Category: HBO

So, last night we got mail from quinion, who pointed out an auction on eBay for a ‘Signed Halo Mountain Dew Vending Machine’. The seller was ‘bungie_llc’, with 0 feedback, and the picture was pretty generic – and too low-res to actually see any signatures, if there were, indeed, any to be seen. The description…

Halo Action Figure Theater 138 gets John out of the box… but not into Cortana’s (nonexistent) pants. Just as well, I guess.(Louis Wu 13:23:59 UTC)

Well, I was rushing to get all that news posted so I could get to the big stuff – Bungie posted pictures of ‘Avalanche’, one of the new maps coming in the Legendary Map Pack on April 15, along with an interview with some of its designers. Yes, it owes a lot to Sidewinder. No,…

According to Action Figure Insider, Entertainment Earth will be selling an exclusive yellow ODST McFarlane figure this fall. (If I’ve mentioned this before, apologies – it’s really hard to keep track of what’s gone up and what hasn’t, McFarlane-wise.)(Louis Wu 12:41:11 UTC)

PixelBotGo, at MLG Canada, has written up a summary of the MLG 2008 Pro Circuit Ladder #1 Playoffs – go see where they all stand!(Louis Wu 12:36:43 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy sent me a link that I’m hesitant to pass on, but… well, what the heck. (Louis Wu 12:24:54 UTC)

Sane Intolerant continues to follow the Halo Action Figure Theater theme in his Halo Toy Box – I guess if you can’t beat ’em, you should piggyback on ’em, right?(Louis Wu 12:23:05 UTC)

Looks like this week’s challengers for the Halo Humpday Challenge is the team from ForgeHub – and GamingTV plans to broadcast this match live. More details at GTV.(Louis Wu 12:04:15 UTC)

Wave of Lag stopped by to announce that h2vista.net is running a mod contest; as part of the High Res Halo project (bringing a total graphical overhaul to Halo 1, via Halo Custom Edition), they’re building an enormous map originally designed by Mrs Doublefire (who now works for Bungie). It’s got a lot of space…

James Center got married last weekend… and he and his new wife are such Halo fans that the wedding cake was Halo-themed! Check it out.(Louis Wu 11:55:40 UTC)

Took the last half of yesterday off, and came back to a mailbox FULL of mail. Let’s get to it. Sam M recreated a scene from Cowboy Bebop within the Halo engine; you can watch the Halo vid itself, or a side-by-side comparison of the original with its remake, using the YouTube links in his…

Crap. It’s been one of those days. I nearly forgot to post today’s Another Halo Comic Strip entry – which is silly, because I talked to ZZoMBiE13 about it this morning. Anyway, it’s funny, and you should go read it. (Louis Wu 22:48:12 UTC)

I’m not sure we have the resources to host EVERY collection of panoramas that gets sent to us – but Matt Banks saw the action panoramas that Logan Rini sent in recently, and let us know that he’s been working on the same sort of thing. He does nice work, so we posted it. Go…

Delicious Pie stopped by with word from Luke Smith, over at the NeoGAF forum – apparently the planned map reveal (mentioned in last Friday’s Weekly Update) that was scheduled to go live today will not be posted until tomorrow. Bummer!(Louis Wu 11:20:44 UTC)

Are you having trouble keeping up with the storyline of Halo Action Figure Theater? There was a two-part plot summary on the site – but it only ran through episode #73 (she’s up to almost 140 now). Luckily, she’s just added two new parts, bringing you almost current. Of course… they might just confuse you…

Dan the Stick was the first to point out Inside Halo, Episode 9 – Sodagod pays tribute to Mythica.org, hosts an interview with DigitalPh33r (pretty funny), and shows off the five top plays of the week. And, oh, yeah, includes a Val Kilmer montage. If you don’t want to stream it from YouTube, it’s downloadable…

More Rooster Teeth goodies – Recovery One, Part III has been released for the general public – and director’s commentary (including interesting discussion about the cast of this miniseries) is available for sponsors. The series has just one more episode to go… I’d forgotten how good it was. Dark – definitely. Not your typical Rooster…

Over at Grifball.com, you’ll find both a highlight reel from the weekend of Social Matchmaking (if you haven’t been watching the highlights reels, you can access them all from that post), as well as the full 192-team league breakout for the 2008 Spring League – games get underway next Monday. See you on the court!(Louis…

Dennis Powers sent along some stats for the Halo Custom Edition of the Halo Maps website – 56 original multiplayer map designs, 68 modified levels, and 3 single player levels have been added since 2008 began, bringing the total number of assets to 3050. Wow! He also pointed out 4 maps of note – check…

Xboxter, via email, and CaptainOblivious, on our forum, both pointed out the same NSFW naked Cortana at I4U News. (Xboxter actually found her through Kotaku, but that’s neither here nor there.) Pass on this one if your boss doesn’t like naked women on your monitor. Otherwise… she’s pretty amazing.(Louis Wu 21:39:33 UTC)