Category: HBO

The Bungie Weekly Update was posted a little bit ago; it’s got some great coverage of Bungie’s involvement with Comic-Con last week, along with some XBL playlist info (more of that coming soon), and of course a few choice whaaambulance entries. And a Zidane/Mister Chief animation that would have been even funnier if Zidane’s head…

w00t! One contest ends, another begins! Before I explain, let me clear out some old business; it took a bit to secure them all, but we can now announce that the 7 winners of the last 7 on the 7th contest – Sacred Lawnmowers – will be receiving copies of the Halo Graphic Novel. (YES!)…

Sigafoos writes to point out WikiRiot Episode 9 – 40 minutes, 16 mb. Lots of Halowiki-related info, an interview with CoB Relevance, and a call for speech submissions (they’re looking to start an accent archive of Halo players). Check it out!(Louis Wu 19:29:48 UTC)

Matt Hollum, the voice of Sarge on Red vs Blue, will be interviewed (along with other cast members) on August 9th, over at Podtacular – and they’re taking questions now. Swing by and toss yours in the hat! Thanks, Laird.(Louis Wu 19:11:02 UTC)

In response to some feedback we received from forumgoers, Cybrfrk made some changes to the information submitters get from the MPRRS; it’s all an ongoing effort to improve the overall quality of Halo machinima released to the public. We hope you keep using the system!(Louis Wu 18:46:19 UTC)

Michael Hogsett found this image in a Worth1000 contest – ‘Video games that never got made’. (The same contest contained this image, as well… I think I like the Halo Kitty one better.) Check out the rest of the contest – there are some funny ones in there!(Louis Wu 17:06:06 UTC)

Whee! Out with one rumor, in with the next! Joystiq is speculating that from a pure business sense, Bungie would be dumb not to make a couple more Halo games after Halo 3 is released. (In their defense, they admit they have no inside information about this, they realize that Bungie employees have already hinted…

QuickTactical and the rest of the Epic Films crew put together ‘Originality’, a vid that discusses what NOT to do with your next Halo machinima project. They submitted this to the MPRRS – but because of a reviewer who simply didn’t get it (and scored it almost 50 points lower than the average), it didn’t…

The title of today’s One One Se7en was snagged from a Halo fan – who in turn stole it from a dead guy. Seems sort of fitting, given the content of the strip…(Louis Wu 13:58:07 UTC)

Heh – today’s Press Start to Play is pretty funny – though it could legitimately be said to contain Halo 2 spoilers. Thanks, Half left.(Louis Wu 13:11:32 UTC)

We got a note from ZE of ZION ENTITY, who wanted to point out a song he created called HALO. You can hear it on his MySpace page.(Louis Wu 12:34:33 UTC)

Dweezle wrote to let us know about new content at Dead Man’s Hand; there’s a discussion about glitches, and whether they should be exploited or not, there’s an interview with Xbox.com’s TriXie (no Halo content, but it’s a fun read), and there’s a rant about cheating. Give it a look! (And if you’re a writer,…

KLind stopped by to point out a short interview with Steve Downs he’s posted on his blog; a nice look at the actor’s side of the game!(Louis Wu 12:08:58 UTC)

This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge was played against the Blood Gulch Regulars – a last-minute matchup that ended in Bungie’s favor. (Maybe they should schedule ALL their matches at the last minute!) The one thing I learned from the writeup is not to talk smack about KP’s mom. Overall, though, it sounded like a lot…

Small Fan Fiction update this week – just 10 stories. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 11:58:09 UTC)

Video Game Control is running a tournament in Milwaukee, WI in early September; $40pp to register, $2000 prize. More info in this forum post.(Louis Wu 11:52:27 UTC)

Eric Nylund wrote to squash some rumors that have been floating around; You might have seen the note at SPOnG today that speculated that a new, non-Halo Bungie title would be announced at X06 in Barcelona in September. This came hot on the heels of the pickup of a small tidbit from a Nylund blog…

Bah… missed this last night. DropShock Episode 20 was posted yesterday; just over an hour, 31 mb. Give it a listen.(Louis Wu 18:27:55 UTC)

The MPRRS reviewers have definitely turned up the heat on review times; in short order, the queue has dropped from almost 20 to nearly empty. (There are 5 videos in the queue that are about to be finished, which will drop the queue size to a single movie.) Another passing vid – Episode 6 of…

At long last, Sponsors vs Freeloaders has been continued; Episode 10 was released last night. It’s 11 minutes long, and answers a bunch of questions left open in Episode 9 (though it asks a bunch more) – you can grab high and low res WMP9 versions, and a low-res QuickTime version, from the SvF downloads…