Category: HBO

PEZ let us know that halowiki.net is hosting new Flash map overviews, put together by Devozade. The first map up is Sandtrap, and the overviews should be embeddable in other sites. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:04:48 UTC)

Ross Mills noticed a tiny reference in the writeup for the London Movie Comic Media expo, coming in late May – Weta workshops will be there, with (among a lot of other things) “A sneak preview of the new Halo range of Collectibles, featuring Master Chief.” Nice!(Louis Wu 16:01:57 UTC)

Okay, the next Halo 2 HD cutscene release is ready… but this one’s a little different. Whisper in the Storm is 5:40 long – an enormous piece of work. In HD, it’s also an enormous file – it’s roughly a quarter of a gigabyte. To save our servers just a little bit, we’re holding back…

Sane Intolerant has restarted Halo Toy Box – he, too, has switched to McFarlane figures, and like Elnea, has noticed Cortana’s hawtness. (Louis Wu 02:43:22 UTC)

Kevin Larrabee, of Red Zone Gamer, let us know that in their latest podcast (number 4), he interviewed Seth Gibson (Bungie Tech Designer) and David Hunt (Bungie Lead Character Rigger and Cinematics Technical Director) about working at Bungie, how they got into animation, what they enjoy playing now, and more. The podcast is two and…

Lordstemplar1 stopped by to announce the release of Blackstone Teaser 2. Just under a minute, about 10 mb to download, or streamable from a couple of places. Looks a little scary!(Louis Wu 02:24:57 UTC)

Pixellated ran across some pictures of a laptop case mod that’s heavily inspired by Halo. Nice!(Louis Wu 02:07:28 UTC)

SPARTAN 294 noticed that DigitalPh33r released Arby ‘n’ the Chief Episode 6 – “Brawl”. Eight and a half minutes long, it gets back to the fun that might have been missing from the last couple of episodes. Arby and the Chief play some Super Smash Brothers Brawl… and it doesn’t go so well for one…

Bungie’s Weekly Update is available now over at Bungie.net (and in our Weekly Update Archive) – lots of details about the upcoming MLG playlist, some stats about the popularity of various settings and armor choices, a few random Recon giftings, and some great screenshots of vehicles that have received a cosmetic (and in the case…

As was noted last fall, Pontiac got involved in the Halo 3 hype with a ‘First to Play’ contest, and a Halo-branded G8. Zach Mulkey points out that the website for the G8 shows off a car covered with hundreds (thousands?) of photos and movies… and some of them are Halo-related. Can you find all…

Don’t think it’s a regular thing or anything… but Stuntmutt couldn’t help responding to a lament in our forum.(Louis Wu 17:08:29 UTC)

A year ago, Elnea posted Deus Meus, a Spartan battle prayer. She’s recently gotten some high-end tools, and has been playing with this for a bit… and yesterday, she posted a newly-remastered version that’s simply gorgeous. Go listen.(Louis Wu 14:22:00 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy reminds us that it’s Friday, which means Friday Caption Fun. She’s got the submissions from last week (165 of them, though she’s picked out a few of her favorites), plus a new pic for you to think about – go see what you can come up with!(Louis Wu 13:08:27 UTC)

UNSC_Trooper has put together a short quiz on the UNSC – how much do you know?(Louis Wu 13:04:32 UTC)

Five new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 12:23:34 UTC)

I posted this last night, but forgot to mention it; we’ll probably be posting another one later today, so I wanted to get this announced: Field Expedient is now available in HD in the Halo 2 Cutscene Library. Mirrors, as always, include Clan Infectionist and Wraith-Ops.(Louis Wu 12:15:58 UTC)

Okay, Halo Action Figure Theater just officially got weird. Like… weirder than it’s been. I’ll never look at an infection form the same.(Louis Wu 12:12:57 UTC)

The Halo Humpday Challenge this week was against Army of the Republic, a gaming clan that plays Halo 3, among other titles. Apparently, they play it pretty well – Bungie got slaughtered. Luke’s writeup rocks. Go read it.(Louis Wu 21:40:16 UTC)

JustAnotherFan stopped by to announce a teaser trailer for Grind Rider, a new machinima coming this summer. Camera work looks pretty cool – keep your eyes open!(Louis Wu 21:09:02 UTC)

Maximum Fear let us know he’s hosting a Forge art contest at his website – create a piece of art using Forge, take a screenshot, win a Bungie Store certificate! Go read all the rules and details.(Louis Wu 18:14:17 UTC)