Category: HBO

The Halo 3 ‘Believe’ campaign continues to rack up advertising awards – the latest is a pair of Gran Prix Lions (Film and Integrated) won at the 55th International Advertising Festival in Cannes last night. Check sample writeups at Adweek and AdvertisingAge.(Louis Wu 20:15:39 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has kicked off the Halo Corpse Alphabet, a rather macabre project aimed at reproducing the standard English alphabet in… well, dead Spartans. The news story shows off an example of an X. Go see what you can contribute!(Louis Wu 19:36:56 UTC)

Tyler sent word that Forecast the Series Episode 4 is now online – you can read about it on their website, or watch it on YouTube. Folks are getting pretty creative with the machinimatography! (On second thought, there’s not much to read – just go watch it.)(Louis Wu 19:36:10 UTC)

Inside Halo 18 has a really short recap of MLG San Diego, the top 5 plays of the week, and some machinima highlights – go watch! Thanks, Bob 116.(Louis Wu 16:55:19 UTC)

Heh – the Plumsted, NJ public library has discovered that you can attract a little-seen demographic (young adults) by hosting a Halo lanfest. (The article mentions that young MALE adults were brought in – but the picture accompanying the story shows a mixed audience.) The question is, are they checking out books before they leave?(Louis…

News.com.au has a story about Supanova, a science fiction convention in Sydney, Australia this weekend. The picture gallery has a couple of nice shots of a fan’s Master Chief costume.(Louis Wu 12:44:19 UTC)

UNSC Trooper pointed out that the Fan Fic Pick of the Week is up over at the HBOFF forum. Go see what (ENS) Rabid_Gallagher came up with as the top few stories of the batch! (Louis Wu 12:43:42 UTC)

Last night, Bungie posted their Weekly Update (available, as always, in our Weekly Update Archive in addition to Bungie.net), and it contains a monster writeup of the Halo 3 Battle Rifle, and how it was designed to work. (This week saw a lot of discussion around the net about how the battle rifle is ‘broken’…

You might or might not remember link4044 – he built a really cool Assault Rifle last year. He’s back – and this time, he’s putting together a Legendary Crest. It looks incredible! Check it out.(Louis Wu 20:43:03 UTC)

MLGPro.com has posted the MLG/ESPN Top Ten #4 – this one is completely culled from the MLG Meadowlands tournament, and you’ll see some great pro playing. Take a look!(Louis Wu 19:23:08 UTC)

Wow. NOKYARD sent word that Pahis (Pahat Pojat) has done some amazing Campaign work – first up, he beat the Million Point Challenge using just three levels; The Ark (443,175), The Covenant (415,230), and Cortana (168,075). (This blows away the first instance of that challenge being beaten, back in October – that one needed six…

Chairleg Productions has posted a podcast discussing some of the special effects and how they took care of them in their latest production, Console Wars. (We mentioned it on Tuesday.) If you haven’t seen the video yet, you should – since our newspost, which contained links for an SD flash version and a downloadable HD…

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another round of Friday Caption Fun – this time, I’m guessing Hawty McBloggy is going to get a LOT of sex-while-driving jokes as submissions. Go see what you can come up with! (Louis Wu 14:27:02 UTC)

xMixMasterx is back with a new set of Mix Picks for you – culled from Bungie community map submissions, this is a list of four maps with descriptions and reviews. Always nice to have someone sifting for gold!(Louis Wu 14:23:35 UTC)

RandomCTG stopped by again yesterday with some new sculptures. (We saw a few items back in April – the Brute stuff is new here, along with the Elite figurine, and the Bioshock Big Daddy has been finished.) Check ’em out – pretty nice work!(Louis Wu 14:22:31 UTC)

Scruss let us know that the Septagon, a Bungie.net group, has created the Septagon Gazette, a biweekly Bungie/Halo paper. Scruss and Just Another Fan report on happenings in the Bungie community, in the style of the Onion. There are currently two episodes available for download, from MediaFire – the June 9 issue is 3.6 mb,…

If you’re looking for a noise-cancelling PC gaming headset, you could do much worse than the Plantronics .Audio 350 Halo 2 unit – right now, Buy.com is selling it for $10, with free shipping. (If you, for some reason, have a problem with the Halo 2 branding, you could, I suppose, buy the NON-branded version…

It’s almost like a Fan Fiction renaissance – fifteen new pieces this week, and many of the submitters are old-timers! Check it out.(Louis Wu 13:53:47 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy was the first (that I know of) to notice that the Bungie Store is no longer online. Be patient, and a replacement location for buying your favorite Bungie schwag will be forthcoming!(Louis Wu 23:22:27 UTC)

Not listed on Bungie.net, yet, but this week’s Double XP playlist is Team Snipers – and it’s live. Go shoot someone in the head!(Louis Wu 20:25:14 UTC)