Category: HBO

Nabsuh created an animation showing off his UNSC fleet, and some space scenery – he’s offered download links, or a YouTube stream. Nice work!(Louis Wu 13:31:32 UTC)

Cody Miller put together a fantastic tribute to a classic Bungie AI – don’t forget Leela this Valentines Day! (Yes, there’s Halo content in this.) A must-see for any longtime Bungie fan.(Louis Wu 13:23:09 UTC)

Elnea’s put up a special Halo Action Figures Theater comic to celebrate Valentines Day – love means never having to say you’re sorry. Especially for comics like this. (<3, Elnea.)(Louis Wu 13:20:45 UTC)

Laird found a really cool minisite that McFarlane put up for their Series 1 Halo action figures – it’s a really-well-done reproduction of the Halo 3 game interface. (I liked it enough that I grabbed a local copy – if this one goes down at some point, we’ll have a backup for posterity.)(Louis Wu 13:15:54…

There’s new concept art up at Halo Wars – check out what a beached alien whale might look like! (If you’re reading this post days or weeks after it’s written, I apologize – the Halo Wars site has no way to link to old news. Scroll back until you find the post dated 02-13-2008.) Thanks…

Last night, Bungie posted information about the special Valentines Day playlist that goes live today at 10 am PST (1pm EST, or 5pm UTC). It’ll run through Monday, so you’ve got a few days to get in and play this one. There will be prizes. First we heard of it was from Dan the Stick,…

Product-Reviews has an article about ‘Halo 3’ moddied controllers – they’ve got duplicated buttons on the backside, where your fingers have a better chance of finding them, I guess. $70 gets you a controller with the A and B buttons underneath… $90 gets you one with all four buttons on the bottom. Me? I bet…

Call of Duty 4 is on top again in the LIVE activity list for the week of February 4… that’s two in a row! C’mon, Halo players… get online!(Louis Wu 15:26:10 UTC)

Time Glitch stopped by to announce ForgeHub Video Tutorial #5 – this one focuses on timed map events. Learn how to unfold new features in your map as the game progresses!(Louis Wu 15:05:52 UTC)

1UP.com has focused on Chris Burke, the guy behind This Spartan Life, in their latest installment of ‘Take this Job!’, a guide to finding jobs in the games industry. Go see how and why he does it!(Louis Wu 15:04:09 UTC)

MSNBC has an article about US soldiers using Halo 3 to reduce stress – psychologists believe that for soldiers, games like Halo 3 can actually be therapeutic. Interesting read!(Louis Wu 15:01:20 UTC)

AxS CALiBER was inspired by the ‘Master Chief Sucks at Halo’ series of videos to create Master Chief: Pwned Life – it takes the opening cutscene from Halo 3, and overlays a new dialogue track. Great work combining Halo 3 Soundtrack music with the cutscene to remove stuff like Cortana’s voiceover! Funny stuff – thanks,…

Oh, heck, while we’re telling you about Valentines and comics, we might as well update One One Se7en. Today’s joke made me cry – but hey, you might have a different reaction. (Probably not, though.)(Louis Wu 13:04:53 UTC)

Halo Action Figure Theater was also updated today – Episode 126 is up a little later than Elnea expected because she was creating RvB Valentines for you to use. (Warning: some of these are… well, not polite.) Funny Valentines and mystery watermelons… what MORE could you want?(Louis Wu 12:56:06 UTC)

Okay, I’m officially too frickin’ busy for life. AGAIN, I forgot to post yesterday’s Another Halo Comic Strip. You still have time to make use of it, though – ZZoMBiE13’s made you some AHCS Valentines; you can cut them out and customize them before tomorrow, no problem!(Louis Wu 12:17:35 UTC)

In case you were taking the whole auction for charity thing too seriously (hard not to, when the top bid is almost $1300 now), Luke has interviewed Frankie about his motivations and inspirations for the piece. You can shovel that stuff up and grow flowers with it. (Great imagery, though.) Thanks, Spartan Jag.(Louis Wu 19:41:54…

Ars Technica has a story about a reader who signed up for the “Buy Xbox 360, Get Halo 3 Free” promotion (we mentioned this promotion back in November)… apparently, there are some issues with actually RECEIVING the free game. There’ve been some rumblings in our own forum about this (here’s one post, I remember others)…

Heh – Hawty McBloggy noticed another Halo-related custom Transformer on eBay; this one changes from the Master Chief to a Warthog (sort of). I got a lot of flak the last time I posted a Transformer auction – folks were suggesting it was a total ripoff, all the guy had done was paint a transformer…

McCann Erickson, the ad agency that came up with the Jake Courage aspect of the Believe campaign that launched Halo 3, has put up a movie showing how they did it. Interesting stuff! (I had no idea all the pics got stolen…)(Louis Wu 18:25:48 UTC)

We mentioned the awards Halo snagged at the Visual Effects Society yesterday – Bungie has posted a short interview with CJ Cowan, one of the winners, discussing what the awards are all about, and what they had to do to be considered. Pretty cool read!(Louis Wu 15:14:00 UTC)