Category: HBO

megadude139 found another video of a high school group playing Halo music – this was Klein Oak High School, in Spring, Texas, with the orchestra ensemble playing Halo and Halo music for a variety show in 2005. Pretty nice work! (YouTube, the vid itself is about 13 mb.)(Louis Wu 15:41:19 UTC)

Shrek writes to let us know about Halo Videos – a new Halo video site containing a pretty impressive collection of montages, gameplay, and humor vids. This is a great source of Halo 1 gameplay vids from back in the day!(Louis Wu 15:24:32 UTC)

WikiRiot, the podcast from the Halo2Wiki crowd, has its own website now – and episode 007. More room for show notes, and more. Go listen – 23 minutes, 9 mb.(Louis Wu 11:55:33 UTC)

We have yet another Game Developers Conference talk for you today – this time, it’s Chris Butcher and Bart House, in 2005, talking about ‘recreating the LAN party Online’. Fascinating, with tons of info about how Matchmaking works, along with lots of technical details about Halo 2 networking. Slides and audio are available.(Louis Wu 11:47:44…

Bry posted a number of images to our forum – a nicely customized X-Plane jet. Can you just see Frankie in the doorway of that thing?(Louis Wu 11:37:31 UTC)

Never say Pinkuh doesn’t respond to her fans. Her last image, showing the Master Chief without a helmet, spawned a surprisingly long forum thread, many people loving her interpretation, but others feeling that the Chief should never look this happy. (What a depressing view!) For the latter crowd, Pinkuh sketched a revised Chief – this…

The Se7enth Prophet decided to copy c0ld vengeance and create a series of Hide and Seek pics – these are on Outskirts, as well (because his disk is scratched) and the pics are photographed off the screen (which makes them a little hard to interpret) – but as of now, they’re not all solved, so…

Frankie’s in an up phase, I guess – tonight’s Weekly Update takes potshots at Marty (what else is new?), discusses Comic-Con, coming up next week, looks back at FPS’s in history, and provides a Mister Chief I never really needed to see. You can read it on Bungie.net, or you can read it in our…

Couple of new films to watch over at Halo3Forum.com – thanks, Z. There’s DaY?& EXP10S1ON’s DualTage – a mix of two players, a mix of Halo and Halo 2. And there’s a trailer for HANXU’s upcoming montage – some really long-range sticks. WMP9 format for both (135 and 17 mb, respectively). Go watch.(Louis Wu 19:58:33…

Captain Spark his dialogue snippet queue – there are 27 new Brute bits in the Dialogue Databank. As always, you can grab the lot from his website, if you don’t want to browse.(Louis Wu 17:21:58 UTC)

Knuxchao created a Halo Buddy Kit – a collection of sprite parts you can put together to create your own images. Link’s at the bottom of his forum post – pretty nice work!(Louis Wu 17:21:35 UTC)

In anticipation of more entertaining ‘Whaaaaamulance’ stories in tonight’s Weekly Update, Stuntmutt has put together a short guide to proper formatting of your ban protest. Go read today’s One One Se7en… and then write up those emails for Bungie!(Louis Wu 14:51:51 UTC)

So the deadline for the latest 7 on the 7th contest is coming up in a couple of days… and we don’t have any submissions yet! If folks have been waiting until this weekend to create their lawn-based masterpieces, cool – but if you’ve forgotten, now’s the time to think about it! C’mon… lots of…

Twenty-three new pieces this week in the Fan Fiction section – busy week! Go read.(Louis Wu 12:57:31 UTC)

We usually put up just a couple of copies of movies that pass the MPRRS (a QuickTime version that’s generally compatible with versions 5 and up, and a WMP9 version) – but yesterday, a vid passed that simply didn’t want to re-encode. Lordstemplar1 submitted a trailer for Prophecy, an upcoming machinima project, in H.264-encoded QuickTime…

SteveOll found an interview with Marty O’Donnell on the BBC website; Marty’s in the UK to speak at a game developers’ conference in Brighton. (They caught him on a beach – in a long-sleeved shirt with an undershirt. Way to enjoy the sun, Marty.) There are some great quotes in there – I liked this…

It’s not much – but it’s the most REAL Halo movie news we’ve seen in quite some time. Game Set Watch interviewed DB Weiss, who’s currently in the process of rewriting the Halo script:How far along with the screenplay are you?Just starting in on an entirely new second draft.Lest you think it’s an old interview…

For the second year in a row, Halo 2 was named Game of the Year by the Entertainment Merchants Association (though last year, it was the Video Software Dealers Association that did the award-giving; they merged with the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association in May to become the EMA). We mentioned the nomination a couple of…

Bungie played another Humpday Challenge last night – this time against the Gunslingers. (These aren’t the Tied the Leader Gunslingers – they’re an MLG clan, it seems. It’s all made more confusing by the fact that the TTL Gunslingers have, as the top story on their website, a piece called ‘MLG: Major League Gunslingers’. I…

A couple of nice articles over at MLGPro.com – ‘On a Power Trip – Next Stop: Chicago’ takes a look at MoBPowerTripBev.com, one of the up-and-coming teams hoping to play as one of the top 8 teams in Chicago… and ‘The Zone 6 Interview: Making A Stand’ has Trunkers sitting down with Zone 6, another…