Category: HBO

Black Six pointed out that Develop 100 has a list of the top 100 most successful game studios in the world (based on 2007 retail revenues in the UK – go figure). Bungie sits at #8. Not bad! (It’s an odd list; it focuses on individual studios, rather than companies. EA, for example, has 9…

Hawty McBloggy has taken the responses from last week’s challenge (“come up with a good ending to “You know you play too much Halo when…”) and turned them into a quiz. Go take it!(Louis Wu 14:58:20 UTC)

GamesBond007 noticed a rather odd auction on eBay – it’s a Halo 1 Cortana figure, from Joyride… but it’s red, not purple (and the eyes are yellow). It’s described as a rare prototype – but I don’t know any way to confirm its authenticity. (That doesn’t mean it’s not worth buying; it could very well…

When you’re an artist, you get your own parking space. Even if you have to make it. RVideo discovered one for Chris Barrett on the tarmac outside The Pit. (Louis Wu 14:44:08 UTC)

Harabek let us know that Pre-Game Lobby Episode 2 is out – the lovable collection of Matchmaking misfits are back, and learning skills like trashtalking, genital-building, and custom Achievement creation. Go watch!(Louis Wu 14:32:05 UTC)

GeneticSpartan dropped by to announce a trailer for his new movie, ‘The Prodigious Permutation’. Nice camera work!(Louis Wu 14:18:49 UTC)

Over at Rampancy.net, Jonathan Churchill has posted a transcription of the Halo main theme, in PDF format. (You’ll need to be signed in to download it.)(Louis Wu 14:09:32 UTC)

The Fan Fiction queue was light this week – just three new pieces. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 14:05:54 UTC)

As a number of people noticed last night, HBO played Bungie in this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge – on the Legendary Map Pack maps. The end result was a draw; we each won one, lost one, and tied one. The overall fun? Win-win. The new maps have had a simply ginormous amount of love and…

The latest Bungie Podcast is also up – one hour, 54 mb of Lars Bakken and Shiska. (More than you can take? Maybe.) Thanks to Psychophan7 for the first heads-up on this, and the Double XP post, as well.(Louis Wu 00:50:26 UTC)

The Living Dead Double XP Weekend has kicked off – though it’s not actually Double XP yet, due to a technical glitch. (It should be by tomorrow, though.) Go shoot some zombies!(Louis Wu 00:45:48 UTC)

Inside Halo 11 is now up at YouTube (and probably soon on Machinima.com) – Dead Pixel answers your questions about machinima and lets you hear some bad, bad singing. Thanks, Adam Kovic.(Louis Wu 21:15:34 UTC)

According to GameDaily, the Halo 3 marketing campaign was honored last night at the MI6 Conference – full results aren’t posted yet, but when they are, we’ll tell you what the honor was.(Louis Wu 18:54:40 UTC)

akqa let us know that both the Halo 3 website and the IRIS ARG are up for Webby awards – you can swing by and vote in the Peoples Voice balloting!(Louis Wu 18:52:43 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 explores the dangers of Grifball… for fans. Check today’s entry of Another Halo Comic Strip.(Louis Wu 18:37:19 UTC)

Miles Dude sent in a funny dialogue clip he captured between a couple of marines – go listen to it in our Dialogue Databank!(Louis Wu 18:25:35 UTC)

Anti Enemy is selling (bartering?) the website, ‘spartan117.com’. He’s looking for best offer – doesn’t have to be money, I guess. Go check.(Louis Wu 18:23:01 UTC)

Herr Zrbo, among others, let us know that the Legendary Map Pack maps now have representative Heat Maps (showing kills and deaths) posted on Bungie.net. There’s no actual data yet – but the overhead views are nice…(Louis Wu 13:15:31 UTC)

Maximum Fear noticed that Fyreball is running a Halo tournament – 4v4, all team members must be signed up on Fyreball, all teams must be signed up by the end of today. Prizes!(Louis Wu 13:12:28 UTC)

Wow, this is very cool. pete_the_duck decided to see if he could use the camera coordinates (shown when in pan-cam mode, and visible in cutscenes) to revisit cutscene locations while in Theater mode. He was successful in a number of locations on the Ark. Check out his pics!(Louis Wu 12:56:38 UTC)