Category: HBO

DHalo noticed an Energy Sword available for purchase on eBay – starting bid is $230, and the auction has 5 days to run. This is the same guy who makes needlers with real crystal (we’ve mentioned him before) – he’s also the guy who won a thousand dollars for his Spartan costume last week. Check…

XerxdeeJ stopped by to point out the last week’s content at Tied the Leader – and there’s quite a bit. You’ll find clan profiles of PraetoriaGuard and 2old2play, a 22 Questions interview with Brannon Boren, a rant about Hollywood’s inability to see past the beancounting, an admission of weakness, and a rant about quitters. Man,…

Yesterday, Velez got REALLY lucky and found a copy of the December EGM at a local store (way ahead of when it’s supposed to be sold); he’s being good and not posting scans, but he did a nice job of summarizing some of the new information available. You’re still gonna want to read this on…

kdawg15 wrote to point out an FFA tournament coming up on November 25 on XBox Live, run by XM Rated – you can find more details on their forum. Tell ’em kdawg15 sent you!(Louis Wu 02:58:35 UTC)

Heh – the new EU commercial for the Xbox 360, Cops and Robbers, shows some cars with nicely customized license plates. Gears of War, 1106 (wait, that’s NOW!), and Halo 3, 07 (sounds about right) – fun homage! Nice catch by Wolverine Monkey. (Screengrabs in this post.)(Louis Wu 02:41:50 UTC)

Ever since the term ‘Man Cannon’ was mentioned (as a new feature on the maps played by the journalists who visited Bungie last month), folks have been making snide comments about it. Stuntmutt decided to get ALL of this out of the way by simply hammering the sexual innuendo into the ground. Go read today’s…

Lots of new features will make their first appearance in the Halo series in Halo 3. One of the most anticipated is films – the ability to replay the action from the last game, with camera control. To get a sense for where this particular feature stands, swing by KP’s Red vs Blue Journal -…

The flood of Halo info from EGM has started – you can find blog entries from Dan Hsu, Mark MacDonald, and Luke Smith, chock full of personal observations (and in Dan’s case, pictures), now live on the 1Up website. There’s plenty more coming – we’ll keep you informed! Update: Crispin Boyer’s blog is now updated,…

QsK King submitted a montage compiling the best gameplay from GamingVidz.com to the MPRRS (before the shutdown) – it’s a pretty nice montage! Lots of fun kills, nice coordination with the songs. It’s nearly 8 minutes long, but it covers work from a large number of people. You can grab it in WMP9 format (103…

Interesting – we got mail from Evelynn, at The Cartoon Doll Emporium – they’ve created a dress up doll of Master Chief. Mjolnir armor… and a ballerina tutu? Go see what you can put on this poor guy!(Louis Wu 16:22:38 UTC)

This Spartan Life put together a fun little ‘Halo-Ween’ Travelogue; it’s a celebration of the holiday, more than a serious commentary on things. TSL regular Sgt. Hartsock uploaded a copy of it to YouTube, so you can watch it without using the TSL bandwidth – take a look!(Louis Wu 16:14:34 UTC)

A few days ago, GamingTV.org came online – it’s a new site devoted to hosting machinima, and though it’s not Halo-exclusive, it certainly focuses on Halo. It’s being run by trigger119, who’s been around the Halo machinima community for a few years now – if you haven’t checked it out yet, you should! (Louis Wu…

I didn’t think folks would notice so quickly, but I’m getting mail, so I might as well make this public. Several events this weekend have made it clear to me that the Movie Peer Review Rating System is no longer functional; a significant number of reviewers are members of machinima clans, and (contrary to the…

Took a little longer than I’d hoped – but voting is now open for the 2006 edition of the Guilt O’ Lantern pumpkin-carving contest! Swing by, check out the entries, and pick your favorite 5 – we’ll give the top rankers some cool schwag!(Louis Wu 22:54:19 UTC)

Laird points out that Alone Episode 8, ‘Welcome Back Ben’, is now available for download. Not a lot of Halo content in this episode, but it’s nice to see the series is going to be finished! WMP9 format, 55.4 mb.(Louis Wu 22:51:52 UTC)

Sigafoos writes to let us know that WikiRiot 23 is now online – 40 minutes, 16 mb, and the chatter covers the new Halo 3 pages on the wiki, clan challenges, and the new WikiRiot forums. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:07:11 UTC)

EternalScrappy submitted ‘Pushing Me Away’ to the MPRRS; they liked it. (You might have noticed a large number of EternalScrappy vids coming through recently. We have, too. We’ve also noticed some reviewing… irregularities associated with these films. We’re not going to penalize any films that have already come through the system, but we’re going to…

Interesting article in the Toronto Star; it suggests that the new ad campaign for the Canadian Forces is using ‘a kind of video-game imagery’ to attract new recruits. The idea is that the target audience is males aged 17 to 25… a big video game playing crowd, so if you ‘speak their language’, they’ll respond…

Alex Tice pointed out a video clip from Video Games Live over on AOL; yes, there’ve been others around, but this one is the entire Halo piece, including the intro, and it’s really nicely filmed. Streaming only.(Louis Wu 16:35:11 UTC)

Major.Dump continues his 3D animation experiments – this time, it’s a pair of Seraph fighters, weaving through a small Covenant formation, with a glassed Harvest in the background. Nice work!(Louis Wu 16:22:31 UTC)