Category: HBO

The Bungie Weekly Update is super-early this week – and it’s pretty short, though there are a sizeable number of Halo 3 teasers in it. No Mister Chief, either, because apparently Pinkuh made him too sexy. (Knowing Pinkuh, that almost certainly means there’s nudity involved… and I’m not sure I can stomach a nude Mister…

Tex created a pretty cool picture, illustrating a game she and Schooly D play on Xbox Live; she has to jump to her death before Schooly kills her. (I dunno, maybe it’s some sort of mating ritual or something.) Anyway, the picture was great, and she was kind enough to save a bunch of her…

ManKitten has started up the Second Annual Mankitten’s Halo 2 Treasure Hunt. (Last year’s hunt can be followed at this link.) Clue one just got posted – there aren’t any prizes, you’re playing for fun!(Louis Wu 17:38:53 UTC)

There’s an interview with Tom ‘Tsquared’ Taylor, of Gaming-lessons.com (and holder of one of the 5 quarter-million-dollar 3-year contracts with MLG) over at GameSetWatch. The last time this subject came up, our forum was filled with scorn for anyone who’d pay for lessons in Halo. I say if you’re willing to pay for golf or…

You might remember River Styx, a bit of machinima created by Elnea and OboeCrazy which has the distinction of being the first project to integrate Halo, The Sims 2, and World of Warcraft into one (relatively) seamless whole. Well, they’re back – and this time, River Styx Two is even MORE integrated. Check out the…

Just when you think the puns can’t get any worse… they get worse. If you live in California, please try and refrain from calling your lawyer after reading today’s One One Se7en. (I suppose there are probably other places with higher per-capita quantities of lawyers than California… but it’s still early, and I haven’t had…

A pair of tournament announcements from Johnathan Lugo on our forum – a Brooklyn FFA/2v2/4v4 tourney on September 2, and a NYC 2v2/FFA tourney on September 9. More details, including locations, entry fees, and prizes, in the posts.(Louis Wu 13:13:35 UTC)

A lot of new content is available over at Dead Man’s Hand this week; 22 Questions with both Podtacular’s Foo Mo Jive and author Eric Nylund, new feature called ‘Playlist Psyche’, where a particular playlist is analyzed by going over a representative game (this week’s installment looks at Multi-Team), and a number of other assorted…

TheGhost wrote to point out that he’s released the third installment of Project BlueStreak’s JMS Model Exporter. New features and info can be found on the Exporter’s web page. (While you’re there, check out the GBXModel Importer and the Animation Importer – both have received updates, as well. Download links and version histories are on…

Thirteen new pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 12:34:53 UTC)

Speedhuntr noticed a new Flash animation at Newgrounds – it’s a trailer for an upcoming series episode. Artwork, as Speedhuntr notes, is quite good. (Action is a bit gorey… but that’s par for the course with Newgrounds Flash, no?)(Louis Wu 12:24:12 UTC)

Forgot to post this yesterday – lol Pwn3d created a standalone (PC-only) app that lets you run through his recreation of Beaver Creek – no guns, but nice textures! 5.6 mb, hosted at FileFront.(Louis Wu 12:04:39 UTC)

KP wrote up Bungie’s side of the Humpday Challenge story last night (we mentioned Junk’s writeup yesterday) – sounds like it was a pretty fun set of matches for everyone!(Louis Wu 11:52:44 UTC)

hunter_that_dances posted a couple of preliminary shots of some work he’s doing to bring the Halo energy sword into Second Life… nice!(Louis Wu 11:39:47 UTC)

Wow. There’s an article at AOL Games called ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Halo’ – it’s about a male staffer taking on three members of the PMS clan (yes, all female), in various games. Despite the piece’s title, Halo was NOT one of the three games. (Yes, I know that this makes the…

Jillybean rounded up a goodly amount of recent speculation based on the Halo Graphic Novel, for presentation to you in digestible form, on the Halo Story Page. And what would a Jillybean update be without a gratuitous shot at Cortana? Go read.(Louis Wu 19:23:30 UTC)

Last night’s Halo Humpday Challenge was played against the crew of Halo2.Junk.ws, a Halo 2 stats site. The writeup’s not posted yet at Bungie.net – but Junk’s went live a little bit ago. Looks like it was REALLY close; Bungie won two out of three, but all three scores were nailbiters. (10:00-9:23, 80-78, and 1:00-0:59.)…

Arteen has released Grove, a new HaloCE map ‘set in the lush canyons of Halo, among long-abandoned Forerunner structures.’ Very pretty – you can grab a copy at Halo Maps. Thanks to Dennis Powers for the heads-up (he was tickled by the fact that two of the characters from his Valley of the Forerunners series…

Kotaku has a bit about a hand-painted Halo Faceplate for sale on eBay – if you hurry, you can still get your bid in. (It’s currently sitting at $84, with a bit over a day still remaining.) I’ve provided a link to the US eBay site – but if you’re in Canada, you can use…

GotFrag takes a look at the two biggest organizations handling Halo tournaments today – WSVG and MLG. Go read.(Louis Wu 13:34:04 UTC)