Category: HBO

According to Next Generation, several keynote speakers for this year’s Develop conference have been announced – and among them is Damian Isla (AI Programming Lead for Halo 2 and Halo 3), who will discuss “Halo AI Retrospective: Eight Years of Work on 30 Seconds of Fun”. The conference takes place in Brighton (in the UK),…

FireDragon04 sent word of Stiched (not a typo) – a bunch of silly skits and lots of teabagging. He’s looking for feedback – leave a comment!(Louis Wu 14:27:09 UTC)

ScrewAttack put together their Top Ten FPS Games Ever – Halo (the original) made it near the top. Many of the GameTrailers commenters find issues with the list – see what you think! Thanks, PHANTOMFIRE X.(Louis Wu 14:15:37 UTC)

Bryan Ojeda noticed that the University of Maryland’s Gamer Symphony Orchestra played the Halo 3 theme at last year’s Fall Concert – you can hear it on their website. (Forumgoers are giving it low marks; see if you agree!)(Louis Wu 14:13:28 UTC)

Luke Smith posted a note on Bungie.net explaining a small change on Xbox LIVE for folks with Bungie.net profiles – the seventh column symbol will appear automatically now, instead of having to be turned on explicitly. (You can still turn it off if you want.)(Louis Wu 22:00:34 UTC)

Crabbo let us know that Escape from Zanzibar has a new teaser up now – go watch!(Louis Wu 21:58:46 UTC)

Reconstruction Chapter 3 has been posted for Sponsors over at the Red vs Blue website – wait a little if you want the free version. “Did my dad die again?” I love Caboose. (Directory’s commentary coming later tonight, apparently.)(Louis Wu 18:03:56 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue pointed out Episode 53 of The Reclaimer – looks like Resplendent Legacy is happy to mess with our hero.(Louis Wu 14:32:55 UTC)

Adrenaline stumbled across a game called ‘Vulcan’, a top-down shooter that seems to take quite a few of its design features from a well-known FPS. It might provide a few minutes of entertainment…(Louis Wu 14:29:09 UTC)

DigitalPh33r has posted Part One of his Guide to Making Halo 3 Machinima – he won’t hold your hand, but he WILL tell you what not to do. 13 minutes long.(Louis Wu 14:05:13 UTC)

Jillybean’s being poetic again. Someone get the tissues.(Louis Wu 13:59:48 UTC)

TrueDarkFusion let us know that Part II of the Forging Retrospective is now online at Forge Hub – it’s a look at what Foundry brought to the Forging table. Go read!(Louis Wu 21:56:32 UTC)

Marc Swint, of Mindless Distortion Productions, let us know that they’ve released Gray Team: Transmission 3 – Relegation (Part 2) Trailer (yes, that’s a long title for the second half of a trailer), as well as a video update, which includes a mailbag segment. Go watch!(Louis Wu 18:43:01 UTC)

UNSC Trooper stopped by last night to point out an interview he conducted with William Dietz, the author of Halo: The Flood. Swing by the HBO Fan Fiction forum and hear from Mr. Dietz how he got started as an author, how he got involved with the Halo universe, and what he thinks about Fan…

ReleasetheMonk created a James-Bond-like trailer for a nonexistent movie using Halo cutscene footage. Go see!(Louis Wu 14:23:42 UTC)

Tyler let us know that Young Street Productions has released Forecast Episode 3 – there’s some funky love stuff going on, and the potential for a new character. And general meanness towards Craig. Go watch!(Louis Wu 18:04:34 UTC)

XMixMasterX stopped by to point out Mix Picks Week 6 – a bunch of new map reviews based on items he found on B.net. Go read!(Louis Wu 18:00:59 UTC)

Linda let us know that there’s a forum with some pretty neat pictures of Halo 3 action figure prototypes, some going back years. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 17:56:53 UTC)

As we mentioned a few days ago, the July episode of GamePro has a sizeable article on Halo Wars – and one of the things they discuss is the control scheme of the game. (This is what critics seem to be most skeptical about – many people don’t think you can create a control scheme…

Avateur kicked off the analysis of the cryptic content at the bottom of this week’s Update – you can read it over at args.bungie.org.(Louis Wu 14:46:18 UTC)