Category: HBO

As has been mentioned a couple of times, Bungie held a press event last week for the Legendary Map Pack – and two of the invitees came from fansites. KP was there representing HBO, and TTL L Askan was there representing Tied the Leader. Writeups from both individuals are fascinating reads – we’ve got KP’s…

So in Bungie’s writeup of the Humpday challenge this week, SketchFactor mentioned an epic stop by team HBO, keeping Bungie from scoring a third flag at one point. Turns out the hero was mnemesis – he was able to provide a screenshot, but a screenshot doesn’t do the event justice. So I’ve taken Sketch’s film…

wkfd is conducting a survey for his Games Software Development course at Glasgow Caledonian University – it looks at the Achievement system for Xbox games in general, and for Halo 3 in specific. Swing by and spend a few minutes answering his questions!(Louis Wu 18:32:43 UTC)

GotFrag has a preview of the Meadowlands competition that kicks off the MLG 2008 Pro Circuit today – go read!(Louis Wu 18:27:00 UTC)

FireDragon04 let us know that Consequences: Hyperions Vengeance Episode 2 has been released – the storyline becomes a little less convoluted. As before – great camerawork, great voiceacting, interesting effects. I’m looking forward to actually figuring out what that hologram is saying!(Louis Wu 18:05:54 UTC)

Yesterday, we mentioned that the Halo 3 marketing campaign was honored at the MI6 Conference – there are a couple of articles discussing that win. GameDaily has one, and Gamasutra has another. Go read!(Louis Wu 16:26:50 UTC)

Next-Gen has posted the 100 best-selling games in the past 12 months (March 1, 2007 – March 1, 2008). Proving that it’s the holiday season that drives all sales for the year, seven of the top 10 sellers were released in the final three months of last year – and Call of Duty 4 has…

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)