Category: HBO

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)

Hawty McBloggy’s now-traditional (if by ‘traditional’ you mean ‘going strong after 5 weeks’) Friday Caption Fun feature has results from last week, and a new screen for you to caption. Just don’t take mine.(Louis Wu 13:59:58 UTC)

I thought this writeup of Halo 3’s good and bad points (more bad than good, according to the writer) was interesting just because of how differently we interpreted parts of the game. The writer found the opening level of Halo to be claustrophobic, plodding, and badly paced – I found it to be nearly the…

Mid7night put up a copule of movies of his X-Plane Hornet model in action – no sound, but it’s pretty cool-looking nonetheless!(Louis Wu 13:48:46 UTC)

trigger119 pointed out a moving entry in the MLG Film Festival – check out In Master Chief We Trust, by TheDuoGroup.(Louis Wu 13:37:08 UTC)

Halo Wars has put up another Monthly Update – mostly, it’s a discussion of some music recording the team is doing, and an upcoming tournament they’ll be playing. Give it a read! Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 13:05:35 UTC)

Six new stories in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!(Louis Wu 13:04:08 UTC)

Bungie posted their latest Halo Humpday Challenge last night – it’s easier to pull off a Bungie win when both teams are Bungie. They played on the new maps – if you want to get a sense for flow, give it a read! BolognaFire was first with the news.(Louis Wu 12:57:22 UTC)