Category: HBO

Hawaiian Pig won our Design a Faceplate Contest back in August, and he was contacted by a fan named Randy Goth who wanted to use the design to make his own faceplate. HP had to modify the design a bit to fit the template Randy was using – and last night posted the pics Randy…

Interesting – over at the Halo 3 Forum at Bungie.net, I noticed a thread about animated flip books made by DFlyDen – they look really cool! (You can see the Halo-related ones, along with several other kinds, in videos at GameTrailers.com. They’re not for sale anywhere.)(Louis Wu 23:56:22 UTC)

PEZ wrote to say that the Halo 2 Recent Games Listing and the Halo 2 Live Game Saver have been integrated at halowiki.net – you can now easily see (and save) any games you’re really proud of with just a couple of clicks. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:39:50 UTC)

We got word from bryboy remix, reminding us about the Halopeño So Hot Editing Contest, ending in just a few days. (Deadline for submissions is midnight, December 18, and winners will be announced on Christmas day.) As a refresher, all you need are moviemaking tools; the content is provided by HBO’s cutscene library (video) and…

Legend, from Halo Base, sent word about an interview with Cody Miller, the Halo world speedrunning champion (heh). It’s primarily a discussion of his 3 and a half hour Legendary No-Deaths run that won this year’s Twin Galaxies challenge – it’s a fascinating read! (The Halo Base staff confused Cody with Mike Miller at one…

Last year, we mentioned the Gamertag Radio Xbox Community Awards almost in passing – and we even WON one! The site was young, and maybe a little rough… but they’ve really polished things up this past year, and the awards ceremony this year is chock-full of Xbox luminaries, humor bits, and music. There’s even a…

Xboxic uncovered a blog post from YLA G, a Microsoft employee who’s part of the Xbox Elite Team Belgium, that reports about a 7 minute Halo 3 trailer to be available on Xbox Live Marketplace next week.The clip will show the emergence of the Brutes as “playable characters” in the game and it will contain…

Over at Bungie.net, there’s a new article about Certain Affinity, a soon-to-be Bungie Spinoff; Max Hoberman, who’s been the multiplayer design lead for Halo 2 and Halo 3, has been hard at work with a hand-picked crew building the Halo 2 maps that will be released for 360 owners this spring. At some point soon,…

Paul Maestri sends word that Halo Heads 33 is online – and I must say, it’s rather surreal. Not unpleasant… just odd.(Louis Wu 03:22:06 UTC)

According to Major Nelson, there’s a new Red vs Blue Holiday Video, and a Theme for your 360, available on Xbox Marketplace. (No pictures I can find online, yet.) Thanks, darthbob100.(Louis Wu 18:13:19 UTC)

Today’s One One Se7en is much more understandable if you’re British.(Louis Wu 15:17:54 UTC)

This popped up yesterday, but I forgot to mention it. Apparently, one of the UK sites that has been given a set of beta slots to give away to fans has decided to SELL those slots. Microsoft was not amused, and warned any site caught doing this would be cut off from all future Microsoft…

Merecatfish points out that LifePod 3 is up – highlight is an interview with mapmaker NeuroKoNeza. 30 minutes long, 28 mb. Check it out!(Louis Wu 03:59:16 UTC)

Red_Breast found a story at totally360.com (and 3Suns found a similar one at 2old2play) talking about a snippet in an upcoming issue of EGM – apparently, they’re claiming that Microsoft’s gameplan is to alternate Gears of War and Halo releases, to help stomp on Sony and Nintendo’s marketing buzz. The biggest problem with this gameplan…

3Suns pointed out a bunch of new stuff at MLGPro.com – there’s an interview with Carbon, a story about Legit (who recently left Storm Ventures) joining Legendz, filling StrongSide’s slot, and the MLG side of the WSVG/MLG tiff this weekend at the WSVG finals. Good fun.(Louis Wu 03:46:53 UTC)

Nerrolken, of the Edgeworks Entertainment team (the guys who created the Codex Series last year), sent word that they’ve released The Heretic Trailer, the first of two. This is the Drama Trailer – the next will be the Action Trailer. It gives you a taste of the storyline of the upcoming Heretic series. It’s available…

According to IGN, over 140,000 people signed up at Halo3.com for a chance to participate in the North American Halo 3 beta test kicking off next spring. No wonder the page was having trouble at times!(Louis Wu 19:18:11 UTC)

If it’s Tuesday, there must be a TTL update! And lo and behold, there is. XerxdeeJ summarizes the new goodies – a 22 Questions Interview with Fitbabits, of Evil Avatar, a fun bit of parody artwork, a reader’s poll asking for help updating the 22 Questions, and a profile of the PMS Clan. What are…

Dennis Powers has re-released his movie Static, as a single 320×240 file, 36 minutes long. It’s 121mb, and only available in WMP9 format. (The individual episodes were released in higher-res, 640×480 format in WMP9, QT, and streaming flash; this is really only for the people who want to watch it as a single file, and…

Heh – Tex started a Halo snowflake craze. (Well, it’s not a craze YET – that’s sort of up to you.)(Louis Wu 15:54:34 UTC)