Category: HBO

Cocopjojo let us know that the second part in an analysis of Halo 3’s Terminals by vociferous is now online at Ascendant Justice. It’s a very extensive and well-researched look at the story of Didact and the Librarian – if you didn’t pay very close attention to the terminals as you ran through the game,…

EternalDarkWing let us know that a friend created a custom Halo 3 Grunt Birthday Party skull – pics and details can be found at Destructoid. It’s even got the input plug!(Louis Wu 12:44:31 UTC)

Dan Baker has stepped up the pace on his Halo comic – Page 3 has been finished, Page 4 has a gorgeous panel on it, and the whole thing, to date, has been made available in PDF format, if you want to print it out yourself. Go see!(Louis Wu 21:56:26 UTC)

Maximum Fear has an update on his Forge Art contest posted on his site – entries are still welcome until April 25, but you can see a few of the best things he’s gotten so far by swinging by his site.(Louis Wu 21:53:46 UTC)

AoD Deadite stopped by to report that the Dispatch Community Game Night #1 went well – you can read a Bungie Humpday-style writeup of the games, as well as see a short trailer showing off some of the gameplay, on their website. (I can’t find a way to link to the post directly, but as…

Not surprisingly, when Wired Magazine took a look at powered suits in honor of the upcoming release of Iron Man, your favorite Mjolnir outfit made the list.(Louis Wu 18:57:30 UTC)

Rockslider’s expanded the fun you can have with the AA gun megabattle he mentioned last week – now intercept them on their way to the gun. Looks like a blast!(Louis Wu 17:14:10 UTC)

Over on NeoGAF, someone posted pictures of Valhalla… under a heavy layer of snow. Looks great! Thanks, DHalo.(Louis Wu 17:07:08 UTC)

Sigafoos sent word of The Riot 93 – 30 minutes, 12 mb, with the requisite community news and challenges, along with discussion of the upcoming maps. Good luck to Night Rider 7!(Louis Wu 17:05:37 UTC)

Wow. An image that surfaced during the IRIS ARG last year is back in the news – AOL wonders if it’s a real UFO sighting. (Hint: no.) Thanks, DKTH3puma.(Louis Wu 16:42:59 UTC)

QuikThnkr let us know that there are two grifball-related goodies for you to listen to or watch: Week 1 Episode of the Grifball Explosion podcast is up and ready for download – guests included trigger119, who announced that GamingTV would be broadcasting some matches live, with commentary, in the upcoming season… and American Dream has…

Last week, I asked for stories from couples that game together, or that met while gaming. (It seems that submissions to that thread have dwindled; I guess it’s time to start thinking about compiling the info into a story…) On the other side of that issue is this kind of thing. People have always groused…

Zafar Iqbal found a site that’s offering to record Halo 3 clips in any resolution up to 1080i for you. Eventually it’ll be a paid service, but right now they’re offering a 7-day free trial. Swing by for details!(Louis Wu 13:29:09 UTC)

Speaking of children, Elnea’s posted Halo Action Figure Theater 140 – and even as the pretty blue lady is expounding on the mystical properties of the hammer, John is… oh, never mind. Go read it if you want to stoop to her level.(Louis Wu 19:17:01 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked, Episode 5 is now available at the Halo CE Chronicles website. What a child that man is…(Louis Wu 19:10:14 UTC)

A lot of you noticed that the Team SWAT playlist was cut short last weekend; it wasn’t available on Sunday. To make up for it, they’re bringing it back THIS weekend (again as a double EXP playlist). It’s live at 2pm PDT (a bit over 2 hours from now). Have fun, XerxdeeJ! Monday, the MLG…

Dennis Powers let us know that 30 new maps have been added to the Halo Maps archive this week – including a slick new level called ‘Desolate Keep’, from Dontu. You can see screenshots here.(Louis Wu 18:37:47 UTC)

FireDragon04 stopped by to announce that Episode One – Pilot of his new machinima, ‘Consequences: Hyperions Vengeance’, is now available for download. Swing by his website for links. Characters are great, voice acting is (mostly) great, story is a little hard to follow. (Mostly because the hologram is completely unintelligible, I think.) Quality is a…

TTL Demag0gue has posted Reclaimer 37 – and Ferial’s scheming becomes more obvious, even as the mystery behind Archimedes deepens.(Louis Wu 15:10:23 UTC)

nomis78 put together a really nice panorama of the control room from the final level of Halo 3. (You can see a higher-res version of the pic in this post.) Pretty stuff!(Louis Wu 14:11:03 UTC)