Category: HBO

I wasn’t going to post this, because the language isn’t really safe for work… but it WAS funny, and I DID get chewed out for ignoring it, so… here’s a funny mix of the commercial and some music from Team America. It actually fits really well, but make sure your boss isn’t walking by as…

There’s a new 360 Theme available on XBL Marketplace, based on images from the commercial – it’s 150 points, and LordGideon kindly provided screenshots of all four blades. They’re all 1280×1024, and weigh in at around 200kb each.Blade 1 | Blade 2 | Blade 3 | Blade 4(Louis Wu 16:57:36 UTC)

In case you’re not TOTALLY overloaded with Halo stuff today, Jillybean has submitted a massive update to the Halo Story Page – lots of goodies in there. She’s doing her best to flood your senses… (heh? get it? Flo- oh, never mind.)(Louis Wu 16:20:22 UTC)

Lots of people have been working on content from the Commercial – the news today contains edited video, icons, there are lots of Wallpapers posted in our forum (and sent in via email)… but one piece of Fanart that blew me away was a speed painting done by Rahll, over at DeviantART (it’ll be in…

Curtis, over at YouNEWB.com, has put up 39 stills from the trailer; no watermarks. Nice shots!(Louis Wu 15:54:34 UTC)

A lot of little things from the commercial have been discussed more than once. I’ve tried to summarize these in this forum post; please read it before jumping in and starting your own thread. Thanks!(Louis Wu 15:43:40 UTC)

Tied the Leader gets into the commercial-analysis game… though with a slightly different tack; they look at the marketing side of it. Interesting article. (While you’re there, there’s other new stuff; 22 Questions with Midnight, of Cooked Gamers, a clan profile of Legion of the Apocalypse, and a recap of the past 10 clan profiles.)…

JPOGDNA created a new batch of Halo 3 Icons (for AIM, MSN, etc), based on last night’s commercial – you can find them at GetXbox.net.(Louis Wu 14:55:38 UTC)

Stuntmutt tossed in a followup to yesterday’s One One Se7en strip – if it makes no sense to you, check the ad in this post.(Louis Wu 14:54:12 UTC)

Narcogen wrote up a transcript of the commercial – it’s not very different in actual dialogue from a half-dozen others on our forum, but he does a nice job of summarizing the action, as well – and he added some preliminary commentary about it, as well (worth reading, if you’re planning on joining the discussion).…

Okay, now that I’ve gone through all 800+ new posts from the past 12 hours, I can start pulling out the new stuff. The majority of what’s there is speculation about the trailer; I’ll probably put up a summary of noticed things soon, just to keep people from repeating the same points over and over…

Thanks to broony, who noticed, over at IGN UK, a full list of EU sites offering beta seats – there are 34 on the list, corresponding to 3400 beta testers in the UK – a far more reasonable number than the paltry 15 for NZ/AU mentioned yesterday. (I’m SURE there’ll be more listed for those…

Simply because it’s not out there, I whipped up a 720p QuickTime version of the commercial, one that doesn’t require a machine that can process the H.264 codec. It weighs in at 35 mb (I probably could have shaved a few megs without any loss, but that’s not huge anyway), and it started life as…

Ross Mills pointed out 6 separate places in the UK where folks on that side of the pond can try for a beta slot – each site has 100 seats to give away. Go get ’em! (I like BritXbox’s contest. 🙂 )(Louis Wu 12:21:40 UTC)

Okay, so I knew that if I stuck around last night, and tried to keep up with the news about the Halo 3 commercial that aired on Monday Night Football, I’d NEVER get to bed… so I skipped it all. This means two things: it means HBO’s currently about 8 hours behind the curve, news-wise……

There’s a short note up at Bungie.net about the beta signups; it says that from here on in, you should use ONLY the halo3.com URL to register. Don’t fret if you used a direct link earlier today; those should be fine. However, now that the front page is working for everyone (except, apparently, Safari users…

If you missed episode 4 of the MLG Pro Circuit last Saturday at 10 am, you can watch it in its entirety over at MLGPro.com right now. Week 4 covers the Chicago tourney. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 22:31:31 UTC)

Usul found an interesting New York Times article about an upcoming network TV show covering video games; we already have USA Networks’ MLG Pro Circuit, but this is on CBS Sports Spectacular on December 30 – that’s a pretty big audience! If you have trouble getting in to read it, bugmenot.com can help.(Louis Wu 22:01:56…

Bah – this was posted yesterday, and I forgot to front-page it. S043 noticed that at ESPN.com, they were running a banner ad for the upcoming commercial this evening; it was in heavy rotation yesterday, but doesn’t seem to be quite as prevalent today. In any case, there’s a local version in his forum post,…

From the wording of some of the posts on our forum, I’m getting the impression that people think that filling out the registration at halo3.com gives them a spot in the beta test. Filling out the registration at Halo3.com puts you into the pool of participants from which Microsoft will choose beta testers. You are…