Category: HBO

SodaGod has released PIE: Chapter 3, the third installment of one of the better machinima projects I’ve seen to date. Watch it carefully – it might confuse you. It’s worth the time, though – cinematography, storyline, voice acting – it’s all top-notch. 11+ minutes, almost 100 mb. It’s available in WMP9 format (either from us…

The art submissions have been building up since late November; as always, I apologize for the tardiness. Swing by the Miscellaneous Art section for 72 new entries – 95 pictures in all. As always, there’s a bunch of spectacular stuff in there (along with artwork which shows more love and enthusiasm than, say, raw talent…

Rockslider has written up another ‘Frontline With Suzie’ article – this time, she’s interviewing the jackals outside of the brig on Truth and Reconciliation – the one holding Captain Keyes.(Louis Wu 14:26:27 UTC)

Jordan117 found an interesting photo yesterday; it’s groan-worthy, it’s One One Se7en related, and Stuntmutt WASN’T involved. Go cry.(Louis Wu 13:32:39 UTC)

Red vs Blue Episode 89, “The Haystack”, is now up in Flash format for Sponsors. Sheila’s having issues… and there’s some funky stuff going on in the afterlife. Erm, the cave. Uh… whatever. Burnie didn’t do a very good job of announcing this puppy, so I’m 11 hours late. Psychophan7 even beat the RvB front…

Eddie, from Rookie Rabbit Productions, sent us a note to let us know that The Spartan Effect, Episode 4 is now online. It’s funny, it’s well-filmed, go download it. (If you’ve missed the first three eps, we announced them here: One | Two | Three.) Because their downloadable versions are hosted at Filefront (which sort…

Amped eSports has an article up that looks at the major changes gone through by the top 8 pro Halo 2 teams in this offseason – if you’ve lost track of who’s playing for what team, this is a good piece to look at.(Louis Wu 13:09:14 UTC)

Mister Froggy wrote to point out Halo, Articulated #10. I’m not sure I fully understand it, because the figures in the strip are ALREADY 12″ tall… but hey, mine is not to reason why, mine is just to pass it along to you. Update: Mister Froggy points out that Joyride action figures are actually 7″…

The Bungie Weekly Update is a bit tired this week – hence the title ‘Weakly Update’, as dubbed by Frankie. They were all playing in their Halo Pentathlon, so there wasn’t much work done. Check out this cutting-room-floor pic to see why productivity dropped yesterday… Thanks to SteelGaribaldi for the first heads-up.(Louis Wu 12:48:44 UTC)

eMouse noticed that WizKids Games has announced a new collectable miniatures game called Halo ActionClix. (They already make HeroClix and HorrorClix.) There will be more than 80 unique miniature figures from the Halo universe – which will include ‘preview content from Halo 3’. Release date is set for September 2007 (which might imply, as Stuntmutt…

Luke McKay has whipped up another Halo-related sketch – it’s a helmetless version of Private Church. Check it out in his HBO gallery!(Louis Wu 17:37:43 UTC)

The Rule of 3 route for getting into the Halo 3 beta kicked off yesterday – but there are still a few parts that are unclear, to most fans. Stuntmutt’s take on the whole mess can be seen in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:10:05 UTC)

We got an interesting press release this morning – Kotobukiya, long known for making high-quality vinyl action figures, is getting into the Halo game. They will be releasing a series of 12″ figures from Halo 1, 2, and 3 over the coming year. Folks visiting Toy Fair 2007 at the end of next week in…

Bungie.net’s posted another Halo 3 Humpday writeup – a 2v2 match of old guys vs young, fit (well, okay, young) contractors. It’s pretty cool to hear that gravity is as changeable as any other gameplay attribute – makes you wonder what OTHER new options we’re going to see. Avateur was first with the news.(Louis Wu…

Some time ago, a site called HaloImpulse hosted flash signatures displaying Halo 2 stats. That site has since disappeared. AJay just wrote to us to tell us that he’s resurrected the script that generates these .sigs, and is willing to host them for whoever wants to use them as forum signatures around the net. Swing…

Eight new pieces are available for reading in the Fan Fiction section today – check ’em out!(Louis Wu 13:05:43 UTC)

elessar787 noticed a comment by Ninja 0n Fire on the Bungie.net forums – looks like Team Brutes is disappearing from the BTB Slayer playlist when Matchmaking playlists are next updated (which, according to last week’s BWU, should be in the next couple of weeks). Bummer – I sort of liked that gametype.(Louis Wu 12:59:44 UTC)

pooberry wanted to make sure that he and his friends didn’t just qualify for the Rule of 3 beta program – he wanted to qualify with style. The writeup is here.(Louis Wu 18:53:39 UTC)

JeBr0nie noticed a story at BetaNews discussing Yahoo’s plans to set up ‘Branded’ sites – including an upcoming one for Halo. The thread participants so far aren’t very impressed.(Louis Wu 18:48:27 UTC)

The big news this morning is the Bungie.net article on the Spartan Laser, posted last night. Even censored as it is, it’s chock-full of tasty morsels, not just about the Spartan Laser, but about the upcoming world of Halo 3. (Check out our forum for some of the speculation people are pulling from this.) Baratos…