Category: HBO

scarab noticed an interview with Certain Affinity’s Max Hoberman over at Gamasutra – for the most part, he discusses their upcoming game Plunder. scarab made this Halo-related by suggesting that Max’s experience building a useful multiplayer system for Halo 2 and 3 would help him out in his quest to build one for Plunder… always…

Hawty McBloggy is kicking off a new feature – ‘Do You Play Too Much Halo?’ Looks a lot like ‘You might be a redneck…’ with a different focus. Go add your own examples!(Louis Wu 13:29:44 UTC)

Bungie decided to play this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge against randoms in the MLG playlist, and they brought along a ringer – MLG Commissioner John Nelson. The writeup shows why MLG team play is a different world than your standard matchmaking fare. (Thanks to the coordination efforts of Nelson, Bungie won two of the three…

The Fan Fiction section has eight new pieces this week – go read!(Louis Wu 12:44:04 UTC)

I didn’t back-date this newspost – nope. It was posted during Thursday’s news cycle at HBO – thank goodness for daylight savings time. I would never screw up and forget to post an episode of Another Halo Comic Strip, because they’re very funny. (This one’s pretty cute, and was worked over a couple of times,…

Do you like Grifball? You’ve got another chance to play it for double experience points – the playlist is live now, and will disappear Monday morning at 2 am PT. w00t! Update: Just noticed that the Grifball Intergalactic World Championship will be taking place in Seattle in August! Thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 22:38:59 UTC)

Ducain, over at High Impact Halo, made the mistake of asking the two biggest blowhards he could find about the Halo community, and how it’s changed over the years. (Yes, one of those blowhards is me.) He did a very nice job formatting our walls of text. If you’ve got time to read a book…

JeSteR 343 found a company that’s selling the Halo 3 Legendary Edition for $69.90. Dunno how long that’ll last…(Louis Wu 18:21:44 UTC)

I’m sure there’s already a 50-post thread on our forum about this… but I’m just walking in the door, and it’s news, so I’m posting it. Bungie has put up a short trailer (1:20 long) showing off the Legendary maps – I don’t know who’s doing the voiceover, but they do Byron sweet justice. Go…

Seems like panoramas are all the rage right now. Blinding stopped by with a couple from multiplayer, nomis78 added new ones from Tsavo Highway, and P1ankton sent us a link to a monster collection of images (they’re not all panoramas, but many are, and the ones that aren’t are pretty nicely composed) over at TeamXbox…

Wow. Over at DLSReports.com, there’s a story about a guy who does (well, did) tech support for Comcast who got cheated on while playing Halo 2 – and he took his revenge by using Comcast’s internal tools to find the cheater’s home address and phone and calling the guy’s father. The DSLReports story focuses on…

Hawty McBloggy found a My Little Master Chief Pony on eBay. It’s as bizarre as it sounds.(Louis Wu 11:11:32 UTC)

The discussion of how big the Ark really is pops up now and then on our forum – occasionally, some interesting data is thrown into the pot by well-placed screenshots. Omega did exactly that yesterday with some bizarre out-of-map pictures he took on the last level of the game… follow his Bungie.net link for a…

Apparently, there are still people confused about which of our newsposts on Tuesday were real, and which were April Fools jokes. The Bungie Online Map, HIH closing its doors, Legendary Armor getting a C&D notice, the Halo MMO, and the Halo Wars interview were all fake. Everything else was (as far as I know) real.…

Thanks to Clan Infectionist and Wraith-Ops, we’re comfortable adding a significant chunk of the remaining Halo 2 HD cutscenes to our Cutscene Library – all but the finale and credits are online. Swing by and watch the unfolding of the Halo 2 storyline in HD!(Louis Wu 20:10:42 UTC)

GotFrag has a summary of the MLG Online Playoffs so far – there are some pretty interesting outcomes! Take a look.(Louis Wu 20:05:43 UTC)

A couple of days ago, we mentioned some pretty cool Halo renders (with added work done) over at Renderosity. I got in contact with the creator, ubald, and was given permission to mirror them here – you can find all of his Halo work in one easy-to-navigate collection. (He’s got plenty of Non-Halo work over…

nomis78 created a few panoramas last week – he’s back with a few more. Check this post, and this one, for both small and large versions. (Louis Wu 19:47:03 UTC)

PHANTOMFIRE X let us know that DS Fanboy has a list of the ‘Top ten horrendous April Fools’ joke ideas for DS owners’… and Halo DS is on the list. (Problem is, it’s not really a joke…)(Louis Wu 18:41:58 UTC)

Bzerker01 let us know that Outpost: Isil Episode 4 is up at Treeskunk Productions – the humans look for lost stuff, the Covenant looks for food. When they find each other, you learn which side shoots better. Sort of.(Louis Wu 15:42:43 UTC)