Category: HBO

Mintz writes to point out that Halo: Portable is back on the update kick – new stuff includes imSuck’s HMV Hell, the (late) fourth podcast, xbryboyremix’s “Corrupt” vid, and Walshy’s Montage. What are you waiting for? Go fill your iPod/PSP/whatever.(Louis Wu 12:05:41 UTC)

A long time ago, Mike Miller released a movie showing a shot-free clearing of the top of the gravity lift in Truth & Reconciliation, on Legendary. I was suitably impressed… but remember, it’s just one room. Took him 4 minutes. Self Induced has now completed a no-shot run… on the entire level of Halo. No…

Over at Bungie.net, there’s a new article discussing breaking into the industry at large, and Bungie Studios in specific. (‘Breaking in’ as in ‘getting a job’, not as in ‘stealing all their cool HD monitors’.) There was a lot of stuff about education and experience and such, but what I got out of this was…

GAH! I HATE it when I forget to post the day’s One One Se7en. No, it has nothing to do with wanting to bury these puns… really. No, really.(Louis Wu 00:58:44 UTC)

Looks like Joe Staten will be participating as a panelist at the Austin Film Festival in mid-October – if you’re in the area, and have a few hundred bucks ($200 for students, $400 for a regular conference badge, $600 for producers), sign up now! Thanks, Finn.(Louis Wu 23:06:54 UTC)

Laird, of Sponsors vs Freeloaders, has spent a significant amount of time recently putting together Halo Unyielding, Part 1 – it does what very little other Halo machinima has done to date; it focuses on a space battle. Using HaloCE, and some great external effects, this one is full of exploding ships and starfield-filled carnage.…

Jordan117 discovered that the loudspeaker announcements on the multiplayer map Terminal range from the mundane, to the Easter-eggish. I think anyone who’s played the map knows that there are a variety of announcements… but nobody (that I know of) has gone to the trouble of transcribing them before. He didn’t have any way to record…

Over at MLGPro.com, there’s an interview with Final Boss. They took a solid look at their loss to Carbon at MLG Orlando – I found the tone of their analysis to be an interesting counterpoint to the attitude Carbon took when they looked at the situation. It’s pretty clear why these guys have dominated so…

Eastbeast314 noticed that Dave Weller, a Game Developer Community Manager, was providing media from a whole lot of talks at last month’s Gamefest 2006 – one of those talks was part of the Graphics Track, and was called ‘HDR The Bungie Way’. It was given by Chris Tchou, who works for Bungie doing graphics for…

Over on Bungie.net, there’s a new Community Spotlight – KP sat down with Recon #54, known to most Bungie.net forumgoers (because he’s a moderator there) and to some HBO forumgoers (because he delurks here sometimes). Go read the story of someone who’s been part of the Bungie community since there’s BEEN a Bungie community (and…

Crossfade, from QsKGlobal.Com, put together ‘Colors’, a vid that tells the story of a lone soldier who must leave his family and friends to go to war. The MPRRS liked the cinematic effects, and the editing in general. Check it out! 32 mb for the WMP9 version, 31.3 mb for the QuickTime version.(Louis Wu 19:29:11…

xbryboyremix submitted ‘Showdown’ to the MPRRS – it’s a samurai movie. A lone samurai that confronts the enemy in a showdown for honor. Nice atmosphere, great camera angles, short, stays on point. Fun film! Grab it in WMP9 format (15.2 mb) or QuickTime format (15.4 mb).(Louis Wu 15:53:14 UTC)

Foo Mo Jive points out that Podtacular Episode 80 is out (yeah, we were late on 79, but hey, it’s nice to catch up) – it’s a tip show, focusing on Lockout, and there’s an interview with the creators of the Codex machinima series. A bit over an hour, 57 mb. Get to downloading!(Louis Wu…

A fan calling himself Gravemind has written a massive (45,000 words) look at Halo and Halo 2, with an eye towards making Halo 3 a better game. Anyone interested in looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the first two Halo games, and how they might be optimized going into the third, could probably find…

A couple of days ago, we mentioned a performance piece that had been YouTubed – a bunch of folks in high school, playing self-arranged Halo music to their peers. It was a pretty impressive piece; even Marty O’Donnell weighed in with praise. Well, over the next day or so, a bunch of the people involved…

imSuck submitted another vid to the MPRRS – this one is set to Matchbook Romance’s ‘Monsters’. It does a pretty good job at getting into the idea of subjective evil – good and bad being more an issue of the side you’re on than absolute positions – and it has some great battle scenes. As…

Podtacular Episode 79 was released a week ago – we apologize for the delay in reporting this. Thanks to Laird for letting us know (and we’re sure it’s not JUST because he was the guest-host!). Go listen.(Louis Wu 22:03:33 UTC)

Several months ago, a movie was submitted to the MPRRS – but the submitters stated in the description of their movie that they had a higher-resolution version they wanted to use if the movie passed. It DID pass, and we sent them a note, asking for that higher-res version. After a few days went by,…

If you swing over by LatinoReview.com, you’ll find a review of a spec script for a project called ‘Kashmir’. You might wonder why this is showing up on a Halo website – Kashmir is a drama about some soldiers who go hunting a terrorist. Well… the answer is pretty simple; Kashmir is a project written…

DropShock Episode 23 has been posted – 75 minutes, 35 mb. Discussion of the book cover, and the new armor, discussion of future Bungie stuff, and plenty of the standard features. Check it out.(Louis Wu 19:04:36 UTC)