Category: HBO

Interesting; cortinator points out that GeeVee.com is offering a beta service whereby they’ll automatically convert your fileshare’d saved film clips to streamable video… this could be pretty useful for folks without a capture card! Check it out.(Louis Wu 19:41:58 UTC)

Thanks to Edelman; I hadn’t noticed the link to screens earlier.Standoff: 1080p (517K) | 480p (121K)Rat’s Nest: 1080p (470K) | 480p (106K)Foundry: 1080p (441K) | 480p (102K)Gotta say… they’re pretty! (Louis Wu 17:58:01 UTC)

Wow, this is truly strange to me. According to EarthTimes.org, Lycos has posted its 8th annual list of the most popular toys and video games, based on web search activity… and Halo 3 came in 10th, well below 6th-place Halo 2. How is this possible? Are Lycos users living in the past, or something?(Louis Wu…

Over at Xbox.com, the big announcement alluded to in last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update has gone up – on December 11, 3 new multiplayer maps will be available for download, for 800 Microsoft Points ($10 US). These will all be free by spring 2008, just in time for the NEXT wave of downloadable content. Go…

Stuntmutt sent us links to a couple of Flash games available on Australian websites; there’s ‘Halo Fore’, a golf game on the Red v Blue charity site, and ‘Grunt Attack’, a twitch shooter. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 17:19:29 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue has posted the last part of Chapter One of his Reclaimer comic – we’ll be moving on to Team Viper soon.(Louis Wu 14:44:17 UTC)

John_117 has updated our forum on his progress of his Cortana/Master Chief wall painting – you can see the latest screenshot in his post.(Louis Wu 14:42:42 UTC)

Also at Rampancy.net this morning are two music transcriptions from spartan182 – a partial solution of the Halo 3 Announcement Trailer, for piano, and Unforgotten (the main menu screen music). You must be logged in to download.(Louis Wu 14:41:09 UTC)

Rampancy.net has a rant from VVV about how broken Halo 3 is. I have to say that I disagree with him on so many points that a rebuttal is pointless; we’re not talking the same language. Others may not feel the same.(Louis Wu 14:38:20 UTC)

Seraphim let us know that the Metroid Online Map Team has released a pair of maps (in Release Candidate status), for testing. If you’re a Halo Custom Edition player, grab these puppies and give ’em a try! (The release announcement contains screenshots and a movie, so you can see a little of what you’re getting.)(Louis…

Capt Spanish has been working quite a bit on Terminal graphics; he’s created a bunch of custom-made images that took their inspiration from Halo 3’s terminals, but have his own touches. You can find 4 separate designs, in two form factors each, in his forum post. We’re still working on making the vector formats available…

This summer was pretty rough, real-life-wise… and then Halo 3 came out. Art submissions have suffered the worst from this; the Wallpaper and Misc Art queues haven’t been touched for many, many months. I’m still working on the Misc Art queue (it’s enormous)… but the Wallpaper queue is cleared out, I think. 84 new images…

Sharkiest pointed out a movie on Gametrailers done by Sabin17 – it’s a remake of the Matrix Revolutions trailer using Halo footage. Great synching!(Louis Wu 22:05:26 UTC)

Everything Awesome has 10 “Don’ts” for Halo 3 – some are screenshots, some are movies, all are pretty funny.(Louis Wu 22:03:56 UTC)

Second Foundation is now providing a live video feed of their recording of the Riot podcast, shown on mogulus.com. (I’m not sure how to find it, and there’s no infiormation on the site itself, nor on Mogulus… but I guess this will become clearer over time.) The current episode, #74, filmed/recorded this morning, has news,…

So Elnea’s been making Halo art, movies, music, and comics for a while now… but she has this weird aversion to bandwidth help. She creates stuff that’s WAY above the mainstream, quality-wise… but she doesn’t want to be a burden, or something. Last night, though, she crossed a line. She posted remastered versions of five…

Mid7night returns to X-Plane Halo building – and adds the UNSC Marathon-class Cruiser, and the Covenant Assault Carrier to his fleet. The screenshots don’t show very much – but based on his previous work, I’d say these are probably pretty cool! If you have X-Plane, go grab ’em.(Louis Wu 16:10:01 UTC)

This popped up on Google News; I don’t know how well it works, since i don’t have a machine I can install it on at the moment, but Shifu-Hacks has a small (200k) program that can show you various armor permutations. Looks like it runs on WIndows XP.(Louis Wu 16:07:26 UTC)

The Boston Globe has an article that suggests that playing games like Halo 3 increases your ability to spot threats quickly – and would be useful training for airport security screeners. How many of them would protest that training regimen, do you think?(Louis Wu 16:04:01 UTC)

LX925 fell into one of the generators on Snowbound… and lost his limbs. (A larger version of this screen can be found in his screenshots collection on B.net.)(Louis Wu 16:02:05 UTC)