Category: HBO

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)

Dennis Powers pays homage to Elnea in the latest Halo CE Chronicles comic. Man… with all this cross-comic referencing, are we gonna be blessed with baby Halo comics? (Wait… we already had those.)(Louis Wu 17:50:45 UTC)

SirTopEmHat let us know that the trailer for his new project, Spine Destroyer, has been posted at FileFront. We’ve put up a couple of mirrors (a local copy of his WMP9 version, along with a QuickTime version), because it looks fun. Cloverfield-esque. Take a look! (Louis Wu 16:29:21 UTC)

serpx noticed that Halo: Orions Spartans II is now up at Newgrounds. (We mentioned part I back in mid-September.) It’s a little confusing, but if you pay attention, you should be able to get it all. Sounds like this might be the last one, too.(Louis Wu 16:28:00 UTC)

Zach Wigal, of the Gamers Outreach Foundation (search our news for more details), let us know that the Gamers for Giving event they held a couple of weeks ago went swimmingly – over 600 participants and spectators were present, and $4000 was raised for a local branch of the Autism Society of America. Go look…

sender let us know that over on the 405th forums, bevbor has made a SolidWorks MA5 interactive model. You’ll need Windows to play with it. 4.3 mb download, password-protected. (Password is included in the forum thread.)(Louis Wu 15:57:36 UTC)

Quikthnkr stopped by late last night to point out The Grifball Explosion, a new podcast devoted to Grifball and the working of the Spring League. If you’re playing in the league (or even just interested in the sport itself), swing by and listen! (Division details are up now in the Grifball forum, though they haven’t…

Today’s Larry the Marine celebrates St. Paddy’s Day… in a way that maybe it shouldn’t be celebrated. Thanks, 2phast. (No, really, thanks.)(Louis Wu 14:21:29 UTC)

Halo was a part of the World Cyber Games in 2003, 2004, and 2005 – but they dropped it in 2006 and 2007. (2001 and 2002 were PC-only competitions; Halo wasn’t even eligible.) It’s back now – Halo 3 was announced yesterday as one of the fourteen games (four console titles) in WCG 2008. Nice!…

A couple of hundred people have downloaded A Whisper in the Storm via BitTorrent, saving us a bunch of gigs of bandwidth – I’m pretty sure we can handle the rest of the demand via direct downloads. (The torrents are still running, and we’re still supplying a healthy seed for those who would like to…

We’ve made a couple of mentions of the obstacle course set up by Mr Sark, over at G4TV (when it was announced, and about halfway through); Thursday, final results were posted, and I’d have to say High Impact Halo played an enormous role. One of the three honorable mentions hails from there… as well as…