Category: HBO

The opening cutscene of Sacred Icon, ‘Uncomfortable Silence’, is now available in HD for your downloading pleasure from our Cutscene Library. Thanks, as always, to Clan Infectionist and Wraith7n. Man, I’d forgotten how gorgeous some of the settings in that scene were…(Louis Wu 22:35:13 UTC)

Wow. If you’ve got REALLY deep pockets, the Spiker from one of the Believe commercials is being auctioned off live, tomorrow – starting bid is $3500, with an expectation that it might reach $5500. (I’ve never participated in a live auction on eBay before – but apparently, they get to charge a premium on top…

Up on Bungie.net, you’ll find a new interview with an old name… Shishka is back at Bungie, and he’s here to make your matchmaking experience oh so much better. Go read what he’s gonna do for you! (And welcome back, Shishka!)(Louis Wu 18:15:00 UTC)

Have you ever wondered what grenades do when you’re not using them? ZZoMBiE13 has. Go read Another Halo Comic Strip for details.(Louis Wu 17:54:16 UTC)

Cody Miller announced the opening of High Score Halo, a subsite of High Speed Halo whereby you can win fame and accolades (or at least your initials on a cool retro high score list) by garnering the most points in a Halo 3 campaign run. Go see!(Louis Wu 15:40:52 UTC)

If it wasn’t enough to see articles that say “Halo sucks, even though it gave us the underpinnings of an entire generation of shooters”, and “Halo sucks, even Barbie’s Horse Adventure is more fun”, now SPARTAN 294 reminds us that Halo sucks, and has come in second again, to Call of Duty 4, for the…

Wow. OboeCrazy wrote an English Horn solo with some Oboe and experimentation with guitar pedals… and Elnea added some background effects… and the result is haunting. Go listen to ‘Prayer’, a “Covenant prayer to their Gods for the Great Journey…a prayer essentially for death, and filled with Flood.” (It’s unlikely that there’ll be bandwidth problems,…

Man, it’s the day to hate on Halo 3, I guess. ExtremeTech has an article that rates games as to whether they’re better, or worse, than Halo 3. Only one game lost to Bungie’s newest release on their entire 10-game roster – Crysis. I realized I couldn’t take the list seriously, though, when they described…

Dan Baker let us know that he’s added new content to his (very high quality) Halo comic – Page 3 has two new panels since we last mentioned it a couple of weeks ago. Go look! (He says more is coming soon.)(Louis Wu 14:17:21 UTC)

Over at Games Are Fun, there’s a summary of what Halo has done for the shooter genre on consoles. It’s a funny article, because the guy who wrote it clearly doesn’t like Halo at all… but still admits that it did a few things right. Give it a look.(Louis Wu 14:13:31 UTC)

Elnea’s posted Halo Action Figure Theater #139 – the pretty blue lady explains how she makes her most important choices. I think it’s a valuable glimpse into the female mind.(Louis Wu 13:48:49 UTC)

Yesterday, we mentioned a Halo theme for Ericsson phones – there was interest in the forum, so Don sent along the theme itself. It’s quite small (30k, zipped); to install it, put it in your phone’s “theme” directory then apply it by going to settings > display > theme. (The theme itself has an underscore…

TTL Demag0gue stopped by with the latest Reclaimer comic – Ferial is being rather cryptic.(Louis Wu 15:32:41 UTC)

Heh – Maluu and MrOllie are back to their old Trick-Jumping ways, with a JumpTactics entry into the MLG Pro Film Festival Contest. It’s short, and it makes extensive use of tweaked damage settings… but it’s beautiful. Go watch. Thanks to RVideo for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 14:33:17 UTC)

Wow. Ducain pointed out this newspost at High Impact Halo – seems a bunch of crazy HIH tricksters figured out a way to get a vehicle into the Index Chamber in Halo 2’s Quarantine Zone. If you’re thinking “yeah, so?” read the explanation of how this came about in grumpy’s post. That’s some pretty serious…

Littlebigman noticed that Toy News International has pics of McFarlane Series 3 figures. He wasn’t very gracious about it, though.(Louis Wu 12:47:42 UTC)

Lordstemplar1 stopped by to let us know about Gray Team Transmission One, a new machinima project from Mindless Distortion Productions, has been released. You can find download links on the 508th Brigade forum. Twelve minutes long. The writing could use a little help… but the battle scenes are fun.(Louis Wu 12:46:44 UTC)

Don has reworked his Bungie/Halo 3 cell phone theme – he built it for his Sony Ericsson W580i, but apparently, it works for a few of their models. Check it out!(Louis Wu 12:31:20 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that the Halo CE Chronicles series ‘Shipwrecked’ Episode 4 is out – The Exception shows what happens when you get too hungry.(Louis Wu 12:29:49 UTC)

If you missed the ‘Our Favorite Things’ movie download last week (there aren’t that many of you who have, we’ve served almost 100,000 copies of it, in various flavors), Bungie has made it available (for free, of course) on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Head to New Arrivals -> Halo 3 to grab it! There are a…