Category: HBO

Jillybean took some time out from her busy videogame-playing schedule (mostly because she can’t play the games she likes with the video card she has) to process some of the recent story-related content floating around out there (including a pretty intriguing observation from Wado just last night). Check out the Halo Story Page for all…

Major Silva, of UNSCDF, snagged me for a few questions recently. I hate pointing out interviews of myself – makes me look like I’m tooting my own horn. So don’t read it! Yeah, that’s the ticket! Don’t follow the link, skip it. Don’t go there.(Louis Wu 12:56:49 UTC)

Tempus Fugit noticed an entry for an audio version of Ghosts of Onyx… real, or Amazon’s mistake? (And if it’s real, who’s reading it?) Nice.(Louis Wu 21:34:34 UTC)

Wonga. Someone synched the song ‘Circle of Life’, from the Lion King, to the video from the Halo 3 trailer. The amazing part… it works! Go watch at YouTube. Thanks, Retsof-Noraa, for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 21:33:04 UTC)

Sigafoos writes to let us know that WikiRiot 17 is now online. 44 minutes, 17.5 mb, covering wiki updates, Bungie’s first official full-length podcast, and ‘The Game’, which you have to listen to to figure out. Go listen.(Louis Wu 18:46:31 UTC)

BOLL found a series of vids called ‘Console Wars’ – they’re remakes (hehe, sort of) of Star Wars films, with video game characters sort of grafted on. The Master Chief has a pretty big part. They’re pretty funny.(Louis Wu 13:10:42 UTC)

Rockslider describes playing ‘Shark’ in Assault on the Control Room – sounds like a fun game variant!(Louis Wu 13:06:26 UTC)

Brannon Boren’s blog entry about ‘Creating A.I. for Halo’ is now live; it’s an interesting look at how backstory was developed to explain specific, visible parts of the early game. (This backstory was then used, and further developed, in books, leading to a pretty rich history.) (Louis Wu 13:05:16 UTC)

In the nick of time; one more huge batch of Miscellaneous Art has been added to the collection. There’s stuff in here that had gotten lost in the depths of our queue for months; apologies to the artists involved! We should be ALMOST caught up (there are still a bunch of recent pics in the…

Wow, cool. BOLL found a site called ‘TheDailyDrawing.com’ that has videos showing someone (‘J.W.’?) drawing stuff – and today’s artwork is the Master Chief. The video is 4:21 long, and was filmed at 2.5x speed, so this pic took about 11 minutes to complete. Pretty fun to watch! (If you’re reading this news post at…

Break Point Halo has interviewed Dan Preuss, the co-creator of Treeskunk Productions (a machinima group that created Outpost: Coagulation’ and ‘Outpost: Backwash’, among other projects. Nice to hear they’re gearing up again! Thanks, haphazardly.(Louis Wu 18:45:00 UTC)

Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen noticed a tasty tidbit in the weblog of Brannon Boren, who was once heavily involved in the maintenance of the Halo Bible – he’s going to be discussing some of his professional experience – and he’s starting, tomorrow, with ‘Creating A.I. for Halo’. Sounds great! (Louis Wu 12:51:18 UTC)

j41m3z noticed that fan-filmed videos from the VGL Hollywood Bowl shows are showing up on YouTube… including one of the Halo 3 Premiere played there. Love the guitar licks! Update: just a quick note; Halo fans should be tickled by the fact that the Cortana part was being performed live at the show by Jen…

_Wheels03 pointed out a tattoo he designed for his friend – pretty hardcore!(Louis Wu 10:49:20 UTC)

Bungie’s released a new Wallpaper incorporating their brand-spankin’-new Halo 3 logo (okay, so it’s not EXACTLY new, but the finalized version is) – it’s available in four resolutions, so go and grab the one that fits your monitor best! KP broke the news first (surprise, surprise).(Louis Wu 10:17:34 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update has been posted – it’s a doozy. A full-length podcast is available (50 mb, 55 minutes); amazing music and dialogue (well, the dialogue’s cool, the music is… go listen). On top of that, there’s a bizarre ‘making the logo’ bit (with lots and lots and lots of pictures), and something called…

Occasionally, Stuntmutt writes a One One Se7en a few days before it goes live, and then finds that the ideal setup for his punchline is unwittingly posted by a fan; usually, when this happens, it’s too late to rearrange strips to match. My apologies this time around; there was a 50-50 chance this strip would…

Paul Maestri sends word that Halo Heads 10 is up. I think maybe he better not draw any more rodents…(Louis Wu 18:21:40 UTC)

Eighteen new pieces added to the Fan Fiction section this morning – some doozies. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 13:21:34 UTC)

Not strictly Halo-related – but it affects a lot of Halo fans, so it’s going up. Dolbex posted a note on our forum, pointing back to his blog, which in turn points to an article at IGN; all of this is about a new policy whereby Microsoft will fix any broken Xbox 360 consoles purchased…