Category: HBO

Bryan Young noticed a job listing at Microsoft (via Gamasutra, posted last week) for a “Creative Director – building a new Halo universe”. The listing links to a job description that’s several months old, and doesn’t specify Halo explicitly – recycled description, or just an unfilled position?(Louis Wu 13:06:25 UTC)

Couple of news stories about E3 wrapups of interest to the Halo community – Eurogamer will have an interview with Don Mattrick tomorrow, but today they’ve got a teaser in which Harold Ryan (Bungie President) is quoted as laughing off the cancelled project announcement (thanks, Peter Brown). And TechRadar UK talked to Brian Jarrard of…

PlanetXbox360 gave Halo Wars the nod as the Best Strategy Game in its Best of E3 2008 Awards. Nice! (“No New Halo Game” was also a contender in the “Biggest Surprise” category.)(Louis Wu 12:40:14 UTC)

Major Nelson posted his standard LIVE activity list last night, for the week of July 14… and Halo 3 tops the list for the first time since the week of January 21. Folks have been discussing this (on our forum, among other places), and nobody has a really good explanation as to why (well, why…

Ross Mills noticed a story on Joystiq explaining that Microsoft has just made the Games For Windows Live service free (it used to be $50/year, just like Xbox LIVE). This means you can play Halo 2 PC online for nada. w00t!(Louis Wu 21:50:51 UTC)

Okay… this isn’t Halo-related, but it’s still very cool, and the GUY is Halo-related, so… Craig Mullins has done a TON of Bungie-inspired and Bungie-commissioned artwork, and has built a pretty enormous following in this community. (You can see his Marathon-related work here, and his Halo-related work here.) Latekid noticed that he’s selling an oil…

Hawty McBloggy wrote to point out that the Halo Corpse Alphabet is finished… complete with a font. Amazing! Check it out. (Please, though – go easy on the font usage; it’s very cool, but I could see it getting… annoying pretty quickly.)(Louis Wu 20:52:44 UTC)

Kotaku has posted an article detailing the control scheme of Halo Wars – go see if it makes sense to you! Thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 20:46:59 UTC)

Al7eredBeasT stopped in with pictures of an infection form plushie he made this weekend… cute!(Louis Wu 17:42:56 UTC)

Okay, I’m confused. Back in March, Mindless Distortion released Gray Team Transmission One. A week later, they released Gray Team Transmission Two Trailer, and followed that up about two months later with Gray Team: Transmission 2 – Part 1. As far as I can tell, they never released part 2 – the next video in…

Wow. onebitrocket pointed out this artwork of an Elite (and some Brutes), done by Chase-SC2 over on DeviantART. Amazing! (He also did a pretty nice ODST image.) Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 13:47:46 UTC)

Back in January, we mentioned a ‘Build a Spartan’ flash app created by Scotty GEE – it wasn’t done, but it was pretty nice. We just got word from Scotty – it’s done now. Very cool! Go play with it. You can even take a screenshot when you’re happy with your creation!(Louis Wu 13:43:58 UTC)

Red vs Blue: Reconstruction Chapter 8 has been posted over at Rooster Teeth – this series just keeps getting better. These guys are taking machinima to a whole new level – I’m not sure how long I can say that about each new episode, but I really am impressed. Go watch. (I’ll echo BlueNinja’s “wow”.)…

Heh – over at Tied the Leader, you’ll find a fun exposition on the woes of wearing Recon in Matchmaking (made me smile), and a level-headed reminder that the subject we find ourselves up in arms about occasionally is, after all, only a game. Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 10:14:45 UTC)

Midni7ght posted a very high resolution (1900×1200) version of In Amber Clad flying through the Grand Canyon – no sound, but the camera angles actually gave me a moment of vertigo!(Louis Wu 10:13:56 UTC)

The Bungie.net blog posted a couple of items yesterday that were new to HBO. DigitalPh33r released a Director’s Commentary version of the first episode of Arby ‘n’ the Chief; he has a little trouble staying focused on what he’s saying at times, but in general, it’s an interesting look into how he works. And the…

Yesterday, Google Alerts brought me news of a new screenshot released by Predator5791 and highlighted by bs angel on her I <3 Halo 3 Screenshots website. I’m hesitant to point out specific screenshots on our front page, because… well, because there are millions of them out there, and once you start to spotlight individual shots,…

Bah. Hyokin sent along this screengrab from the ‘Five Long Years’ cinematic that Ensemble released to hype Halo Wars – it shows the Legendary emblem painted on the nose of some Pelicans. I don’t have high hopes for the whole ‘sticking to canon’ thing when UNSC aircraft, meeting Covenant forces for the very first time…

Kotaku talked to Phil Spencer and Shane Kim about Halo – seems to be a bit of spin about the botched announcement last week, but nothing was really said. The interviewer asked about Bungie’s new project, the Halo movie, Halo “Blue”, Peter Jackson’s project – and got positive but vague answers about all of them.…

Last night, we got a message from a pretty trustworthy Halo 3 player, discussing an incident that occurred in a game played a few minutes earlier. Before the veto countdown had finished, the opposite team sent messages to all players, and one of the recipients opened the image file included in the message – that…