Category: HBO

PEZ writes to say that halowiki.net has been experiencing server-related problems, and is switching hosts; accessibility for the next few days will be spotty. Please be patient! (They’ll be keeping people up to date with developments on the WikiRiot website.)(Louis Wu 14:36:39 UTC)

Tex points out a song that seems to clearly reference Halo – it’s called The Guillotine, by Escape the Fate. Never heard it… but now you know!(Louis Wu 14:34:24 UTC)

Quite a number of people let us know that Gamestop and EB Games are taking pre-orders for Halo 3 (all three versions of it) starting today. The earliest mention came in this forum thread, started by Max Power – there are details, as well as an audio recording of the message Gamestop has been leaving…

Over at MLGPro.com, MLG Vidcast Episode 4 has been posted; a talk with FBI GamerGraffix, highlights from the championship series. Go watch! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 21:35:47 UTC)

Over at Subnova, Funkmon wrote up a review of Ghosts of Onyx – he wasn’t horribly impressed. Do NOT read this review if you haven’t finished the book yet – it’s chock-full of story spoilers. Personally, I disagree with a lot of what he says – but he backs up his arguments with examples, for…

Paul Maestri points out that Halo Heads 24 is up. He gently shows us that some games don’t translate from one medium to another…(Louis Wu 17:52:51 UTC)

You know… I’ve actually been waiting for the pun used in today’s Holiday One One Se7en for several years… I’m glad it was finally garlic-pressed into service.(Louis Wu 17:02:00 UTC)

Captain Spark released another couple of dozen snippets today – some were upgrades on existing clips, but the new ones are all now browsable in our Dialogue Databank. (You can, of course, grab them from his website, as well.)(Louis Wu 16:57:12 UTC)

Heh – there’s an editorial at Cinema Blend today about how Halo (the movie) could make a billion dollars. Okay, that’s probably a stretch. The gist, however, is solid – there are a LOT of gamers, they WANT to see a good movie, whoever nails it first is gonna make a mint. And Halo has…

Wow. Looks like the Halo movie is on hold at this point. A press release (quoted by both Ain’t It Cool News and the Halo The Movie blog, though not, apparently, available on the web anywhere) from Peter Jackson and Wingnut Interactive states that they’ve agreed to “postpone making a feature film based on the…

Over on Bungie.net, there’s a fun little story packed with statistics – as of today, just shy of 2 years since launch, Xbox Live passed the four billion games played mark. Wowwowwow! More numbers for your digestion in the article.(Louis Wu 02:04:32 UTC)

Demag0gue stopped by to say he’s started a new Halo movie review blog, entitled Penitent Tangential. Very cool idea – check it out!(Louis Wu 22:52:01 UTC)

Some of us have a harder time resisting temptation than others. Stuntmutt feels your pain – check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:26:21 UTC)

Dry Ice found an interesting building in Dubai. See what you think!(Louis Wu 17:19:33 UTC)

Double News Postage – RVideo also submitted a new piece of work to the MPRRS recently. The first time through, it seems that most of the reviewers didn’t get what he was doing. He overhauled the entire piece, incorporating some of the advice they’d given – and though some STILL didn’t get it the second…

QsK King submitted his clanmate’s montage to the MPRRS – they liked it. It seems to end rather abruptly… but other than that, it’s a pretty nice piece of work. Almost 6 minutes long, available in WMP9 format (74.1 mb) or QuickTime format (73.1 mb).(Louis Wu 15:08:30 UTC)

Dolbex pointed out a post on Major Nelson’s blog announcing a new Halo Trilogy theme for the Xbox360 – “Each blade presents a re-imagined view from the Halo universe, including all three iterations of the Master Chief’s iconic Spartan armor, from past, present and future.” 150 points, or free with the purchase of a Halo…

Thanks to Saint, who noticed (heh) that the UNSCDF Fan Fiction Contest winners have been posted; congrats to the 5 winners (including Saint), each of whom will receive a signed copy of Ghosts of Onyx.(Louis Wu 14:17:16 UTC)

A couple of months ago, RVideo reversed some Jackal dialogue snippets, and did a nice job of remodulating them to be audible. We said, at the time, that we would add them to the Dialogue Databank at some point. Things, as usual, got in the way, and it never happened. Today, he stopped by with…

Queef58 submitted ‘Angels and Airwaves – The Adventure Music Video’ to the MPRRS – the song, set to Halo. Heavy compression makes for small download sizes! Grab it in WMP9 format (24.3 mb) or QuickTime format (28 mb).(Louis Wu 23:08:31 UTC)