Category: HBO

Adam Grumbo is selling a life-sized, plastic resin assault rifle on eBay; you’ve only got another day to bid. (It was a three-day listing, but we didn’t hear about it until last night, and I’m just now getting to posting it.) Current bid is $75, and this puppy looks SHARP. (He’s included photos of a…

The Bungie Weekly Update is now live over at Bungie.net (thanks, Vandle Valsher) – there’s some awesome info about Forge, as it’ll work with the Legendary maps, along with an interview with David Aldridge, a new Bungie Network Engineer hire, and a picture of Shishka that NOBODY should be subjected to. (Thanks, Frankie. You jerk.)…

DigitalPh33r’s Arby ‘n’ the Chief Episode 7 is now up on Machinima.com and YouTube – Chief goes after girls. (You might think the whole Tag thing is over the top… but I’ve got 14-year-olds in the house, and I can say that’s totally real.) The rest of it… man. Thanks, discopete019.(Louis Wu 19:18:50 UTC)

Heh – SarcasticGamer.com has its own take on the whole concept of DoubleXP Weekends. (Bungie spells better than they do, though.)(Louis Wu 19:03:11 UTC)

Over at Teen Ink, there’s a story written by someone who went to their first MLG tournament last summer, in Chicago. Check out how it goes for the non-pros!(Louis Wu 18:03:10 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 7 is up – I gotta say, if I were Corporal Johnston, I’d think about ways to go solo.(Louis Wu 18:01:56 UTC)

Smurfa noticed that Inside Halo: Episode 10 has been posted to Machinima.com. (It’s also available on YouTube.) SodaGod covers Halo Wars, HaloTube, the top 5 Halo clips of the week, and a summary of the week’s Halo Machinima offerings… with a healthy dose of his bizarre humor. Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:46:55 UTC)

Australian PC World has posted their ’47 Most Diabolical Video-Game Villains of All Time’ (where on EARTH did they get that number from?) – and an old favorite from the Halo series comes in at number 31. Go read! Thanks, Black Six.(Louis Wu 14:40:30 UTC)

UNSC Trooper has jumped into the updating game with a vengeance – the Halo Story Page has seen more activity in the past 4 days than it saw in the prior 6 months. (Jillybean, not to be outdone, has popped her own post up on top – but I’d have to say the driving force…

TTL Demag0gue has posted Reclaimer #40 over at the Reclaimer website. Looks like there’s a bit of bad blood between Ferial and the AI…(Louis Wu 14:32:28 UTC)

Z pointed out a Halo 2 montage from Phurion called ‘Progression’. Encoded in Perian, it seems to need the VLC player to display properly. (The windows version is actually included with the download – but Mac/*nix users can grab it from the VLC homepage.) It’s a monster (almost 300 mb), but it’s fun to see…

FireDragon04 has released a Halo 3 short, set in his ‘Consequences’ universe – there’s a short FAQ on the download page if you are confused after watching. (I was.) Two minutes long, available in divx, wmv, or streaming from YouTube.(Louis Wu 14:26:55 UTC)

zukan stopped by to announce that his ‘be Human’ machinima (it won a special award in our Zune contest last year) will be featured in the upcoming Hull Short Film Festival in mid-April. If you live nearby, go watch! (Random Hull quote: “There’s music on every corner, even if it’s just coming out of the…

Gunluva created ‘Guardian Beat’ – it’s another of his sound effect vids (the first was mentioned a few days ago), this time on Sandtrap. This time around, he’s added an external drum track.(Louis Wu 13:54:22 UTC)

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)