Category: HBO

Our most recent 7 on the 7th contest had the fewest number of valid entries to of any contest to date; I blame the short timeframe and the relatively unorthodox ruleset. That said, we got some great entries! The hands-down favorite of all the judges was Omega’s ‘Grunt Crossing’ – but this is a 7…

WikiRiot Episode 8 has been posted – Challenges, Content, and Clan4Food. Check it!(Louis Wu 19:43:56 UTC)

If you’re in San Diego, the Comic-Con is the place to be – and SketchFactor has posted some Bungie/Halo-related info on Bungie.net. Go read!(Louis Wu 18:27:52 UTC)

Whoa, funky. Rockslider has written up yet another way to gather additional marines on AotCR, in the original Halo – and this way actually gets you a new 16-second speech from Sergeant Johnson. Read his post for more details(Louis Wu 15:53:21 UTC)

Halfofthetime submitted a music vid that sets Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy’ to modded Halo action; nice work. The MPRRS gave it a green light – so grab your copy in WMP9 format (36.8 mb) or QuickTime format (39.2 mb). (Louis Wu 15:30:14 UTC)

Xar8 put together a really cool little Master Chief sculpture – and sent us some pics. You’ll find ’em here. I want one!(Louis Wu 14:02:27 UTC)

Stuntmutt has been playing with new toys. As today’s One One Se7en shows, though, there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. (I’m going to refrain from any corn references here.)(Louis Wu 13:45:29 UTC)

Sixteen new pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 11:39:39 UTC)

TheMaker420 sent word of Xbox Gaming Radio (XGR), volume 1 – it contains discussion of many Halo 2-related websites, along with other games. Guest hosts this week are Xetzu and MaCeGac, talking about Oblivion. You can grab a copy from High Impact Noise or 360 Uploads.(Louis Wu 11:25:29 UTC)

There’s an interview with Matt ‘Zyos’ Leto over at IGN, as part of the ramp-up to the Championship Gaming Invitational kicking off today. I’m not sure how many top Halo players will actually be there… considering that MLG Chicago kicks off today, as well. Nevertheless, it’s a fine read.(Louis Wu 11:17:31 UTC)

Dead Man’s Hand has been busy – lots of new Halo content over there right now. There’s a discussion of story-driven games (using Halo as a positive example), a look at the franchisement of Halo (Masterchief Shampoo… hmm), an Ode to Banshee (you know you love something when you start writing poetry about it), and…

KP has put up Bungie’s side of the Halo Humpday Challenge story – and surprisingly enough, with the exception of a few nose-tweaks, he was pretty civil about the whole thing. No mention of the loss of their no-losing streak… but then, they really lost that last week, so I guess he’s being even MORE…

Interesting – there’s a tournament run the 3rd Tuesday of every month (yes, that means you missed the most recent one by two days) over at 2old2play – in order to enter, you must be at least 40 years old. jynxonline put together a really nice promo vid for it – swing by and watch…

trigger119 wrote an article entitled ‘Halo Machinima: Why do it?’ – he looks at some of the motivations that drive filmmakers. As a jumping-off place for a discussion, this is worth a read.(Louis Wu 21:09:11 UTC)

Jayshum transcribed the piano part of the Halo 3 theme, heard in the trailer. You can find a lot of info in this forum post.(Louis Wu 21:05:10 UTC)

The Halowiki.net crew played Bungie last night in this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge – and no matter what you thought of last week’s somewhat sleazy manner of ‘not losing’, there’s no denying that this week the Bungie crew lost. Lost hard, even. Go read LegendaryMark’s writeup at HaloWiki.net – KP’s still nursing his wounds, it…

Finn awoke from his real-life ‘slumber’ to gather some gems from older Weekly Updates; they’re not NEW bits, but they’re bits nonetheless. You’ll find this collection on the Halo Story Page. Now don’t bother Finn any more – he’s got work to do. (And not for us.)(Louis Wu 15:02:32 UTC)

Farfalo stopped by to let us know about Halo: First Offensive, a mod for Star Wars: Empire at War. They’ve got a forum up (link is in the above post), if you want more info!(Louis Wu 13:31:51 UTC)

Yayap the Grunt let us know about a Halo 3 pendant he’d created; check out his work! (Louis Wu 13:29:17 UTC)

New updates over at Tied the Leader; a piece on good sportsmanship, and a fun feel-good bit about Big Team Battle, and how nice it is to go in with a full team of 8. (If you find XerxdeeJ’s stats in the included picture hard to believe… believe anyway. They’re real.) Thanks to XerxdeeJ for…