Category: HBO

EternalScrappy put together ‘Outside’, a video about the Arbiter set to the eponymous song by Staind. All of his footage came from cutscenes – but he did a fantastic job matching the action to the lyrics. Cinematics, of course, are great – Bungie did ’em. A couple of MPRRS reviewers weren’t happy to see purely…

Paul Maestri points out that Halo Heads 25 is available – it made me laugh. Go read.(Louis Wu 21:49:36 UTC)

Dennis Powers writes to point out that Static, Episode 2: Last Will and Testament, is now available for download. (Static is the latest story in the Halo CE Chronicles universe.) Petty Officer Alex Hicks thinks he might be stranded alone, forever… but he discovers he’s not alone. Grab this version in WMP9, QuickTime, or streaming…

We got a note from William Sullivan-Angulo, the leader of the Freelancer: Combat Evolved team, that Alpha version 116.24 of their Halo Total Conversion Mod for the MS PC game Freelancer has now been released. It’s a community-based online multiplayer role-playing game – if you’re interested in participating, you must be a member of their…

Hmm… bob1 points out a store on eBay where someone will make you custom Halo lego bits. That’s probably useful to someone…(Louis Wu 20:01:30 UTC)

Man, I HATE when I put stuff aside to post later and then forget. demus let us know last night that there was a story on digg.com about a costume contest in which the winner was a home-made Spartan. (Nice job, too!) $1000 for the win… not bad!(Louis Wu 19:16:52 UTC)

Rookie Rabbit Productions are back with Episode 3 of their Spartan Effect series; it passed the MPRRS with flying colors. There’s not a lot of action in this episode, but it pushes the plot forward, and it’s funny. Very well-filmed (great camera angles), and nice voice acting. Lots of goodies if you keep your eyes…

Thanks to simen, who found a video interview with Eric Nylund, focusing on the Ghosts of Onyx. No spoilers, and not a LOT of new info – but it’s always nice to put a face (and a voice) to someone you know a little bit about. This was done by a group called Expanded Books,…

PEZ writes to say that halowiki.net is back up and running, and wanted to point out a summary page containing the information available in the LEVEL article released last week. No scans, no wholesale transcription – just a nice overview of the new info. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:27:58 UTC)

Over at Bungie.net, there’s a new Developer’s Diary, this time written by Shogo Ishii of Hired Gun, detailing the current status of Halo 2 Vista. Give it a read – she’ll be here soon!(Louis Wu 01:05:31 UTC)

This has come up a few times in the forum – now it’s appearing in my mailbox, so it’s probably time to deal with it publicly. We have a spoiler system in place for Halo and Halo 2 information. This is ENTIRELY story-based; the spoilers we’re talking about have to do with Halo’s story; plot,…

BlueStrike2 sends word that Mute Radio Episode 5 is now available for download. 12.5 minutes, 12 mb – MLG NY, MLG on TV, MLG Las Vegas, and life in general… go listen!(Louis Wu 20:07:03 UTC)

Eep, forgot the update. The 2006 Guilt O’ Lantern contest closed for entries last night – things are sort of busy right now, but in the next few days, the entries will go up for public voting. Thanks to all who entered!(Louis Wu 19:56:42 UTC)

Over at 1Up.com, Luke Smith has written up a clarifying article; the scans floating around from Sweden’s LEVEL magazine, and more recently from FAMITSU magazine, generated a lot of speculation around the net. This article clears up the worst of the misunderstandings, and makes some cool things clearer. (For folks confused about the ‘Frostbite’ level…

One of the new tweaks that Halo 3 will sport, according to the magazine info floating around the net, is that your secondary weapon will be carried on your back, making it possible for other players to know what that weapon is. Most people have been pretty positive in their response to this feature -…

Luke McKay created a fun Haloween-related doodle yesterday – we’ve added it to his Gallery here. Me, I’d take the trade.(Louis Wu 15:55:52 UTC)

Last week, we mentioned that Bungie.net was going to start highlighting community artwork. Last night, the first batch was posted – and I must say, there’s some killer stuff in there! Here’s hoping some of those people choose to submit their work to our Art sections, as well! Lots of folks noticed this – Sep7imus…

Heh – A tech writer at Microsoft took some photos in her building’s lobby yesterday. Poor Chief! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 15:13:10 UTC)

MLGPro has an interview with Carbon posted – they go over the games in the NY finals, and the upcoming Las Vegas matchups, in a lot of detail. Unless you keep up on pro doings, the language might be hard to follow. It was really nice to see thoughtful analyses of performance, without a lot…