Category: HBO

Bungie has put 5 of the new screenshots (floating around the net at this point, victims of a misunderstood embargo date) on Bungie.net, in hi-res splendor. 2 are at standard 720p size (1280×720), but three of them are huge – 3840×2160 – and give you a wonderful chance to zoom in on details. (There are…

Several days ago, jester_343 pointed out a video at Google; someone had gone to great lengths to reproduce the original Halo 2 announce trailer (the one released back in August 2002) using Lego bricks. It’s an amazing piece – but I was unhappy with the quality, so I contacted the creator – Marshall Brekka of…

Interesting… Thunder visited the Halo Wars forums to announce that he’s the Community Manager at Ensemble Studios, and will be the liason between the developers and the fans – and that there will be a new update coming in December. Noticed by RedNovember… keep your eyes open!(Louis Wu 01:19:46 UTC)

NeuroKoNeza stopped by our forum to announce that Immure 2, a sequel to a map created back in September 2005 by himself and Mothergoat, will be released this coming Friday, November 24. He’s removed the Wasp, the flying single-person fighter, that unbalanced gameplay in the first version, and replaced it with another new vehicle -…

PEZ wrote to point out a neat feature at halowiki.net – any user can create their own variant of the main page. He wanted to highlight a new alternative built by LegendaryMark – he liked it so much, he actually MADE it the front page!(Louis Wu 22:55:03 UTC)

1Up’s 3 Weeks of Halo coverage continues today, with Luke Smith’s blow-by-blow recounting of the tiny clip of campaign action the EGM boys saw while they were at Bungie’s offices last month. He does a great job of making you wish you worked for a gaming magazine… thanks to Saint for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 21:32:45…

Today’s Penny Arcade looks at what happens when you switch games, but don’t switch tactics. Thanks to Stuntmutt for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 20:14:55 UTC)

Today’s Halo Heads looks at the lengths Nintendo Wii fans will go to express their love for their system. I’m hoping Paul Maestri made this one up from whole cloth… because the alternative scares me.(Louis Wu 20:01:57 UTC)

Last week, SketchFactor gave the Halo community a new name. Today, Stuntmutt lets Bungie know what he thinks of this idea, in the current One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 16:56:12 UTC)

MereCatfish wrote to point out LifePod, a new podcast by FireDragon04, Nic, and Mere with a focus on Halo CE. They have an open-forum style chat section with a panel of community members, and this first episode includes an interview with Masters of the Custom Map Team. Episode 1 is 50 minutes, 42 mb. (Louis…

Jonathan Rivsa wrote last night with word of a bunch of new content at the Bungie Store; you can buy the Carnage Street Sign (replace your street’s stop sign and watch the hilarity ensue!*), the Halo Hockey Jersey, Limited Edition (which you can’t seem to actually order; it has special sizing, but the chart’s not…

Congratulations to Carbon, who won the top spot at this weekend’s MLG Nationals in Las Vegas – they have beaten Final Boss in 3 consecutive tournaments, and are now officially on top of the Halo Pro scene. A summary, including game-by-game scores and a prize breakout, can be found at MLGPro.com. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 15:38:55…

Apathy in the UK takes a look at the relative staminas of Gears of War and Halo 2. (Well, sort of.) Thanks, Dervish.(Louis Wu 23:26:00 UTC)

Sigafoos writes to point out The Riot #25 – they’re no longer WikiRiot, but it’s the same team. A brief explanation of the move, plus community news, the Halo 3 stuff from last week, and ‘a call for any community/group/etc that wants to be covered to let us know.’ (The podcast explains more about that.)…

A few days ago, Arbiter_347 pointed out a Flash movie with a Halo cameo in it; the movie was HILARIOUS, but the Halo content was so minor that I passed on a news post about it. (It’s a really, really, REALLY well-done movie, though.) However, since then, the vid has been mentioned by others (Grande…

DanteThePoet wrote a paper for his Strategies in Game Design class – the question was ‘How does gender rhetoric apply to a specific game?’ He picked Halo 2 (you could probably have guessed that by the fact that you’re reading this newspost on HBO), and last night posted the essay itself, in Microsoft Word format.…

3Suns has been keeping track of all the tournament goodness coming out of the MLGPro.com website – you can find a series of posts on our forum, with links and descriptions.(Louis Wu 15:26:49 UTC)

SEspider took his own crack at modeling one of the critical characters in Ghosts of Onyx (we already mentioned the work Omega did) – it’s modeled in Blender. Once again, if you haven’t read the book, hold off… but otherwise, check this out!(Louis Wu 15:25:07 UTC)

We got word from Haloplayer that Lost: Halostyle Episode 10, “The Ultimatum”, was available at the Injured Knee website. Teh funni continues in this episode, and they’re not 100% certain their bandwidth will hold out, so we’re making local versions available – WMP9 format (52.8 mb) or QuickTime format (49.2 mb). I really like this…

IceWeasel put together another stop-motion vid, ODST vs Heretic Elite… different story, better effects. Pretty funny!(Louis Wu 20:00:29 UTC)