Category: HBO

nomis78 announced a few new panoramas, along with some observations about the process, at his new Wordpress site. Go look! (Louis Wu 14:15:56 UTC)

leftysrevenge pointed out Kung Fu Grip’s discovery of the lost audition tapes for GTA IV’s Niko. As left.e points out, it is slightly NSFW (for language, and naked barbies)… but Halo DOES play a part. (Louis Wu 14:15:12 UTC)

Shishka stopped by yesterday to point out the online portfolio of Chris Wood, the Art Director for Certain Affinity’s Blastacular Map Pack for Halo 2 (Desolation and Tombstone). There are some neat shots of the maps themselves (including concept art), along with tons of non-Halo material – good stuff! Go look. (Louis Wu 14:14:03 UTC)

Dennis Powers wrote to say that Shipwrecked Episode 24 is up – things aren’t going so well for our marines. (Louis Wu 14:13:14 UTC)

A few days ago, we mentioned a thread with writeups from pooberry’s DixieLAN event – pooberry added his own yesterday, but since he started a new thread, I feel obliged to point it out again. Silly man… but a silly man with an overactive camera. LOTS of pics. (Louis Wu 14:12:20 UTC)

Looks like the Fan Fiction dry spell is definitely over – there are 12 new pieces for you for reading over there today. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 14:10:21 UTC)

Bungie.Net has come through the far side of another overhaul. Tagged news, blog-style formatting, Silverlight media player, and so much more! Go check it out! Also, Legendary Brawl is up as this weekend’s Double EXP playlist.(mnemesis 19:49:57 UTC)

Whoops, I saw this yesterday and forgot to post it. UNSC_Trooper mentioned on our forum that the FanFic Pick of the Week has been posted. Go check ’em out!(mnemesis 17:42:44 UTC)

Our last mention of the CollegeHumor-created Halo movie was back at the end of April; it’s been released now, and can be viewed on the CollegeHumor website. Halo 3 Homicide Detective follows a team investigating a mysterious death… there are some interesting notes on the blog of the director. Thanks to all the people who…

Google Alerts pointed out a movie called ‘Halo 3 Master Chief in Mario 5 (Part 2)’ – and yes, there are a lot more (linked in the description of the film). I haven’t watched them all – but the idea seems clever!(Louis Wu 16:00:03 UTC)

Chris Page put together a mock commercial based on a problem experienced by many Halo players. Go watch it at YouTube!(Louis Wu 15:57:45 UTC)

FireDragon04 let us know about a new project for which a trailer has just been released – it has no name yet, but it ends with the message ‘Simulating Soon’. Go watch!(Louis Wu 15:57:20 UTC)

Worth Playing has a piece on the “US Open”, one of the walk-in tournaments leading to the building of Team USA for the World Cyber Games. Go read about how to get there, and what you can win! The games kick off on May 31 in New York City.(Louis Wu 15:56:05 UTC)

Last week, we mentioned a newspaper article in which Jen Taylor stated that she didn’t get any fan mail related to her voice work as Cortana; some decided that might be because nobody knew where to send it to. Xorian did some leg (finger?) work, and got a mailing address, courtesy of her agent. Feel…

The US Army MWR (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation) is hosting a series of tournaments open to single soldiers in selected locations – see the promotion page for a list of locations and prizes!(Louis Wu 15:36:43 UTC)

There’s a new Bungie Publication over on Bungie.net, Halo 3 Flood Alien Level Autopsy by Environment Artist Vic DeLeon. Take a look, it’s a massive (150mb) amount of information spread over PDFs, PowerPoint presentations and a couple of videos. Very interesting and in-depth stuff, with plenty of humor interspersed throughout to keep you interested. Jordan117…

Marc Swint wrote this morning to let us know that Gray Team Transmission 2 is complete. Too complete, in fact, so much so that they’ve decided split it into two episodes. You can watch it and read about it on their blog, and if you missed the first one you can catch it here.(KP 17:57:19…

pete_the_duck dropped by the forum earlier to show off some beautiful panoramics he made. Nice!(mnemesis 14:42:27 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue stopped by to announce Reclaimer #48 – back to the Reclaimer. Check it out!(mnemesis 14:37:26 UTC)

Digikid dropped us a note to let us know that Spriggs Episode 10 is available (in both Divx and YouTube varieties). Go check it out!(mnemesis 14:33:04 UTC)