Category: HBO

Tol Eressea stopped by to point out that with Blogspot (or other free blogging sites) and Google Video (or, presumably, YouTube), you can set up a place to show off your better games to family and friends – and it doesn’t have to cost you a penny. The first post on Knights Templar (Live) is…

At-GNaT points out that today’s Little Gamers comic is Halo-related. (Louis Wu 16:55:59 UTC)

As is the custom on Tuesdays, XerxdeeJ stopped by our forum to point out new content at Tied the Leader. There’s a 22 Questions interview with Karma, of Team Carbon, the recounting of a debt to be paid, and a Clan Profile of the TTL MLG clan. (There’s also a paean to the goodness that…

Rampancy.net noticed a quote in an Xbox.com article about Gilbert Arenas, of the Washington Wizards, in which he stated that he wanted to start modding his Xbox, to get revenge on the modders that are ruining his Halo 2 rankings. Hookay…(Louis Wu 15:54:35 UTC)

The MLGPro.com website has a preview of Storm Ventures posted – get to know more about these guys before the Nationals this weekend! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 15:49:44 UTC)

We got a note from Sigafoos – apparently, WikiRiot has been cancelled, and the site has been pulled down. There’s no explanation for what happened on the halowiki.net website, but it sounds like it wasn’t pretty. Sigafoos wanted to assure everyone, however, that they would be continuing their podcast in a non-wiki format, beginning this…

The second half of EGM’s Monday content is now up at 1Up.com – Combat Evolving, a discussion of multiplayer aspects as they stand in Halo 2, and ways that Bungie is working to make them better (or more fun) in Halo 3. Great info – lots to look forward to! Go read. Update: Looks like…

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote up an article on women gamers; they focused on Kari ‘The Don Wan’ Toyama, and how gaming pulls her together with friends and supporters. It’s a great read. Look for her online, but don’t get mad if she beats you…(Louis Wu 21:48:53 UTC)

Over at 1Up.com, part of their Monday Halo 3 content – a writeup of the Halo 3 Humpday Challenge between Bungie and the EGM staff – is now online. Written in the style of the Bungie.net humpday writeups, this chronicles the blatant cheating and general poor sportsmanship of the Bungie team… and reissues the ‘X-button’…

Bungie asked recently for community feedback about an idea to add a female spartan death scream to Halo 3 multiplayer. Stuntmutt looks at one of the possibly unforeseen consequences in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:46:55 UTC)

I finally got a chance to go through our uploads directory – and buried amongst all the movies that people keep uploading (even though it says REALLY CLEARLY at the top of the page not to upload movies), I found a song submitted by StitchLips, called Killtacular. It’s pretty hard rock; he says it’s inspired…

Voting ran for a week on the 2006 Guilt O’ Lantern contest – and while a significantly smaller group of people voted this year than last (under 2,000, compared to last year’s nearly 6,000), there still emerged a clear winner – congratulations to Lacie O.! Michael Coffing, who won the last two years, and was…

MereCatfish writes to point out that the Halo CE 2v2 Tournament is now accepting team registrations. As the title might suggest, this will be a league of 2-player teams for Halo: Custom Edition on the PC. This is the successor to the Halo CE League; there are no prizes, this is for fun. If you’ve…

Cody Brigan has created a Halo 3 Countdown Timer – it currently counts down to Christmas 2006, because he doesn’t have a release date for Halo 3, but it’s pretty nonetheless!(Louis Wu 23:35:51 UTC)

3Suns points out a couple of interesting things at MLGPro.com right now – a preview of FBI GamerGraffix, and a newly launched online tournament. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 23:34:29 UTC)

Sigafoos writes to point out WikiRiot 24, which discusses the December issue of EGM, the new MLG TV stuff, the Podtacular league, and lots of clan/wiki stuff. 35 minutes, 14 mb. Go listen!(Louis Wu 20:28:40 UTC)

We’ve got one more from Bryn Casey – it’s a scene from the Ghosts of Onyx, and if you haven’t read the book, this could be classified as ‘spoilers’. Fantastic piece, though – check it out if you can!(Louis Wu 17:41:02 UTC)

If you missed the first episode of the MLG Pro Circuit on the USA Network yesterday, the MLGPro.com website is rebroadcasting it in its entirety. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 17:08:18 UTC)

Chryton noticed an advertisement for the H5K Project, a Halo 2 tournament in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on November 27-29. $35 to register, $5000 first prize. More details on their website.(Louis Wu 17:05:17 UTC)

Germany’s Halo Orbit has renamed itself Halo Base – and they’ve posted 5 new Halo 3 ‘screenshots’. (These are technically scans from the December EGM magazine – but they got them by screen-capturing the images off the recently released 1Up Show vid; as video screen caps, they’re definitely legal for posting on the web.) Thanks,…