Category: HBO

jtdoepke created an animation in Lightwave showing off his concept of a UNSC ship entering slipspace. Local versions are about 3 mb each, in QT and WMP9. Nice!(Louis Wu 15:17:54 UTC)

Mid7night went back to his X-Plane Longsword – retextured, now. Check out the pics! If you want to see how it’s changed, here’s the original post.(Louis Wu 13:47:58 UTC)

All sorts of Halo 2 Vista info – Achieve360Points added to the achievement info released yesterday with pictures of the achievements (thanks, Mutated Waffle), evidence surfaces of a beta for Halo 2 Vista on Games for Windows – Live, and the system requirements for the game have been posted. (Thanks to rapture, at H2Vista, for…

Sigafoos told us that The Riot 101 is now available – 29 minutes (12 mb) of Halo wackiness. When you can fit Halo and the Princess Bride into the same program, you gotta be doing SOMETHING right. (Louis Wu 19:20:04 UTC)

bndud let us know that Robbers Unite, Episode 1, is now available on their website. It seems to have potential, though this episode dragged for me a bit. (Could be that I really, really, REALLY need sleep, so judge for yourself.) (Louis Wu 19:14:51 UTC)

TheGhost pointed out a thread on H2Vista.net’s forum that references a full list of Halo 2 Vista Achievements at MCGNews.net. (No guarantee these are real… but it’s quite possible.)(Louis Wu 19:11:01 UTC)

WRAL.com has an article about a new media research report called Gamemeasure, that looks at the entire gaming market (apparently something that others don’t do) – some interesting numbers, though I’m not 100% sure I believe them all. Fun fact that’s cool if true: 21% of all males between the ages of 18 to 34…

Red vs Blue episode 94 is out now for sponsors, in two flavors – 250k and 400k bitrates. As they come down the home stretch, they’re back to their roots – and the result is glorious. I just watched this in a room full of people, with headphones plugged into the laptop; the laugh-out-loud moments…

KP might have discovered the next big thing in Halo play – or maybe not. Either way, his narrative is hilarious. Go read.(Louis Wu 12:47:19 UTC)

darthbob noticed that Gamespot has an article about District, the second of two new exclusive maps coming out with Halo 2 Vista next month (the first is Uplift, profiled by GameSpy recently). 6 new screenshots – this level looks to be an amalgam of Turf, Terminal, and Outskirts. Check it out!(Louis Wu 05:21:57 UTC)

Mister Froggy posted Halo, Articulated #29 – Sarge’s true nature comes out.(Louis Wu 05:01:23 UTC)

I posted this last night (Funkmon noticed it) – but somehow, the news post vanished. Thanks to J23 for getting me to look again. Once again – Edgeworks has posted Episode 5 of the Heretic; the Praetor draws suspicion upon himself during the search for the Heretic. Voice acting continues to be superlative, cinematography is…

The Bungie Weekly Update is now available at Bungie.net – a nice look at the Halo 3 fusion core, some critical information about Halo 2 Matchmaking (be sure you read this before next week!), and some tidbits we’ve come to expect about the Halo 3 dev process. Go read! (As usual, it’s also available in…

The title of today’s One One Se7en tells me that not only is Stuntmutt willing to recycle old jokes, but that he’s unsure enough about your quickness, as readers, that he feels the need to EXPLAIN the joke to you. If I were you, I’d feel offended. Maybe even boycott the strip. That’ll teach ‘im.…

In what seems to be becoming a pattern, there are 7 new entries in the Fan Fiction section this week. Go read ’em!(Louis Wu 13:30:51 UTC)

This Spartan Life has posted Module 5 of Episode 4 – Body Count. This time around, it’s a debate between Ann Coulter, queen of neocons, and Tom Anderson, founder of MySpace, over the validity (and usefulness) of the Patriot Act. (The actual topic description is ‘Homeland Security Vs. Civil Liberties’.) We try to stay out…

Archie Gates, the guy behind the Needler songs, has kicked off a new project; he’s writing songs about games, and the first one out of the box is called ‘Achievement Unlocked’. It’s not really Halo-related, but most Halo players will be able to relate – it’s pretty darned funny! It’s available for free, streaming off…

Bungie’s latest Halo Humpday didn’t go so well for them on the virtual battlefield… but they made up for it in the writeup. (This picture is priceless. Priceless, I tell you.) They played Certain Affinity, and they played on new Certain Affinity-built maps, and they got OWNED. Such is life. (And death. Quite a lot…

Omegga stopped by to point out iMega, a new tool he’s developed for HaloPC dedicated servers. Gives you a lot of the control you get with the HaloCE dedicated server.(Louis Wu 05:09:47 UTC)

Gamerscore Blog has a story about an exclusive sneak peek at a Halo 2 Vista trailer; sign up for Microsoft’s Games for Windows newsletter, get on the 24 hour sneak preview list for the trailer. (You’ll get an email when the trailer is available – no word on when that will be. I didn’t even…