Category: HBO

A REAL Halo Humpday Challenge happened this week after all – offspring of Bungie employees came in and gave Bungie employees a whuppin’. That is – until KP showed up. The first game was a rout – the kids ruled. Games 2 and 3 were a bit different… and the difference wears a red cape,…

Great video interview with Marty O’Donnell over at IGN – Marty talks about sound design, and emotion tweaking. Good stuff! Thanks, darthbob.(Louis Wu 22:55:32 UTC)

Pinkuh calls them doodles (here and here, on the forum, or here, and here, in her gallery). I say pshaw.(Louis Wu 22:45:38 UTC)

The roundtable discussion about storytelling in games this morning at X06 between Peter Jackson, Greg Zeschuk (Bioware) and Peter Molyneux (Lionhead) – moderated by Frankie – has been put online, in its entirety, by TeamXbox, in WMP9 format (almost 200mb). I haven’t had time to watch more than a couple of minutes – but grab…

Hmm… this is pretty bizarre… Team Xbox has Halo Wars on the list of games arriving in time for the holidays this year; I have a little trouble believing that, since that means they pretty much need to have sent it to the duplicators by now… but hey, stranger things have happened. I say, until…

I’m not sure how good an idea this is, but… BARBARIC RAGE stumbled across the portfolio of the Treanor Brothers, a 3D Animation and Cinematics company – apparently, they created a a 10 second web trailer for the launch of the Halo 2 website back in 2004. As far as I know, it was never…

Paul Maestri writes to say that Halo Heads 13, with a visit from One One Se7en, is now posted; this makes much more sense (and is actually quite funny) if you listened to Podtacular 82.(Louis Wu 20:13:35 UTC)

Gah. I grabbed this this morning, but forgot to post it. Microsoft has made the streaming feed from yesterday’s press conference available again, for those that missed it live – but the video is so small, and (in the case of the discussion with Peter Jackson) so irrelevant, I simply cut out the audio portion…

Heh – rapture is amused by how quickly Wikipedia info is compiled – check it out, there’s already a pretty comprehensive page on Halo Wars. (rapture also wanted to point out that the new H2 for Windows screens are browsable at halo2pc.org – though if you happen to be browsing in Safari, the page is…

Haloplayer, of Injured Knee Productions, sent the MPRRS ‘The Life Obstacles of Special Ted, Episode 4’, a video depicting the troubles Ted has in the fast food and automotive sales industries. Poor Ted. Funny stuff – grab a copy in WMP9 format (34.4 mb) or QuickTime format (34.2 mb).(Louis Wu 14:16:59 UTC)

Sneaking in under the radar, SketchFactor posted a Humpday Challenge writeup yesterday, missed (by our readers, anyway) until this morning, when hnc wondered about it. It’s not Halo, this time around – they played Shadowrun and Gears of War – but the end result (Bungie gets battered) was pretty much the same. Well, that’s not…

Foo Mo Jive points out new content at Podtacular.com. Episode 82 has been posted, with guest host Stuntmutt, who is so self-effacing that the Podtacular boys have started a ‘save Stuntmutt’ fund. (It also covers stuff like the Bungie Podcast, Halo news, a glitch roundup, and more. This was all recorded on Sunday, which means…

One of the biggest discussion topics flooding our forum at the moment (and flooding is the right word; we’ve jumped from an average of about 200 posts/day to about 800 in the last 24 hours) is the idea that Halo content is now being created outside of Bungie’s direct control. This may or may not…

TheMaker420 put together a tribute film entitled ‘Machinima: Over The Years’, looking at some of the better vids out there. The MPRRS reviewers liked it, for the most part… so we’re hosting it. It’s 50 mb, and comes in WMP9 or QuickTime formats. Grab one!(Louis Wu 01:52:52 UTC)

Paul Maestri, having no idea that the Halo news scene would get flooded by goodies coming out of Barcelona, sent us a link yesterday for Halo Heads 11, which continued the running gerbil gag. (Made me laugh out loud.) As soon as he saw the treasure from Spain, however, he whipped up a topical strip,…

Just a reminder – if you’ve been away from the Halo scene for a day or two, you REALLY want to check Wednesday’s news; there were quite a lot of tidbits worth reading.(Louis Wu 01:13:42 UTC)

Thanks to Oliver “HO Legend” Stopienski, who pointed out an interview with Dispraiser, of the Halogen team, at his website, HaloOrbit. An interesting read, and an interesting choice of release times… (Louis Wu 01:10:22 UTC)

There have been a number of requests for a QuickTime version of the Halo Wars trailer; I doubt there’ll be one coming from Ensemble, so I whipped one up myself. It’s not the full 720p version – but it’s still bigger than the low-res 360p they’ve made available – it’s 480p (852×480), and it weighs…

In all the rush to cover Halo Wars and the Wingnuts stuff, we totally forgot that Bungie was going to be talking about Halo 2 for Vista in Barcelona today; if you swing by the Xbox Press section, you can grab a 50 mb zipfile containing a fact sheet, some logos, and 12 hi-res BMP…

Dolbex, in true Dolbex fashion, has put his own spin on the X06 news; things that make him happy, things that make him worried. My favorite kind of Halo/Bungie fan is one that loves Halo (and/or Bungie) without being blind to potential problems; Dolbex shows he fits this nicely. Go read!(Louis Wu 21:11:56 UTC)