Category: HBO

TTL Demag0gue stopped by to announce that Reclaimer 35 (he’s switching away from Chapter/part designations) – Ferial tries to rationalize his actions. Do you buy it?(Louis Wu 13:00:50 UTC)

The Milawukee Journal Sentinel has a story about US soldiers in Iraq playing shooters to relax. The continual misnaming of ‘Call of Duty 4’ as ‘Call to Action 4’ makes me wince… but other than that, it’s an interesting look at what soldiers see are the similarities – and the differences – between video games…

QuickTactical released a trailer for Infiltration. At least one fan wasn’t impressed – but watch it for yourself to decide!(Louis Wu 11:56:40 UTC)

A few days ago, a story surfaced that Lockout was being remade for the Legendary map pack. Evidence was presented in the form of a cover from a Dutch gaming mag. Frankie quickly shot it down as fake on the NeoGAF forums (thanks, BolognaFire)… but that didn’t stop the story from getting picked up on…

Lordstemplar1 stopped by with a ‘Video Update’ of what Dispatch films is doing – it seems to take inspiration from lots of existing work (Sodagod’s Inside Machinima, DigitalPh33r’s work, even the ForgeHub Video Tutorials). Tells you what the group is up to, and gives you another chance (whether you want it or not) to watch…

On our forum, Harabek announced a new machinima series: Pre-Game Lobby. Interesting bunch of characters, an ongoing Matchmaking-based storyline. This first episode is 19 minutes long, viewable on YouTube in two parts, or downloadable from Filefront in hi-res (almost 300 mb). This one shows potential!(Louis Wu 11:43:00 UTC)

While we slept last night, news on a whole lot of machinima crossed our desks. First up: Spriggs Episode 8 was posted. The storyline’s getting more serious (though it’s still pretty lighthearted in tone) – and my view of Spriggs is changing. 12 minutes long, downloadable in AVI format or streamable on YouTube. Go watch!(Louis…

Bandwidth usage due to the “Our Favorite Things” video released Friday has dropped below 75Mbit… so I guess it’s time to release more HD Halo 2 cutscenes. Today we’ve got Helljumpers, the opening scene from Delta Halo, along with the ‘delta’ version (showing the variations in different difficulties). Go grab ’em! Thanks, as always, to…

Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 92 is now up – 21 minutes, 9 megs of community news, map discussion, and a discussion of lolcats pics… without the actual pics.(Louis Wu 16:20:33 UTC)

Yesterday, I asked for stories of people who met (or just played with) their significant others on the Halo battlefield. The thread started off really slowly… and I was afraid it was a bust. (The first couple of posts were dumb jokes, and the next series was totally off-topic.) However, I woke up this morning…

ZZoMBiE13 pays tribute to a true inspiration in today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip. Great stuff!(Louis Wu 16:05:08 UTC)

Mike sent us a note wondering if we’d be interested in doing some coverage of couples that play Halo together. I think it’s an interesting subject – I know some of our forum denizens are Halo couples, and I’ve been playing a lot recently with a couple (in fact, the party usually includes his mom,…

TheShadyGnome has another ForgeHub Video Tutorial for you – Episode 7 covers Gravity Lift techniques. Use them to constrain your players, or expand the range of their motion – it’s up to you!(Louis Wu 14:53:55 UTC)

Rockslider is back with another megabattle setup – up to 52 Covenant enemies under the AA gun at the end of The Storm. Go read the details at Bad Cyborg!(Louis Wu 14:52:16 UTC)

In other Halo news, Mid7night announced that he’s collected all the Halo vehicles he’s ported to X-Plane in one place – swing by and take a look!(Louis Wu 14:47:09 UTC)

Wow. I think we might have weathered the storm. Last night, we helped Bungie host “Our Favorite Things”, a trailer that should pump you up for the Heroic DLC (whether you have it or not) – We served nearly 25,000 copies of it from three separate pipes in the past 12 hours, eating almost a…

Okay, this is just a quick post because there’s some confusion about the Heroic trailer being linked to in tonight’s Weekly Update, over at Bungie.net. We’ve put up three separate mirrors of the videos – grab the one that’s the right size and filetype for you: QuickTime 360p (17 mb): files1 | files2 | files3…

A few months after Halo 2 was released, a number of long-time Halo fans got together on AIM to discuss what was right – and wrong – about the game. The original plan was to use a cleaned-up version of this discussion as an official HBO review of Halo 2 (any of the participants were…

Wow. Remember a couple of weeks ago, when Bungie made a bad situation better by sending a huge box of schwag to the guy who’d had his artwork erased when he sent his Xbox in for service? It doesn’t end there. Microsoft sent him ANOTHER box of stuff – this one contained a surreal amount…

DigitalPh33r has released It’s a Wonderful LIVE, Episode 2 – mostly, he makes fun of the PS3, but also mocks Canada-ignorant players. 11 minutes long, rather bitter in tone. Doesn’t look like it’s on YouTube yet – though there ARE some forgeries there right now. Thanks, SPARTAN 294.(Louis Wu 18:17:36 UTC)