Category: HBO

XerxdeeJ stopped by to point out that Tied the Leader has been updated – there’s a readers poll on sportsmanship, a treatise on teamwork (and whining), and a stroll through the referral logs, checking out what people are looking for. Go read!(Louis Wu 13:14:14 UTC)

I’m not thrilled with YouTube – but this one’s pretty darned funny. Swing by to see the original Halo 3 trailer… the special effects on Cortana must be seen to be believed. Thanks to Konrad, via IRC, for this one.(Louis Wu 02:31:35 UTC)

The MPRRS queue has been getting pretty long recently – Cybrfrk just brought in some new blood to try and clear out some of the movies that have been languishing. The first pass out of the gate is ‘Lost: Halostyle Episode 5’ – a continuation of a pretty funny series. (This episode is quite good,…

Over at Gamasutra, they’ve started their own podcast (everybody’s doing it!), and the first one is actually a recording of the talk given at the 2003 Game Developers Conference by Marty O’Donnell, Jaime Griesemer, and Mat Noguchi, entitled ‘Halo: Development Evolved’. It’s just over an hour long, weighs in at only 14 mb, and is…

He’s at it again; c0ld vengeance has posted 10 screenshots on our forum, and challenged you, the viewer, to come up with an exact location for each one. You’re going to need to be pretty specific on these… check it out! Update: DOH! 2 minutes after I posted this, c0ld confirmed that Dojorkan had nailed…

Foo Mo Jive, one of the men behind Podtacular, has been Spotlighted over at Bungie.net – KP has gotten the lowdown on the man who blew his one big chance to make money on the Halo community. Art majors the world around – take note! elessar787 was first, it seems.(Louis Wu 21:06:48 UTC)

In today’s One One Se7en, Stuntmutt looks at one of the characters that was cut from Halo 2 – maybe Bungie recognized the terrible pun potential and cut it in an attempt to avert disaster. Oh, well.(Louis Wu 15:24:43 UTC)

Over at the Escapist, there’s a great article about honor-system-based Halo 2 gametypes (with Zombies being the primary example); these will never show up in Matchmaking lists (because they require that everyone play by non-enforceable rules), but they’re loads of fun. Really enjoyable writeup. Thanks, mercury.(Louis Wu 15:13:00 UTC)

Halo: Portable has a bunch of updates – there’s a new design, new bandwidth, a new podcast, and plenty of their usual sorts of content. Swing by and fill up your portable device!(Louis Wu 15:01:30 UTC)

A few days ago, Hextall27 pointed out on our forum that Play! (a videogame music concert series) will be coming to Detroit on July 12. We didn’t pick up on it then, so he sent it to us via email. The Play team is hooking up with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for this event… if…

Sep7imus noticed an article over at Wired which discusses the lack of a ‘Lester Bangs’ of gaming. (Lester Bangs, for those of you under 20, wrote about rock music in the 70s and is considered by many to be the first really influential ‘rock critic’.) The article isn’t really Halo-related (Halo 2 gets a tiny…

The WSVG Intel Summer Championship kicks off today – doors open at noon, central time. GotFrag will be providing coverage – keep an eye on their site!(Louis Wu 14:00:06 UTC)

And that pretty much does it for today; HBO’s taking the rest of this July Fourth holiday off for barbecues, swimming, and maybe blowing stuff up when it gets dark. Enjoy – we’re back tomorrow!(Louis Wu 12:27:47 UTC)

KLind has set up an interview with Eric Nylund at the end of the month, and is currently soliciting questions; swing by his forum post for an email address to send them to. The author of Fall of Reach, First Strike, and the upcoming Ghosts of Coral (or whatever it ends up being called) knows…

Pinkuh created a pretty cool piece of art for Mary Jane, a co-founder of the PMS Clan; you can find it in her forum post, or in her HBO Gallery. Those are some long legs!(Louis Wu 12:25:19 UTC)

GotFrag has a writeup of the RRX glitch, and how players will need to adapt to best take advantage of it. Remember; this is aimed at the pro community, for the most part; Bungie has said that this (and other exploits that circumvent the normal play of the game) should be considered cheating in Matchmaking.…

ban381 posted an old, unfinished Flash game he’d been working on to our forum; artwork is actually quite good. It’s not very big, but if we end up crushing his server with this, we’ll host a local copy.(Louis Wu 12:24:05 UTC)

HaloGM is a CS Source-based Halo mod using Garrysmod – this forum post contains download links and a few screenshots of Wizard. Take a look! Thanks, Samir Patel.(Louis Wu 12:23:37 UTC)

Eric Nylund has set up a blog – swing by to keep in touch with the author of two (soon to be three) Halo novels! You can contact him directly via an email link available on his profile page. (Don’t abuse this, please – I’d hate it if we lost this opportunity because some fans…

WikiRiot has two separate podcasts today – gestor and LegendaryMark created 005A while at the Clan of Bobs LAN, and Brathnok did 005B by himself (he didn’t make it to the LAN). Almost an hour between the two – go listen!(Louis Wu 15:10:18 UTC)