Category: HBO

This Spartan Life has released the final module for Episode 3 – it’s a music video/dance segment which revolves around a Halo 2 easter egg. It’s awesome. (Watch the synchronization of the dance choreography… and then think about what’s involved in getting that just right. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it done this well…

Newsarama has interviewed Brian Jarrard about the Halo Graphic Novel; info about how the project started, where the stories came from, how the artists and writers were signed up. Great questions, solid answers – go read! Several brand-new pieces of artwork, as well. Thanks, drummand.(Louis Wu 17:43:11 UTC)

Covinator and friends put together a ‘Real-life Montage’; Halo in their backyard. (Or maybe a park. Whatever.) Pretty funny stuff; he’s made it available at FileFront (WMP9 format, 20.4 mb). Grab a copy!(Louis Wu 16:58:19 UTC)

Interesting – turns out the ‘Exclusive Figure’ to be released at the San Diego Comic-Con this year is going to be an ODST – in two variants. The second contains what looks like pink Fluff all over him – but the packaging suggests it’s inspired by the Halo Graphic Novel artwork. Either way, there are…

Hmm… The most recent comment from Bungie about any work they’re doing (or not doing) on an Xbox Live arcade title came back in March, in a Bungie Weekly Update. (Well, there was a question about Marathon on XBLA in this update, but Frankie said it’s not happening.) In May, during an interview with IGN,…

A few days ago, a montage submitted by uK x HoBo was passed by the MPRRS – nice timing, nice quality. Advance warning – the first song is pretty rude. R-rated, even. That said – the reviewers said go ahead and release, so we’re releasing. WMP9 version is 69.7 mb, QuickTime version is 74.8 mb.…

Last week, we mentioned an audio release of a talk given by Jaime Griesemer, Marty O’Donnell, and Mat Noguchi at the 2003 Game Developers Conference, entitled ‘Halo: Development Evolved’. Jaime was kind enough to send along the slides he presented at that talk – so now you can get both the audio AND the visuals!(Louis…

Still more original Halo fun with Rockslider – collect your marines and go to town!(Louis Wu 13:10:25 UTC)

Chairleg Productions has created a number of Halo-based machinima projects – most (all?) have met with critical success. They’re funny, they’re well-filmed, they’ve got high production qualities. They’ve got a new series just beginning: MPs. They submitted Episode 1 to the MPRRS last week – and were given a high passing score. They asked us…

Laird stopped by our forum to present a few teaser pics and describe a new project; a 3d animated Halo space battle video. Swing by, take a look!(Louis Wu 12:43:18 UTC)

Over at Tied the Leader, you can read about how the TTL Gunslingers aren’t letting Clan Matches die with the loss of the Clan playlists. Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 12:39:00 UTC)

Heh – depending on how you look at the numbers, Halo is still the media king – or it’s not. Much hay was made of the fact that Halo 2 made $125 million in its first 24 hours, and that this beat the record for ‘biggest opening weekend box office take’, held at the time…

When we hosted our ‘Going Nowhere Fast’ contest a few years ago, the winning time for the Library speedrun was 20:57 – and that was 5 minutes faster than the second-place finisher. Since then, time has been chipped off that record… but yesterday, a new vid was uploaded to High Speed Halo (WMP9 format, 29.2…

Only peripherally Halo-related… but interesting nonetheless; Gamasutra has an artcle discussing Xbox Live – and a pretty amazing 60% attach rate for Xbox 360 owners. (That means 60% of all 360s are linked to an Xbox Live account – compare this to the Xbox attach rate of only 10%.) Halo plays a large role in…

The Halouvre continues in its quest to collect and display the most artistic fan-created Halo media – they’ve opened a video section, the Halouvre Film Collection. Attractive, easy-to-use presentation, coupled with the rationale behind each vid’s inclusion, makes this collection a solid resource – check it out! Thanks, prometheus.(Louis Wu 11:49:33 UTC)

Oddness; has the Halo Graphic Novel been delayed, or is Amazon just a bit messed up? Random Year Old noticed that the HGN’s listing at Amazon has a release date of August 2 (not the original date of July 12, nor the recently-posted date of July 19) – and if you want yet ANOTHER date,…

What do you do when you’re all out of puns? Well, bathroom humor is always a possibility. Check out today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 12:06:08 UTC)

Over at MLGPro.com, there’s an analysis of the top seeds on the Pro (and semi-pro) Halo circuit, as they gear up for MLG Chicago in a week. Nice writeup, though I’d have liked to see at least a mention of the Intel Summer Championships played recently; several of the top teams competed there. (Yeah, I…

Pinkuh posted an image showing what she thinks the MC might look like without his armor. It’s not done, but there’s enough there for some serious commentary. It’s been added to her Gallery page here (in the unfinished section).(Louis Wu 11:48:51 UTC)

Finn woke up from a nap long enough to gather up a few of the more interesting tidbits to come to light over the past couple of weeks; swing by the Halo Story page for more details!(Louis Wu 11:07:57 UTC)