Category: HBO

Hawty McBloggy is kicking off a new Friday tradition: this one is called What If, Halo Style. Round 1 asks the question “What if you could add absolutely any weapon you wanted to the current arsenal available in Halo 3… What would it be?” Swing by and see what others would add – and throw…

TTL Demag0gue announced the posting of Reclaimer 72 – things are getting clearer.(Louis Wu 14:57:18 UTC)

Bzerker01 let us know that Outpost: Isil Episode 8 has been posted over at Treeskunk Productions. It becomes a little clearer why the outpost is so understaffed…(Louis Wu 14:55:02 UTC)

Vegechan got us a higher-res copy of his Halo tribute trailer (we pointed out the YouTube version yesterday) – you can now download 640×480 versions from us in this post. They’re worth it! (Louis Wu 14:43:16 UTC)

The Social let us know that the Halo 3 RPG they’ve built is having its own ‘official double xp weekend’ to match Bungie’s. (Halo3RPG’s is Team Melee, as well.) If this doesn’t appeal to you, they’ve got a number of other ranked and unranked hoppers – Figure 8 has 8 teams of 4, and Big…

Only 5 new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – but two are pretty monstrous. Go read! (Louis Wu 14:41:54 UTC)

Vegechan created a Halo tribute trailer using music from 300 and footage from many sources, including Halo game trailers, cutscenes, and more. Has a nicely epic feel to it.(Louis Wu 23:41:33 UTC)

The Escapist’s latest episode of Kung Fu Grip is entitled ‘Star Wars: A New Halo’, and looks at how the Republic might have fared had the Stormtroopers been replaced with Spartans. Stop-motion theater at its finest! Thanks, Speedhuntr.(Louis Wu 23:37:40 UTC)

Video Games Live just posted a press release – their album debuted at #10 on the Billboard Charts. Wow! Congrats to Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, and the entire VGL team! If you buy a copy, you’ll hear the Slovak Symphony Orchestra playing the Halo Suite, and a bunch of other great music.(Louis Wu 21:56:31…

A few hours ago, the latest Double XP weekend went live – this week, it’s Team Melee. What’s Team Melee? It’s a playlist loaded with Gravity Hammers and Swords! Three teams of three meet to beat the crap out of each other. AdjustantReflex gave us the heads-up.(Louis Wu 21:51:37 UTC)

According to an article in Eurogamer, Bungie is “very excited” about Halo Wars – they talked to Damian Isla, AI Programming Lead for Halo 2 and Halo 3. Positive news, for fans worried that Ensemble might be taking liberties! Thanks, gunluva. While you’re at Eurogamer, check out this little piece as well – Isla discusses…

Veegie pointed out a Halo Chopper – not the Brute one – being modeled over at Threedy Forums by rubenvoorhees. Looks pretty cool!(Louis Wu 10:19:07 UTC)

Spartanx5 noticed an article on IGN that comes up with their Top 10 reasons Halo 3 is Back on Top (of the Xbox LIVE leaderboards). Some are silly, some are solid. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 10:14:30 UTC)

Praxis Solomen noticed an auction on eBay for a pen, collected during the 2008 San Diego ComicCon, which is labeled “The Battle Begins Fall 2008” and lights up. The title is ‘Halo Movie Pen’ – there’s no information about where this name came from. (Seems more likely that we’re talking about something like the Peter…

The Game Critics Awards Nominees have been posted for 2008 (these are awards for best of show at E3 every year). Halo Wars is up for Best Strategy Game. Results to be announced on August 5!(Louis Wu 20:23:13 UTC)

According to Bungie’s sawnose, Halo PC has received a new ‘pre-release hotfix’ that he’d like some community help testing before they get rolled into a real patch for auto-update. If you manage a Halo PC server, swing by his forum post and read about what’s been changed, and then grab the patch and give him…

Very interesting read over at The Cut Scene – it’s a pre-E3 interview with Bungie’s Harold Ryan, discussing how Halo has fit into the functioning of the studio for the past few years. There are tons of little tidbits that should be fascinating to anyone who wonders how Bungie does what it does, or why…

OddGodHMK continues his Boring Comics storyline from yesterday – this is getting weirder. (Louis Wu 19:00:34 UTC)

It’s Wednesday, so TTL Demag0gue tells us it’s time for Reclaimer 71 – and the Reclaimer learns, finally, what happened at Outpost 77.(Louis Wu 13:45:41 UTC)

BlueNinja has updated his Views From the Edge website with four new panoramas – he’s shooting for better technique over quantity this time around. Go see how he did!(Louis Wu 13:45:26 UTC)