Category: HBO

WikiRiot Episode 11 has been released – I’ve seen Star Wars/Halo comparisons, but this is the first X-Men/Halo matchup that I know of. 36 minutes, under 15 mb. Thanks, Sigafoos.(Louis Wu 17:43:05 UTC)

TheGhost writes in to let us know that Project BlueStreak, previously mentioned for its easy importing and exporting of models between Halo and 3Ds Max and Gmax, has been updated with an animation importer! He’s firmly on the way to a sweet suite of third-party Halo development tools. Go check this stuff out, and chime…

Frankie stopped by the forum earlier to note that the Bungie Weekly Update is up. Tidbits on everything from the newest Halo novel, to Halo 3 combat dialogue, graphics, and AI, to Halo 2 for Vista, and some various goings-on in Bungieville. Everything, that is, except info on the Halo movie. Nope nothing about it…

Just a quick reminder – the Design a Faceplate contest closes in about 11 hours. An amazing number of people ignored the admonition to not upload them anywhere but our Contest Uploads directory – I hate to have to do it, but there are almost 50 entries I need to toss because they were uploaded…

If you don’t know who Ernie Sabella is, Google’s your friend. Today’s One One Se7en mines a joke I can’t believe hasn’t been mined yet… that Stuntmutt, he keeps surprising.(Louis Wu 11:21:28 UTC)

Seventeen new pieces now up for reading in the Fan Fiction section… busy week!(Louis Wu 10:02:39 UTC)

Empire Magazine has a short article about Neill Blomkamp as the new Halo director, and while most of the info in is has been covered in other places in the last couple of days, they did manage to get a comment from Guillermo del Toro, who was considered for the job before Blomkamp, and who…

Obienator submitted a trailer for “The Haxor That Loved Me”, a sequel to “Gameplay May change During Online Play”, to the MPRRS; great cinematics, a well-thought-out storyline and over-the-top histrionics combine to bring you a pretty funny video. I’m looking forward to the full film! It won’t be out for a few months – so…

If you search our Miscellaneous Art collection, you’ll find a substantial body of work from Darkneshasfallen – he’s adding to that now, with a new project. He’s been illustrating scenes from the Halo novels – the first batch is available at this point, along with a series of sketches, showing his progress along the way.…

Dennis powers points out that the second episode of SightCEing, the visual tour of HaloCE beauty, is now available on the Halo CE Chronicles website. Some gorgeous landscapes to be found! QuickTime version is 40 mb, WMP9 is 37.5 mb. Check it out! (Louis Wu 02:03:50 UTC)

Over at Halo3Forum.com, you can find a trailer for a new montage vid from ArKiVe and Titan – pretty nice work! Thanks, Z.(Louis Wu 01:52:17 UTC)

Bungie got sliced, diced, and iced in last night’s Humpday Challenge against the PMS Clan – and KP gallantly ate the crow pie they made of our favorite developers in his writeup. Lesson learned here: Don’t play against the girls… they’ll stomp your butt and walk away laughing.(Louis Wu 01:49:36 UTC)

corpseguy continues to post progress pics of his homemade (but fantastic-looking) Mjolnir armor over at HaloPlanet – check out the latest pics!(Louis Wu 20:49:54 UTC)

Whoa, very nice. Aint It Cool News had a chance to ask Neill Blomkamp a few questions about Halo, and Neill’s goals with respect to the upcoming movie – after reading some of his answers, I’m pumped for the movie. He knows his stuff! (It tickled me to see my graphic work included gratuitously in…

LegendaryMark has written up an extensive article looking at the ‘uncanny valley’, that point at which photo-realistic work is close enough to REAL (but not ALL the way real) that it actually looks worse than if it were a bit less realistic – and how this concept might affect Halo 3. Interesting piece! Swing by…

As you might have noticed yesterday, an article went up on Xbox.com, announcing Neill Blomkamp as the director of the upcoming Halo movie – and then it went down again, leading to speculation that maybe it was a mistake. It MIGHT be a mistake – but it’s far more likely that it was just a…

KP, avoiding his duties dealing with Halo Movie rumors, has posted a new Community Spotlight over on Bungie.Net. Anne Wolanski of Seasoned Gamers tells a bit about their group, hyperventilating teenage potty-mouths, and the bizarre way she got into the entertainment industry. Check it out! Spartan Jag noted it on our forum, btw.(mnemesis 00:38:51 UTC)

Couple of new bits at Tied the Leader this week – a writeup of a huge LAN put on by 2old2play, and an invitation to a TTL LAN in Chicago coming up over Labor Day weekend. Check it out! Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 20:40:51 UTC)

Wow… according to Xbox.com, a director has been chosen for the Halo movie… and it’s a newcomer. Neill Blomkamp, who has a history of short films and commercial ads, will direct the Halo film as his first full-length big-screen project. Intriguing choice! Cornballer was first to our forum with the news.(Louis Wu 16:58:28 UTC)

Heh… the ‘I’m a Mac, I’m a PC’ style parodies have now extended to Halo machinima – thanks, Ename Nep.(Louis Wu 16:05:11 UTC)