Category: HBO

Sigafoos points out that WikiRiot Episode 13 is up – 35 mins, 14 mb. Minimal Halo content, because of technical difficulties… such is life sometimes.(Louis Wu 13:21:51 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update is posted – info about PAX (a cool gaming expo happening right now in Seattle which would have been cooler had I been able to go), info from SketchFactor about Leipzig, and the demo of Halo 2 Vista there, and more teasers about Halo 3 (Frankie is a master at describing…

Last week, Frankie mentioned (in the BWU) that Halo 3 has “lots of feel of the original Halo” – in the sense that you spend a chunk of your time exploring, for the sake of exploration. Many websites jumped on this comment as some sort of evidence that Bungie was admitting that they liked Halo…

Okay, it’s the Marathon symbol… but it’s in Halo too, so it’s relevant. Check out Spartan Jag’s latest creation.(Louis Wu 17:45:39 UTC)

_Wheels03 posted a couple of pics of his new Halo prototype faceplate, courtesy of Bungie – congrats again for winning the faceplate contest! (For what it’s worth, this has got to be one of the fastest prize shipments I’ve ever heard of. Frankie saw the faceplate in the outgoing mail queue last NIGHT – and…

IGN has some more Halo 2 Vista footage from Leipzig – they call it ‘off-screen’, which either means ‘filmed with a video camera pointing at the monitor’, or ‘filmed directly off the screen’. (The audio is clearly live, but the video’s quite good; doesn’t look very ‘shakey’. Audio sync on the Midship clip is AWFUL.)…

Largest Fan Fiction update in a while – 22 pieces. Go read!(Louis Wu 15:03:24 UTC)

New content over at Dead Man’s Hand – highlights include the Playlist Psyche feature on Team Carnage and the 22 Questions on rapture. Thanks, Dweezle!(Louis Wu 14:17:57 UTC)

TheGarbageMan transcribed some of the work he released a couple of days ago – grab the jpegs if you want to play these!(Louis Wu 13:34:21 UTC)

Narcogen is curious about Neill Blomkamp – is he the chosen director of the Halo film? If so, why hasn’t the announcement been finalized? If not, why haven’t his interviews been disclaimed? He also takes a look at the appropriateness of the choice, with a summary of arguments for, and against, Blomkamp as director. Check…

KP has written an article entitled ‘Top 7 Reasons Why H2V Rocks’ in the ongoing Vistravaganza that is Halo 2 Vista week at Bungie.net – from enhanced visuals to custom content, this list will let you know why you want to be plunking down your hard-earned samoleons when Vista is released (and H2V is available).…

Bungie has just opened a new section of their website – Halo 2 Vista. There’s not much there yet, except a FAQ and some screenshots – but the screenshots are GORGEOUS. I wanna play. (And oh, yeah… up in the top right corner of the site is a new search box. Hint – it works…

It’s amazing – not only are Halo 1 tricking videos still being released… but folks are still coming up with new tricks! Over at High Impact Halo, BigGruntyThirst posted a variety vid recently that contained a trick I’ve never seen before – and actually, according to Ducain, it’s brand-new! Go check it out.(Louis Wu 13:53:38…

At IGN, there’s a short Hands-on piece about Halo 2 Vista from Leipzig – they suggested that the gameplay we saw yesterday WAS using a keyboard and mouse (suggesting that the code in use at Leipzig is NOT from the latest sprint, as described by Matt Priestley on Monday – I suppose this isn’t surprising,…

Flash2000, a member of the RvB fan community, had the opportunity to ask Neill Blomkamp a couple of questions, generated from that same community, about the upcoming Halo movie. Those questions – and Mr. Blomkamp’s answers – can be found in this RvB forum thread. (Joe Cool posted a link to an entry in Flash2000’s…

Rapture’s getting a jump on things – he’s compiled a whole bunch of Halo 2 Vista information in a FAQ and Game Details document. If you were wondering whether you needed DX10, or how Halo 2 differs from Halo 2 Vista… this is the go-to document! Check it out.(Louis Wu 04:04:55 UTC)

Wow – swing by GameVideos.com for some fresh-off-the-show-floor footage of Halo 2 Vista in action at the Leipzig Game Convention in Germany. It looks like folks are having a bit of trouble with the transition to the keyboard, if you ask me… too many players shooting and not moving. To be expected with the very…

This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge was against the Halo 2 Vista development team – and it looks like they’re busy actually CODING, because they let the Community team (which doesn’t do much except listen to people gripe about stupid new playlists) schooled ’em, 3 games to none. KP tried to play it off as a…

I’ve been wondering how long it would take for someone to make a wordplay joke about the Halo Graphic Novel’s first story… figures it would be Stuntmutt doing it in a One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 20:11:57 UTC)

Wow, very cool. TheGarbageMan posted a whole series of Halo theme variation sketches – there are 10 snippets, all for piano, plus some commentary. Great stuff! (If we kill his bandwidth, we’ll certainly put up local copies.)(Louis Wu 19:52:34 UTC)