Category: HBO

ZZoMBiE13 got a bunch of requests for wallpaper renditions from yesterday’s edition of Another Halo Comic Strip – he supplied three different ones, which we’ve added to the Wallpaper section. (Louis Wu 14:42:56 UTC)

2phast pointed out that the next Larry the Marine is posted now – Larry discovers what DOES beat tank. (Louis Wu 14:40:45 UTC)

Gah. I managed to forget to post yesterday’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip. Which stinks, because it’s really well-done, and funny. Go read it. (Sorry, ZZoMBiE13!)(Louis Wu 16:21:16 UTC)

Damien Isla was one of the Bungie employees who talked at this year’s Game Developer Conference – he described how the Halo 3 AI Objectives System made the game more fun for players. Over at Game/AI, he’s written about how he didn’t actually think this system would work, during development – its focus on end…

Rockslider continues to look for new ways to enjoy Halo 3 – today he’s come up with a marine-saving challenge, and a related rocket launcher preservation mission. (I’d love to see footage from the battle he describes.) Give it a read at Bad Cyborg!(Louis Wu 15:09:15 UTC)

1Up has posted an article called ‘Five Things We’ve Learned From D&D’ – a tribute to Gary Gygax. In each lesson, they point to current games that have taken inspiration from Gygax’s innovations. Halo pops up a couple of times (though not always in a positive light).(Louis Wu 14:37:33 UTC)

Lordstemplar1 pointed out that Prophecy Episode 3 has been posted on the 508th Brigade forum. 12 minutes long, it tells the story of the Covenant overrunning of Thermopylae – and the human resistance to overwhelming force. Nice battle footage, and a well-told story – this one’s shaping up!(Louis Wu 14:25:34 UTC)

Black Six noticed that GoGamer.com is selling Halo 2 Vista for $15 – for the next 41 hours or so. (He actually told us about this 8 hours ago… but hey, we all gotta sleep sometime.)(Louis Wu 14:08:08 UTC)

Getting into the screenshot-based comic game is Dennis Powers, who’s creating a graphic novella about a couple of characters you’ll see more of in the Season 5 machinima of The Halo CE Chronicles, currently in production. New episodes will be up once per week. (Details about the comic are here – the comic itself is…

The Halo 2 HD Cutscenes have been updated to include ‘Home Field Advantage’, setting the stage for both the Cairo Station battles and the birth of a new ‘Arbiter’. 150 mb, give or take (depending on which version you grab). Thanks again to HaLo2FrEeEk for capturing these!(Louis Wu 18:09:09 UTC)

Omega noticed that the Halo Wars website has updated with new concept art of some Forerunner architecture. (Our forum denizens don’t think too highly of the design, apparently, if Omega’s thread is any indication.)(Louis Wu 18:04:12 UTC)

Icy Guy dropped off 13 new dialogue snippets, all captured from Halo 3 multiplayer – go listen in our Dialogue Databank!(Louis Wu 13:34:06 UTC)

Mr Sark reminded us that the Sarkathlon Contest running over at G4’s X-Play (we mentioned it last week) ends this Tuesday night (March 11) at midnight, PST. They aired the midway leaderboards on Wednesday, and the top time was DJ Maluu (the name should be familiar to folks who’ve watched Halo jump videos), at 1:50.13.…

Whoa, weird. I was closing out some temporary text files in preparation for heading up for the night… and found a news post I wrote this morning sometime, but forgot to post. Oops! John_117 made some more progress on his Master Chief wall painting – check his forum post for the pics!(Louis Wu 03:19:54 UTC)

Pico stopped by (welcome back, Pico!) with a stop-motion flick showing aoff a battle between… well, a lot of folks. Including Master Chief, which is what makes it all Halo-related. Pretty fun piece! (I especially loved the bit where Diablo flips Kaneda’s bike – nicely fluid, and great shadows!) There are multiple download links in…

SPARTAN 294 was the first to notice the new Bungie Weekly Update (it’s in our Weekly Update Archive, too, if you’d rather have the light background) – lots of cool info in this one. Stuff about how matchmaking deals with ‘mixed skill’ parties, fascinating details about how the game chooses which spawn point to bring…

DigitalPh33r has kicked off a new machinima series – ‘It’s a Wonderful LIVE, Episode 1’ chronicles his experiences with other gamers, as affected by his Recon armor. Thanks, SPARTAN 294.(Louis Wu 02:26:00 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy followed up on her story about Nathaniel, the unlucky gamer who had his Xbox 360 cleaned a little too well – looks like Bungie went a little overboard in an effort to even things out. A feel-good story for sure! Thanks, the Light Show.(Louis Wu 02:23:11 UTC)

The PRWeek 2008 awards were given out on Thursday night – and Microsoft and their external PR firm Edelman took home Technology Campaign of the Year for the Halo 3 launch. Nice work!(Louis Wu 02:20:32 UTC)

Terminator182 has updated his HBO News Widget (for Mac OSX’s Dashboard) – bug fixes and graphical tweaks make this useful tool even better! Check it out.(Louis Wu 02:08:20 UTC)