LIVE (currently, you can only do it offline). While I believe that the goal is not one that can be accomplished by this sort of lobbying, the demonstration in this video (the same…

IGN wrote up a short review of Halo: Uprising #3, released nationwide yesterday. They weren’t impressed. (You can get some other reviews right on our own forum – Neloms was the first, but there are comments throughout the thread.) (Louis Wu 13:20:21 UTC)

Bungie has released REAL versions of both the G-Phoria acceptance speech vid and the Edge acceptance speech vid – up to 720p versions. What are you waiting for?(Louis Wu 23:59:06 UTC)

mendicantbias00 has put up a collection of screenshots and panoramas – swing by Breaking Boundaries to see the goods!(Louis Wu 19:08:22 UTC)

Another Game with Fame in Halo 3 coming up – this time it’s the band Jet Black Stare, and they’ll be online looking for competition on August 16. Read about it at Xbox.com!(Louis Wu 19:05:31 UTC)

Last night, Weta posted the third of five one-of-a-kind silverplated statues – Master Chief and Flood is up to $810, with nine and a half days left. You can keep track of all the Weta statues on their eBay Store page – 4 days left on the Master Chief and Grunts, a week on Master…

TTL Demag0gue announced that Reclaimer 76 is live – the explanation of how Reticent Mystery works continues.(Louis Wu 11:57:07 UTC)