Category: HBO

Last week, bryboy remix’s video ‘Corrupt’ passed the MPRRS with flying colors – but we wanted to get hold of a higher-quality version before we released it. That came in today – so we’re posting it, in both WMP9 format (79.4 mb) and QuickTime format (79 mb). It tells the story of a disillusioned man…

Charles Walsh is (like the rest of us) dying for more info about the Halo movie – so he went digging around on the Weta Workshop website. He found four people who are (publicly) working on Halo assets: Greg Broadmore, Brad Goff , Daniel Falconer, and Stephen Crowe. It’s not a LOT of info… but…

raheem azam sent us a note about a user on YouTube that has a series of short, low-quality videos of a Brute… breakdancing. Huh? If anyone can get better video of this… I’d love to see it. (And host it, of course.)(Louis Wu 00:52:16 UTC)

Bungie matched up against another gaming studio when their planned opponents for this week’s Humpday Challenge backed out at the last minute – and clearly, they went hunting for a studio that hadn’t actually had time to play Halo yet. (Because, I dunno, maybe they were… making games?) It was a rout – but apparently…

I love it – Mile5123 stopped by to point out a great piece on his DeviantART site. We heart deadly penguins.(Louis Wu 21:41:25 UTC)

Lordstemplar1 submitted Prophecy Episode 1 – ‘The Threshold of War’ to the MPRRS recently, and they gave it a thumbs-up. (You might remember the trailer, which came through a couple of weeks ago.) This one sets up the story – action’s a bit light, but tension is building. It was originally submitted encoded with the…

Very nice. AngelicLionheart found a solid oak carved plasma rifle on eBay – starting bid is $150, buy it now price is $25 higher, there are just about 2 days left. Pretty nicely done! Check it out.(Louis Wu 19:33:53 UTC)

Over at Bungie.net, there’s an announcement about a Halo 2 tourney for charity in Wisconsin, coming up next weekend. $5 (or 5 cans of non-perishable food items) gets you in, prizes come from a lot of places. Visit B.net for more info!(Louis Wu 18:33:12 UTC)

Whoa, very cool. You might remember corpseguy – he was working on a Halo helmet. He stopped by the HaloPlanet forums today – looks like he’s nearly done with the full suit! Looks fantastic. Thanks, hedfones.(Louis Wu 17:55:49 UTC)

IGN interviewed Greg Canessa, the leader of the Xbox Live team, about the future of Xbox Live Arcade; there are a few questions pertaining to the Halo franchise. Nothing definite, nothing in the near future… but some interesting ideas. Thanks, beaurichardson.(Louis Wu 17:44:30 UTC)

The High Speed Halo crew has completed one of their bigger goals – Halo 2, Legendary, in under 2 hours. (The record right now stands at 1:58:55, actually.) Check this forum post by Cody Miller, then swing by HSH for downloadable runs. Congrats, guys!(Louis Wu 17:17:32 UTC)

Wow, very cool. TheGhost stopped by with a few extracted Halo animations, in animated gif format. These look great!(Louis Wu 12:14:04 UTC)

Gryponosiris penned a poem about XBL cheaters – everyone liked it except Frankie. (I think his sense of humor must have been tied up in his hair.)(Louis Wu 12:03:39 UTC)

Dojorkan kicked off a ‘caption contest’, in the spirit of the old ones Bungie use to run, on our forum yesterday. Modded screenshot, you write the caption. (No, there’s no prize.) Personally, I think this makes more sense on a flat-style forum… but who am I, anyway?(Louis Wu 11:58:39 UTC)

Yesterday, Galen Eymer stopped by our forum with the announcement of a new Halo 1 egg. Normally, I’d have expected such an announcement to be laughed out of the forum – after all, Halo 1 is approaching 5 years old; how is it possible that there are still eggs (especially in-plain-sight ones, as this one…

Back in early July, Metroid05, of the Atomik Films crew, submitted a trailer for Project Crimson, a machinima series they’re in the process of making. The MPRRS reviewers liked it, but the instructions we got about hosting were unclear – and Metroid05’s email wasn’t working. Today, the hosting questions were answered, so we’re making the…

Some gametypes just don’t allow for fudging. Stuntmutt looks at one in today’s One One Se7en. (If you like this strip, thank Ducain… though he didn’t inspire its actual content. And that’s all I have to say about that.)(Louis Wu 14:55:32 UTC)

Well, I think it’s a dumb title for a list (the 21st century just started, it’s silly to start ranking the top 100 ANYTHINGS in it yet), but it’s still saying a lot about the games mentioned; Next Generation has published their ‘Top 100 Games of the 21st Century’, based on unit sales so far…

Okay, this is getting stupid. Last week, I sent out a request for mailing addresses to all the winners of the last 7 on the 7th contest (the grass-cutting one), so that Bungie could mail them prizes. I know that sometimes it takes a few days for people to answer these things, so I didn’t…

Dojorkan found a cool little tidbit hidden in plain sight – I say that because I’ve walked by it dozens of times and never noticed it. (I’m sure I will now receive hundreds of emails from people who DID see it – let’s save us both some hassle, and just SAY you sent it… pat…