Category: HBO

Haloplayer submitted ‘Lost: Halostyle Episode 9 – Protect This’ to the MPRRS a couple of days ago; it passed with flying colors. Great quality, great filming, great audio, and it’s funny to boot. Go grab a copy – it’s available in WMP9 format (47.1 mb) and QuickTime format (48.6 mb). This is definitely one of…

wheeler found a pixelart community that’s populating the moon with familiar characters. If you scroll over to the black 2001 Obelisk, at the top of the image, and then scroll down from there a ways, you’ll run into a familiar character. (Look at the whole pic, there’s some amazing stuff in there.)(Louis Wu 14:10:05 UTC)

DPAD has an interesting writeup of the Upper Bracket Finals in New York last weekend (the first matchup between Final Boss and Carbon) – it’s written from the perspective of someone who’s not a huge part of the console gaming community, so you might get a better understanding of what’s going on if you don’t…

More goodness from Mothergoat – he released ‘Last Dance (of the Demon)’, a new piece he composed for a Halo CE map called Akathisia. He’s not sure when the map’s coming out, though, so he’s releasing the song now. Almost 6 minutes long, 10.6 mb in MP3 format… great piece. Go listen! (We’ll mirror it…

Spartan Jag noticed that Finn’s been stealthily updating the Halo Story page over the past couple of weeks – you even gotta go back into September to see all the stuff we didn’t comment on. Go read!(Louis Wu 13:44:55 UTC)

Looks like it’s the day for Halo references in cartoons. demus found an entry in a contest that depicts what most of us have wanted to do, from time to time, on XBL… and BitMaP shared a comic he’d drawn that looks at some potential work opportunities for Jeff Steitzer (the ‘Voice of God’, who…

This is being added a bit late – but in all honesty, I ALREADY ADDED it once. I have no idea what happened to the news post – I blame the ferrets. Anyway, as I said earlier, Stuntmutt toyed with a new bling scheme in today’s One One Se7en. In retrospect, EternalSlayer’s forum post makes…

Gah. A video submitted by Kusho to the MPRRS, entitled ‘Trailer Trash’, passed last night – it tells the story of 4 contestants, each with a movie trailer they’re proud of, in a game show in which the winner takes all… and the losers die. Almost 12 minutes long, available in both WMP9 format (112…

Cybiotik wrote to point out that the fan-run video contest on Bungie.net we mentioned back in August has had its winners announced – congrats to the winners!(Louis Wu 13:19:21 UTC)

ICDedPpl found a fun article in a Papua New Guinea newspaper – ‘Halo, one of the best video games created’. Amazing what passes for news these days…(Louis Wu 13:04:00 UTC)

We haven’t heard from mrsmiley in a while – but he sent a note this morning, pointing us to a thread on the Halo Babies forum that contains a picture created entirely in MS Paint. (If you’ve ever worked with MS Paint, you know how limited its toolset is.) This picture is astounding, given its…

Lots of articles out there about yesterday’s MLG Playoff results in New York – Amped eSports has a summary of Carbon’s win over Final Boss, and a spotlight on FBI GamerGraffix.com, who earned themselves the single available berth to MLG’s Las Vegas Final next month – and MLG themselves have a summary of the 4v4…

Congrats to Carbon, who came back from being beaten in the Winners Bracket Finals in New York to play Final Boss again, in the overall finals… and win! I wish I had VoD…(Louis Wu 22:30:04 UTC)

Sigafoos points out that Wikiriot 20 is now online – 33 minutes, 13.3 mb. Full of… you know, stuff. Go listen.(Louis Wu 22:26:57 UTC)

Keyboard Killer, of Pothole Studios, submitted another Totally Random Short Video to the MPRRS; they liked this one, too. It’s called ‘Shoplifters will be Prosecuted’, and it’s short and sweet. Great filming, great use of mods. You can grab it in its original DivX format (17.4 mb), or in WMP9 (16.4 mb) or QuickTime (18.2…

No, not like that. Zukan found a 2D arcade game called ‘Super Mini Halo’, created by Jpdeathblade at DcEmu. The forum thread contains a shot showing off the sprite art, and a short video showing the first level’s gameplay. 1.3 mb download, available for 1.5 and 2.71. I can’t tell you what it really plays…

The Tied the Leader Gunslingers celebrated their 1-year anniversary yesterday – thanks to both Quikthnkr, who invited people to say hi in their forums, and XerxdeeJ, who challenges the world to a duel in a blog post – beat the Gunslingers, win a buck. (Read for details.) Congrats, guys – you’ve had a great first…

Playoffs in New York are underway – the 1v1 Championship concluded yesterday, with Karma coming out on top (and winning the $5000 first-prize purse). Thanks to 3Suns, who pointed out the MLG article. There’s also a writeup on GotFrag, for people looking for every perspective. The 4v4 competitions take place today.(Louis Wu 13:38:01 UTC)

Will “Dracc” Curry pointed us to his blog, ‘ModIt’, which discusses (surprise, surprise) modding. Not just Xbox/Halo modding – but it certainly touches on that. In fact, his latest entry tries to draw a distinction between modders and cheaters on XBL, with respect to Halo. If you’re interested in the idea of modifying your hardware…

Amped eSports has interviews with a couple of MGL Pro gamers you don’t hear from very often – elamitewarrior, and MimiC. Check ’em out as the league gears up for the New York playoffs!(Louis Wu 12:54:09 UTC)