Category: HBO

ZZoMBiE13 seems to be trying to outpun Stuntmutt in today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip. To make up for the awful punchline, he’s providing you with some killer artwork. Seems like a fair trade.(Louis Wu 16:10:53 UTC)

This looks pretty cool – an open-source stats manager for OS X. Unfortunately, I can’t get it to work on my machine; maybe it’s PowerPC only?(Louis Wu 14:01:01 UTC)

Halopen is hosting a Create-A-Hero contest; come up with a Halo-based superhero, right down to the costume, and you might find him (or her) featured in Halopen’s upcoming ‘Superheroes’ movie. (Winners will also get some prizes from Gamestop.) Go read all the details, and get to designing! (Louis Wu 13:59:32 UTC)

Looks like the Legendary Edition made it into Toms Hardware Holiday Buyers Guide this year – thanks, RVideo.(Louis Wu 13:57:06 UTC)

Whoa. Don’t know how long this is going to last… but today’s Gold Box Deal of the Day at Amazon.com is the Halo 3 Legendary Edition… for $59.99. If you want the Cadillac for the price of a Taurus… go buy. Now.(Louis Wu 13:12:17 UTC)

The New York Daily News needed help narrowing down your videogame choices for the holidays – so they went to the Penny Arcade team. Their advice? You can’t go wrong with Halo 3. Thanks, Quikthnkr.(Louis Wu 18:56:27 UTC)

argodaemon let us know that the Halouvre has a boatload of new content, built up over the past few months. If you haven’t been recently, you haven’t been!(Louis Wu 18:23:09 UTC)

Today’s One One Se7en bugs me a little.(Louis Wu 15:53:55 UTC)

Once again, I’d like to apologize for the inexcusably long queue for our artwork sections; I’ve just posted over 50 new images in the Miscellaneous Art section, and this only clears the queue through August 1. Yes, that means there’s still four months of backlog! On the plus side, I’ve also added a (long-asked for)…

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer Chapter Two, Part Three is now online – looks like Viper’s woken up something… bad.(Louis Wu 11:18:06 UTC)

Blayne Scott has created a bunch of custom Halo action figures – he’s currently selling them on eBay, because he’s moving. Swing by his forum post for links and pics (there’s some pretty cool stuff in there!). Near the bottom there’s a general link to ALL his eBay auctions; there are a bunch of non-customized…

Apparently, the idea of video game music performed by professional orchestras is catching on; Music 4 Games has an article about a show coming up in Holland in a couple of weeks. Games in Concert will contain music from over a dozen video games, including Halo. The performance will be conducted by Laura Karpman.(Louis Wu…

Sigafoos wrote to say that The Riot 75 is now up – 16 mb, 41 minutes of good stuff. There’s an interview with Athena and Excardon of halo3.junk.ws, and the beginning of the Community Awards (no registration needed to vote). Go listen!(Louis Wu 23:20:15 UTC)

In the midst of this holiday weekend, I managed to forget to post the week’s Fan Fiction submissions – they’re up now. Sorry. Go read.(Louis Wu 17:18:04 UTC)

Kotaku has a pic of a Master Chief cake made by a reader for her husband (well, commissioned, I guess). Rice Crispy Treats for brains! Mmmmm… thanks, Ross Mills.(Louis Wu 17:11:43 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a couple of new Halo 3 themed Xbox 360 faceplates on eBay – go see if your Xbox needs a lift!(Louis Wu 16:33:03 UTC)

Yahoo says Halo 3 is one of the games you should be looking at for holiday parties. Right up there with Smarty Pants and Super Mario Galaxy. Thanks, TylerDurden76.(Louis Wu 17:48:34 UTC)

Maximum Fear let us know that the Campaign Contest kicked off by Community Projects (we mentioned it on the 17th) is now over – the winner is Ezandora, who submitted a run of the Covenant which scored an insane 347,620 points. Read about it on Bungie.net.(Louis Wu 15:44:50 UTC)

Another Halo Comic Strip looks at a problem many of us have right now… excuse me, I need to go make some soup.(Louis Wu 13:49:45 UTC)

We’re a bit late this time around… but Sodagod reminded us that his Inside Halo news program is still going strong on Machinima.com – Episode 2 was released a couple of weeks ago. Watching it gives you a whirlwind overview of the Halo community over the past month or so (with lots of humor) -…