Category: HBO

Today’s One One Se7en is Stuntmutt’s New Year’s wish to you… it’s sweet, in a groany sort of way.(Louis Wu 23:29:48 UTC)

Ducain, then NOKYARD, sent word of a new speedrun through Halo – 90 minutes, start to finish, all in one shot. (The actual downloads are broken up by level, but that’s just to be reasonable, bandwidth-wise.) Swing by High Speed Halo for all the details. Congrats to slYnki for the impressive achievement!(Louis Wu 23:29:27 UTC)

Computer and Video Games put up an article ripping into Halo’s story, and questioning the value of stories in video games in general. The article seems a bit shallow, but everyone’s got their own perspective, I guess.(Louis Wu 23:29:04 UTC)

Yesterday morning, RVideo posted a cool movie showing a first-person view from a Warthog; it’s not true first-person, but a modified chasecam perspective that simulates a first-person view. His forum post explains what you’re looking at (and the problems involved in collecting the footage). He released this in DivX 6.4 format (link is in the…

Lt Tuma sent word of a trailer he’d made, and posted on YouTube – audio comes (mostly) from the Casino Royale trailer, video comes from lots and lots and lots of different Halo sources. Really well put together, great choices – go watch it!(Louis Wu 23:28:44 UTC)

Seven new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section this week – give ’em a once-over!(Louis Wu 23:27:42 UTC)

A couple of days ago, Dielectric mentioned on our forum that Joyride had sent out a press release stating that the Heretic Grunt action figure had been cancelled… and that the Halo 2 figure collection was now finished. No more!(Louis Wu 23:27:15 UTC)

Friday afternoon posting spree! First up – 411mania.com posts their Top 5 Most Anticipated Games of 2007… Halo 3 comes in at number 4 on two editors’ lists, number 2 on two others, and number 3 on a third pair. Not bad!(Louis Wu 23:26:43 UTC)

There are a couple of new dissections of the Brute documentary you might find interesting – the Halo 3 Data Archive has one (thanks, Old Mattacus), and so does Rampancy.net (thanks, Narcogen). Get to reading!(Louis Wu 16:39:49 UTC)

A quick note about a new hoodie at the Bungie Store – this has been pictured before (in a Bungie Weekly Update), but has not been for sale until recently. Thanks to a few people who noticed – but Jonathan Rivas was first (a couple of days ago… I’ve been a bit overwhelmed for newsposting).(Louis…

Mark MacDonald, of GameVideos.com, gave us a heads-up about a new analysis video they’ve posted, picking apart the Brute Vidoc in minute detail. Downloadable versions are in the hundreds of megabytes, or you can stream it on their site. Looks like a thread has started on our forum – some folks are amused (or unhappy)…

In a Rampancy.net article about the Normal Mapping article at HaloDev, Narcogen noted another cool image by Veegie, over at DeviantART – go take a look, it’s great!(Louis Wu 19:04:30 UTC)

Over at Tied the Leader, there’s not a lot of new content this week (it IS a holiday week, after all), but there’s a thought-provoking article on rank, and what it means to most of us. Check it out! Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 17:30:27 UTC)

Interesting. Over at Joystiq, there’s a note about an ad in the latest issue of Gamepro magazine – if you buy the upcoming game Crackdown (specially marked boxes only) for $60, you also get a Halo 3 Beta invite. (Joystiq’s cynical take is that you’re paying $60 for the invite, and getting a free copy…

HaloDev has posted a ‘Feature Focus’ article – the first in a series of articles that will highlight various features of the upcoming Prometheus tool they’ve been working on for a while. This one looks at Normal Mapping (a variant of bumpmapping), and how Bungie uses it – and it has a fantastic example put…

bryboy remix sent us a link to a movie he’s made that’s being hosted by mythica.org; it’s a music video, set to Avenged Sevenfold’s ‘Warmness on the Soul’ (WMP9, 66 mb). I’m not sure I know what’s going on in it – but it’s pretty; nice camera angles, interesting effects. I’d like to take this…

Wow, that’s gotta be one of the most groanworthy titles for a One One Se7en comic ever.(Louis Wu 13:55:31 UTC)

Elnea wrote to point out a creation so cool it’s hot – hot pink, that is. She’s done a boatload of work to add Spartan Armor to… Barbie. Yes, Barbie. (Image is just under 200k.) She’s got removable helmet bits (she needs them, because her head is so big that when the helmet is on,…

Major Silva stopped by to announce the opening of the UNSCDF Blog, where staffers from that Halo news site can better express their personal opinions. Swing by to read opinions about Ghosts of Onyx.(Louis Wu 13:47:25 UTC)

Yesterday, Sniping Ajax pointed out that IGN posted their 2006 wrapup video – top 10 gaming news items from the past year. Halo made number 10, mostly on the strength of the X06 info (Halo Wars, Peter Jackson’s new stuff) plus news of the upcoming Halo 3.(Louis Wu 13:45:40 UTC)