Category: HBO

Bungie played the guys from Rare this week in their Halo Humpday Challenge – apparently, they were forced to play at the crack of daw- um, 9 am. Poor guys; I hate having to get up that early. Even with that ridiculous requirement, AND some sneaky player shenanigans… they STILL won (though only by a…

Adam Grumbo let us know that the Austin Wind Symphony will be performing “The Music of Video Games” tomorrow night, at the Bethany Lutheran Church (which I assume is in Austin – the website makes ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION of how to find the locale – there’s not even a street address to Google); Adam will…

Today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip might actually provide an alternate explanation for Stuntmutt’s decision to retire One One Se7en…(Louis Wu 19:19:51 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a video made by Richiedude, of the 405th, showing the evolution of a fan-made Spartan helmet. Pretty cool!(Louis Wu 19:18:25 UTC)

Sep7imus alerted us to a note on the website of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, a Hollywood comedy theater. On Thursday, March 20, at 9:30 pm, they’re hosting ‘Halo 3: The Show’, based on (well, duh) Halo 3. A panel of celebrities (including Halo 3 voice actors Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk) will discuss the…

spu7n1k has been working (for a while) on a ‘Master Chief vs Spiderman’ comic – he’s decided to start posting these to spur himself to faster progress. I’m not sure if you should ask why these two guys are fighting… but if you wanted to see them do it, swing by his post!(Louis Wu 15:20:35…

DHalo let us know that he’s created an app that works with the HaloAPI to save your stats to a file on your drive. It requires Windows (and .NET) to run. A download link is in his post on the HaloAPI forum.(Louis Wu 15:06:16 UTC)

Brian Jarrard sat down with IGN Australia to talk about Forge, user-created content, and where Bungie wants to go with all this stuff in the future. Nice read! Thanks to cheapLEY for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 15:03:16 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy picked out some kickass Halo 3 Wallpaper designs from around the net – she got a bunch from here, but she also got a bunch from other places. Go see! Thanks, discopete019.(Louis Wu 23:15:54 UTC)

Bungie’s posted info about the March Playlist update over at Bungie.net – they’re introducing DoubleXP weekend playlists, with the first one featuring Grifball. They’re also adding some tweaks to the Heroic DLC hopper, and some random changes to other playlists. Go read for full details! Thanks, Pkmnrulz240.(Louis Wu 23:13:03 UTC)

Cody Miller posted highlights from the recent High Speed Halo tournament – check out the videos in his forum post. Looks like it was a lot of fun!(Louis Wu 21:40:03 UTC)

Bungie Lead Mission Designer Chris Opdahl has a sister at the Magnolia Intermediate School in Grass Valley, CA – and he’s managed to get her a Bungie-signed Legendary Helmet to auction on eBay as a fundraiser for the school. If you’re interested in the helmet, or in helping out the school… swing by the auction…

Schedonnardus went to an Election Coverage party at his school last night (he lives in Texas)… and snapped some pictures of a blue Master Chief pulling for Ron Paul. Check out his forum post for pics, and a vid.(Louis Wu 12:45:21 UTC)

QuickTactical showed off a YouTube vid of 4 school bands playing a Halo piece together – apparently, this was only the second time they’d played it as a group. Not bad!(Louis Wu 12:41:30 UTC)

Blinding stopped by to announce a ‘Forging Contest’ – he’s looking for a Forged map he can use to make machinima, and (for now, at least), the winner will get to have their map used in a Halo 3 machinima. (Eventually, if he makes enough money from Google’s AdSense, he’ll offer other goodies – but…

The Spawn.com website is giving away two complete sets of the McFarlane Halo 3 Series 1 figures – just fill in the form here, and you might win! (Hurry; contest ends next Thursday.)(Louis Wu 12:36:02 UTC)

oriol003 wanted us to know about a news post at Grunts R Us – apparently, a significant number of the Recon winners from the Valentines Day playlist have been ‘hacked’, and had their accounts stolen. (I have no way of verifying this information – but for the purposes of this newspost, we’ll assume it’s true.)…

Dan Baker contacted us and told us that because he was disappointed with Halo: Uprising, he decided to do something about it. He’s started his own Halo comic – penciled, inked, painted in Photoshop, laid out in InDesign. He’s going to be providing it in two formats – an online version posted panel by panel…

Digikid pointed out that Spriggs Episode 7 has been released; currently there’s only a DivX download available, but more is coming. 16 minutes, 87 mb, the story is getting far more coherent. (No less silly – but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.) Go watch!(Louis Wu 01:13:26 UTC)

Lani let us know that Halownage is running a small 32-player online tournament – play starts and ends on March 20, with Microsoft points, XBL subscriptions, and HoC credits on the line. Go read the Halownage forum post for the full details.(Louis Wu 01:08:31 UTC)