Category: HBO

Dragoncoals let us know that ForgeHub has announced the winners of its Best of Forge Spring/Summer 08 competition. Congrats to all the finalists! (Louis Wu 14:36:04 UTC)

Gamepro put together a roster of the 8 Most Powerful Video Game Studios. Bungie made the list, on the strength of its Halo products. Thanks to Black Six for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 14:33:59 UTC)

Insabul pointed out Alliance: Episode 1, kicking off a new machinima series. Goals seem to be pretty ambitious – it remains to be seen if they’ll achieve these goals.(Louis Wu 14:30:31 UTC)

H3Press and Injured Knee Productions have gotten together for a contest – prizes go to the best music video using only footage from IKProductions.net. Go read the full rules, and check out the prizes, at H3Press! Thanks, Mike Reiss.(Louis Wu 13:49:38 UTC)

Back in November 2006, There’s Something about Halo 2 was released on Newgrounds – a flash parody of the Halo 2 storyline. Apparently, the Halo 3 version was cancelled – but one part, The Covenant, was released recently by its creator. Too bad we can’t see the whole thing! Thanks, Psychophan7.(Louis Wu 13:25:30 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue announced the availability of Reclaimer 74 – the Reclaimer decides to take a more aggressive role in dealing with the Master Chief.(Louis Wu 12:38:45 UTC)

Wow, fun. vshields ash managed to get a pair of Gold Elites at the end of Assault on the Control Room, in the original Halo. That’s a lot of work! Post at HBO | post at High Impact Halo | vid at FileFront(Louis Wu 12:33:33 UTC)

Roger Wilco ran across a website for Broken Line Studios – a group putting together a Homeworld mod based on Halo. Some really awesome models! Here’s hoping they don’t get a C&D.(Louis Wu 12:27:51 UTC)

Injunfett pointed out that G4TV has announced their G-Phoria 2008 Game of the Year… and Halo 3 came away with the title. (It was really, really close.)(Louis Wu 12:24:17 UTC)

The first of the Weta 1-of-a-kind silver statues (we discussed ’em here, with high-res versions of the silver images here) went on sale on eBay late last night – you’ve still got nine and a half days to decide what it’s worth to you, but the Master Chief and Grunts statue is already up to…

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked 39 is up – fishing needs… fish.(Louis Wu 16:23:39 UTC)

This should have been up yesterday – totally my fault it wasn’t. ZZoMBiE13 sent along Another Halo Comic Strip – where could this strip branch out? The possibilities are endless!(Louis Wu 16:19:37 UTC)

bubba28871 recorded the Halo set from the Video Games Live concert in San Diego last week – it includes on-stage time with MsValentine, a cosplayer we’ve featured many times, who performed the Cortana bits. Go watch!(Louis Wu 15:48:23 UTC)

Morpheus stopped by to let us know that Real Custom Games has posted ‘A Man and His Probe’ – raising a Probe can be difficult! (I’m actually curious to know how many people will stumble across this news post while looking for porn…)(Louis Wu 15:02:41 UTC)

If you didn’t get enough of Damian Isla in the GamesIndustry interview we just told you about, swing by Gamasutra this morning – they have a writeup of a keynote Isla gave at the recent Develop conference. (We mentioned this talk back in June.) It’s a pretty interesting look at how the AI in the…

GamesIndustry.biz posted an interview with Bungie’s Damian Isla – it’s a really interesting piece. Isla holds forth on Bungie’s post-independence enthusiasm, on the state of first-person shooters today, on the differences in design philosophy between games like Halo, CoD4, and Bioshock. There are subtle hints that Bungie might be working on a game that has…

Hawty McBloggy has posted her Top 10 Forge Art Halo 3 Screenshots – go check out the creativity of Forgers everywhere!(Louis Wu 14:28:51 UTC)

Major Nelson confirmed that Halo 3 is on top of the Xbox LIVE leaderboard, for the third straight week – this is starting to not be news any more. MyGEN has a piece looking at WHY Halo 3 is back on top – and that’s more newsworthy. (This is actually the first of a two-part…

Bungie’s Blog (and Halo 3 Academy’s ryu9921) both let us know that the Bungie Favorites collection is currently being populated by some of the Halo 3 Academy’s goodies. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 14:26:50 UTC)

I saw this a while ago, but somehow forgot to post it. Ohio band Hawthorne Heights is participating in the Game With Fame series on Xbox LIVE – find them tomorrow, playing Halo 3, and then send your experience in to Xbox.com!(Louis Wu 14:26:28 UTC)