Category: HBO

The auction of Frankie’s Mister Chief Masterpiece, for charity, is going astoundingly well – high bid is now over $1000, with four days to go! If you scroll down to the bottom of the auction, there are a number of questions asked by viewers – the most common of which is “Can I has Recon?”…

Back in November, we listed a bunch of talks to be given by Bungie employees at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, coming up next week. Today I heard from Mat “OMG TALK ABOUT ME” Noguchi, who’s now on the schedule… and it looks like an interesting session! Mat’s going to discuss how…

Heh – The Onion Radio News has a piece (it’s labeled ‘podcast’, but it’s only a minute long) on ‘blown skulls and nearly-fatal bowel movements’ seen since Halo 3 was released. Funny. Thanks, dzejms.(Louis Wu 19:47:09 UTC)

thehomeland ran across someone bragging that they’d gotten an extermination with a mongoose; he didn’t believe it, but the film is still in gizmo777’s fileshare. (It’s slot 1, labeled “WTF!!!”) thehomeland decided to make it more accessible to those without access to the film, so you can watch it on YouTube, or you can download…

Today’s Halo Action Figure Theater takes a turn for the weird. Well… a farther turn. Okay, so we’ve gone completely around now, and have begun spewing pea soup. Go read.(Louis Wu 17:06:18 UTC)

Obienator found a couple of funny vids from female gamers – you can watch OboeCrazy’s funny ode to ‘Standers’ (folks who join social matchmaking and don’t actually play, assuming that at least some of the time they’ll finish in the top 3 and thereby gain an experience point without having to participate), and you can…

Very awesome – Nannan Z. has recreated a vignette from Halo 3’s final run (if you haven’t played the game all the way through, this probably contains spoilers) – out of LEGO bits. You can view the piece, from a number of angles, either at MOCpages.com or Flickr. This one’s display-worthy, for sure. Thanks, Unique…

2phast wrote to say that the next Larry the Marine comic is up – I’m guessing Larry’s gonna have some trouble with this particular strategy.(Louis Wu 14:05:00 UTC)

The UK’s Times newspaper has a bit in its online News in Brief this morning about Universal Music that caught my eye:Universal Music, the record company whose artists include Amy Winehouse and Eminem, is advertising for monks to record an album of chants after the popularity of the Halo computer game. Dickon Stainer, from Universal,…

Pointless Lists has posted a series of stereoscopic Halo 3 screenshots, using the technique put forth by Kato a few months ago. If you’ve got 3D glasses, take a look! Update: whoa. Guess I should have checked our forum, first – Mike Carson (the guy behind Pointless Lists) mentioned this there about an hour ago.(Louis…

The Riot 86, with Community Awards results (though not the actual awards ceremony itself), is now available for your listening pleasure, at Second-Foundation.net. 30 minutes, 12 mb, with lots of community news on top of the awards stuff. Go listen!(Louis Wu 22:11:01 UTC)

Last month, Hawty McBloggy kicked off a ‘Caption This’ contest, asking for submissions regarding a shot of Joe Staten holding an enormous spike grenade. Today, she’s posted the results of that contest – she got nearly 500 submissions, and narrowing it down was tough. You can read the winner, along with a number of honorable…

GamingTV is running a ‘Laughs for Cash’ contest; you can read their front-page newspost about it, or just jump right to the announcement post on their forum for full details. Over $200 in prizes; submit a funny machinima, win cash. Check it out!(Louis Wu 20:03:46 UTC)

Darkspire Films wondered what Halo 3 would be like with extreme content enabled. Looks to be inspired by Quentin Tarantino. Pretty short (1:20 long), so go take a look!(Louis Wu 16:13:13 UTC)

This was supposed to go up yesterday – but… well, yesterday was something else. So it’s up today. Another Halo Comic Strip looks at what COULD have been… and says ‘thankya’.(Louis Wu 15:41:30 UTC)

Rockslider has found an interesting way to play the end of Tsavo Highway – it’s the acrobatic approach! Check it out.(Louis Wu 15:38:00 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has posted some of the most impressive shots that have gone up in the past two weeks at i <3 halo screenshots – check ’em out, and then browse through the rest of the amazing collection. She’s adding several every day – and there are more features coming soon.(Louis Wu 23:12:07 UTC)

Narcogen let us know that HaloMusic.com – erm, sorry, I mean Rampancy.net – has a whole bunch of new music and music musings for you today. MJCrascal21 has submitted ‘Follow our Brothers’, ‘To Kill a Demon’, and ‘Covenant Dance’ to the Sheet Music database (some audio coming soon), and Narcogen has added part three of…

In 2001, Halo was a finalist for 8 awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences – it won 4 of those. In 2005, Halo 2 was up for 6 awards – and again, won 4. This year, Halo 3 picked up a paltry two nominations (Outstanding Achievement in Online Game Play and Action…

Spartan Jag was the first to notice that DigitalPh33r’s Arby ‘n’ Chief Episode 4 was up at Machinima.com (you can also find it on YouTube – thanks, Vincent). Topical – it focuses on melee attacks, and how they work (or don’t). Arby’ll probably take less verbal abuse by the end of the month…(Louis Wu 13:38:07…