Category: HBO

SirTopEmHat stopped by to point out a new montage preview he’s putting together, using gameplay from Str8 Rippin’s Tsquared. Short but sweet!(Louis Wu 12:45:32 UTC)

AngelicLionheart noticed a rendering of Master Chief doing the CaramellDansen. It’s much longer than it needs to be – but funny nonetheless.(Louis Wu 12:31:41 UTC)

John_117 put together a ‘War Memorial’ vid, which he posted on YouTube – it’s surprisingly evocative. Go watch!(Louis Wu 12:08:55 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across another life-size, made-of-steel energy sword for sale on eBay. It ain’t cheap – but it’s pretty nicely finished! You’ve still got three and a half days to decide – current bid is just under $175.(Louis Wu 12:07:08 UTC)

Well, yesterday’s news was frozen at midday in order to keep the Vidoc story at the top; I thought it was a worthwhile sacrifice. However, it means there’s a bit of built-up queued news at this point… let’s start with some very cool panoramas posted yesterday by RVideo. (There’s also one extra one in this…

Bungie has posted ‘Mapmaker, mapmaker make me a map!’ – a brand-new Vidoc that looks at the three new maps coming next week in the Legendary Map Pack. This one is fun – it’s along the lines of the old ‘Evolution’ video, where a bunch of Bungie guys get together and discuss the content, and…

Morpheus noticed that G4TV recently posted a ‘Top 7 Toughest Boss Battles of 07’ – and Halo 3’s Scarabs came in at Number 3. Fun watch!(Louis Wu 17:21:07 UTC)

Gamasutra has an interview with Englobe’s Tom Edwards about gaming’s ‘Geocultural Risks’. One of the examples he discusses is a name change he oversaw during the development of Halo 2. It’s been known for quite some time that the Arbiter was originally known as ‘Dervish’, and the name was changed for political reasons… but I’ve…

Halo France has interviewed Graeme Divine, from the Halo Wars team – there’s quite a bit of information here! Go give it a read – either in its original English, or its translated French. Thanks, Sirkan!(Louis Wu 17:00:15 UTC)

Underdawg253 dropped into our forum with word of ‘Ezekiel’, the latest offering from Etzun Films. This is the first part of 3, and it might confuse you. (Or it might not.) He links to a YouTube version, and mid-quality downloadable version from FileFront, and the original thread at HaloGrid (with hidden spoilers if you want…

SPARTAN 294 reported that once again, CoD4 is on top of the Most Played list on LIVE. From the thread responses, it sounds like our forum denizens are getting tired of hearing about it.(Louis Wu 16:36:10 UTC)

Yesterday, we mentioned a blog question by Maximum Fear – he got a bunch of answers, which he’s posted, and he’s put up a new question: which Halo game is your favorite? Go tell him.(Louis Wu 16:23:59 UTC)

Yesterday, AfRo SaUcE stopped by our forum to highlight an interesting betrayal. He was playing through Floodgate… and he was teamkilled by the Arbiter. (Not his buddy PLAYING as the Arbiter – no, this was the NPC version.) He’s got the clip up at Bungie.net – or you can watch the YouTubed version, with his…

Ben let us know that MLG has announced that Bungie will be previewing Blackout at the MLG Meadowlands event this weekend – and attendees will get a chance to play it, a few days ahead of the public. Nice!(Louis Wu 21:53:25 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 8 is up. I could use a maid like that…(Louis Wu 21:47:32 UTC)

Magni Harvald was the first on our forum to notice that Bungie.net has put up a pretty amazing-looking background in anticipation of the release of the Legendary Map Pack next week. Kevin ‘CreditWhore’ Paul did his best to not only take credit for the image, but for the idea behind using the image – luckily,…

As we mentioned earlier today, Bungie held a small press event last week, focused on the Legendary Map Pack. Writeups from that event are embargoed for a little while longer – but the artwork assets that were distributed to attendees are allowed to go up today. (Many of these images were included in last Friday’s…

Heh – Darkspire has posted their take on no-scopes – it’s pretty funny. Go watch! Thanks, oddworld.(Louis Wu 16:40:36 UTC)

Arby ‘n’ the Chief gets a close look-over in today’s Another Halo Comic Strip. Me? I’m more interested in getting my hands on that drink…(Louis Wu 13:20:50 UTC)

Maximum Fear wants to know what Halo has done for you. Swing by his site and let him know!(Louis Wu 12:23:11 UTC)