Category: HBO

The MLG Halo 3 Film Festival is now in its public voting phase – 200 videos have been narrowed down to 20, 5 in each of 4 categories. Go watch, and vote for your favorites! There’s some decent money on the line for the winners… so pick carefully! Thanks, trigger119.(Louis Wu 21:56:36 UTC)

Xbox.com and Ziddio (a division of Comcast) have teamed up to sponsor a Halo machinima contest: “Halo 3: A Call to Arms.” Create a short (20 second – 2 minute) machinima project, win, and you’ve got a shot at a home theater system, a VIP trip for 2 to the first MLG event of 2008,…

Halo Uprising #2, the second of Marvel’s four-episode Halo storyline, is (after many delays) due to be released tomorrow. You can see a six-page preview of it (plus the cover and table of contents) over at the MySpace Comic Books MySpace Blog, though – thanks, So Hood. (Louis Wu 19:53:16 UTC)

So Gamestop increased sales by almost 60% over last year at this time, increased third-quarter earnings by more than 200% over last year, exceeded predictions for the quarter by 30%… and STILL lost 7.2% of its stock price today. (The market is worried about the fourth quarter.) This stuff is voodoo. Top-selling games for the…

John_117 got his hands on the Halo 3 Official Soundtrack (released today), and posted a mini-review in our forum. Go read what he thinks!(Louis Wu 19:26:04 UTC)

Spawn.com has a whole bunch of new screenshots of the final McFarlane Series 1 action figures – thanks, P1 Groupe Italia. (Some of the shots are older – some are not. None are dated.)(Louis Wu 17:39:16 UTC)

SilverBrin has made a bunch of Halo-related music in the past; he’s back, with a piece he created for the MySpace Halo 3 Soundtrack contest a month or two back. It’s called ‘Lost Spartan’, and this is what he had to say about it:”My objective was to write something that I wanted to hear while…

Mass Effect is released today in the US – and Another Halo Comic Strip is there to comment. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 16:38:00 UTC)

Bart Gordon pointed out an article in DC Velocity’s current issue on upcoming changes in the protection of retail sales. DC Velocity is a logistics trade magazine (Halo 3 made the cover!), and the article is talking about enhanced RFID chips that can actually enable an electronic-based item (like a video game) at checkout. (That…

AusQB posted a screenshot compilation on YouTube – this wouldn’t really be news, except that he’s actually got a Bungie.net group, Ar7is7s of Halo, devoted to cool shots. (The screenshot compilation is pretty well-done, but the shots themselves suffer tremendously from being forced into YouTube’s tiny, overcompressed format.) Swing by the B.net group if you’re…

Xupaosso has kicked off a website called ‘Weekly Forge Contest’, which houses a… well, you can probably guess. Week One – build a Slayer map on Guardian using at least two crates. Read the page for full rules and a description of the goals. (No prizes; this is all about making cool stuff.) (Louis Wu…

Nitro288 pointed out a fun glitch found by AxS Kamikaze – not at all sure what caused it, but man, that Phantom pilot needs driving lessons. (Louis Wu 16:00:55 UTC)

Heh – Ice V spent considerable effort setting up a Rube Goldberg-style suicide on The Pit; the saved film doesn’t seem to be available, but the YouTube version’s still pretty cool. There’s a forum thread started by a friend of his at Bungie.net, for comments – thanks, InAmb3rClad.(Louis Wu 15:33:23 UTC)

MLGPro.com has an interview with their league commissioner, John Nelson, about the changes to gametypes that are made possible by the flexibility in Halo 3. There’s also plenty of info about what will, and won’t, be included in competition setups; for example, maps with shield doors will NOT be included, nor will equipment. It’s a…

Contact Harvest went on sale 3 weeks ago – and the press release sent around yesterday (visible, among other places, at Game Daily) suggests it’s a hit. It debuted at #3 on the November 18 New York Times Bestseller list, and is still at #4 this week. (You probably have to be logged in to…

Z pointed out an article written by Steam, over at 360WTF; it covers some of the top montages made in Halo 2, the Halo 3 beta, and Gears of War. (Examples are included.) Go watch! (Louis Wu 14:37:00 UTC)

I saw this article via Google News yesterday morning – but passed on front-paging it for a number of reasons. Anton P. Nym noted it on our forum yesterday afternoon – but I was busy, so I didn’t take a second look. When I got up this morning, the report, from a company called ‘BrandIntel’,…

If you missed the initial announcement of the upcoming Halo Downloadable Content, or the followup screenshots, you should swing by Bungie.net, and read this story. Actually, even if you DIDN’T miss that other stuff, you should read the story. A large chunk of it is a Q&A with Chris Barrett, the creative director of DLC…

Stuntmutt looks at the downloadable version of the original Halo (due on December 11) in today’s One One Se7en. Funny man.(Louis Wu 20:17:45 UTC)

Blackstar has been creating new medals for new experiences in Halo 3 for a few weeks; we’ve finally gotten around to adding a page for them. His latest medal is ‘What Goes Around’, awarded to bark0de for an amusing death on Sandtrap. Check out the whole collection!(Louis Wu 20:08:52 UTC)