Category: HBO

Over at Team Xbox, there’s a press release about the First Annual Dream Awards, a production of Hollywood Arts, a non-profit that reaches at-risk teens through the arts. This year, they’re honoring Tommy Tallarico, the man behind Video Games Live – and the awards ceremony will be a fundraiser for the organization. They’ll be auctioning…

MLG has posted their 2007 Pro Circuit cities and dates – the playoff and national locations are still to be announced, but the regular season will take place in North Carolina, New Jersey, Texas, Illinois, and Florida from mid-April through the end of September. Hexudus was the first to point it out.(Louis Wu 13:08:28 UTC)

Paul “stickygerbils” Maestri wrote to point out Halo Heads 45 – to remind you of that idiot we’ve all played online with. (The sad part is, they rarely understand what the problem is…(Louis Wu 13:05:07 UTC)

icu noticed that Episode 34 of The Riot was posted a couple of days ago – community news, and more. This is the first ep that’s available in streaming Flash format right from the site. If you choose to download, it’s 15 minutes, 6.2 mb.(Louis Wu 18:36:56 UTC)

Looks like one of the oldest Halo websites out there, Halo Planet (née Battleground: Halo), has been reborn as Planet Halo. Details about what that means to you, the visitor, can be found in this news post.(Louis Wu 15:55:47 UTC)

XerxdeeJ stopped by with the Tuesday update of Tied the Leader – you’ll find a clan profile of SBG Omega (you’ll learn what ‘SBG’ stands for), a great writeup of a Turkey Shoot, and a 22 Questions (well, 10, actually) interview with Calyber, of the Frag Dolls. First Class!(Louis Wu 15:44:28 UTC)

Pezcore kicked off a new gaming blog – the most recent article discusses girl gamers, and what it means to ‘fit in’ to the gaming community. (Halo is mentioned, because the most famous girl clans play it.) He’s looking for feedback – go tell him what you think!(Louis Wu 15:32:52 UTC)

Wow. I’m not sure what to say about this editorial at IGN – it basically says “Bungie better make sure the beta is PERFECT, or it will derail the Halo 3 Hype Machine (™®©) and kill the entire game.” Yeah, whatever. Thanks, I guess, to AfroRyan, who noticed it.(Louis Wu 14:53:04 UTC)

Over at Bungie.net, there’s a writeup of the 2007 Winter Pentathlon – a venerable Bungie tradition involving lots of hand-eye dexterity and beer. (Normally, those don’t go together very well. As far as I can tell, the Pentathlon was normal.) KP’s team, the Mancannons, were bumped out the Halo 3 4v4 tourney early on -…

MereCatfish let us know about LifePod #7 – this episode of the HaloCE Community podcast has a Map of the Month feature. 24 minutes, 22 mb. Go listen.(Louis Wu 13:51:59 UTC)

Mister Froggy pointed out Halo, Articulated #11 – I gotta say, I’ve had this exact feeling when replaying old favorites! Good stuff. (Louis Wu 13:44:06 UTC)

Over at MLGPro.com, you’ll find a Player Pro Feature on Karma linked off the front page. Flush, in shape, on top – he’s living his dream. Go watch. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 13:41:05 UTC)

MTV.com has an interesting article about Crackdown, and the things its developers have done to make sure it gets into the hands of gamers. The Halo 3 beta invite that will come with each launch copy is not by far the only thing added to be sure that players ‘get it’ – I don’t have…

Interesting – word from Luke Smith is that there will probably be a Killzone 2 playable demo released before the Halo 3 beta kicks off. Why is this Halo news? Because Sony is playing the same game Microsoft played before Christmas – hype people up about the next must-have product (in that case, Halo 3)…

Today’s One One Se7en should have gone live a few hours ago – I hate when real life gets in the way of humor. Still funny, though, if you spend a few minutes browsing our forum…(Louis Wu 21:56:18 UTC)

QuickTactical pointed out a trailer for an upcoming machinima project, ‘Fireteam Bravo’. His forum post contains links to a WMP9 version and a streaming YouTube version – and I liked it enough that we’re hosting a mirror of the WMP9, as well as a QuickTime version. Short, sweet, nice action, nice camerawork. About 16 mb.…

Machinima.com is putting together some tips and tricks for making machinima using Halo 2 – Part 1, now available at YouTube, shows how to get rid of the camerman’s weapon, and how to get rid of the HUD. Great start! Thanks, Adam Kovic.(Louis Wu 21:50:37 UTC)

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a pretty funny presentation of a Halo fanfic. Today, Turtle Mann stopped by our forum to let us know that SnowGlobe Pro has turned that story into a piece of Halo machinima. Should bring a smile or two to your face…(Louis Wu 21:46:29 UTC)

Over at Rampancy.net, you’ll find a downloadable transcription of the Third Movement of the Delta Halo Suite, put together by Devin – as usual, log in to see the download links. PDF, MIDI sound file, and a PrintMusic file are all available.(Louis Wu 21:06:14 UTC)

For what it’s worth, halo3.com is now saying that Phase Two Registration is open. The servers are being hammered pretty hard – but this is the page you’ll eventually need to get to. Good luck.(Louis Wu 18:47:11 UTC)