Category: HBO

The GT Countdown series continues at GameTrailers, with “Top Ten Best Weapons” – a video listing of the 10 best weapons in video games. Halo 2’s energy sword comes in at number 5. Thanks to Keyes86, who submitted this yesterday; I just didn’t get to it.(Louis Wu 22:40:58 UTC)

Halo-related portable media mogul Mintz is the focus of the latest Community Spotlight over at Bungie.net – go read about how far out in the middle of nowhere he actually lives. Dojorkan was first, it seems.(Louis Wu 22:12:13 UTC)

c0ld vengeance composited a wonderful shot on Gemini – check out MC’s newest nemesis. (I’m not marking this with a spoiler tag, because this creature never actually made it into the game… but technically…) You can also find a 3DVR version in this post.(Louis Wu 22:06:45 UTC)

Sane Intolerant noticed that the current Sore Thumbs Online comic has some Halo/MLG references… and with that, I’m out for a while.(Louis Wu 18:41:27 UTC)

Today’s One One Se7en is a bit gorey… but only if you think about it.(Louis Wu 18:00:46 UTC)

FyreWulff is working on a SPNKR remake of a rocket launcher for July 4 – pics are in his forum post.(Louis Wu 17:51:40 UTC)

Tons of MLG Anaheim news at MLGPro.com – a wrapup article, a spotlight on Carbon (beaten in their first round match, they STILL came back to face FB in the finals), and the brackets themselves (4×4 | 1×1). Congrats to Karma for taking the 1×1, and Final Boss for the 4×4. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 17:35:54…

Mastergunnz posted a note on our forum, looking for folks with experience using Game Maker 6; his team is putting together ‘Halo: Spartan of Reach’, a new top-down Halo-based game. Visit the post for more details!(Louis Wu 17:11:01 UTC)

Jon Campbell points out that the August issue of the Official Xbox 360 Magazine has a huge article on Halo 3 – an indepth look at the teaser trailer, a preview of the HGN, and more. (It got the cover again, as well.) Look for it on newsstands soon!(Louis Wu 17:06:37 UTC)

Wow. Circuit City is having a huge July 4th week sale, and if you visit Cheapassgamers.com (registration required to see the list), there’s a list of games scheduled to be part of this sale… and the Halo Triple Pack (Halo, Halo 2, Halo Multiplayer Map Pack) is on the list. $9 – don’t miss this!…

The latest Halo How-to book from Stephen Cawood is now out; it’s called ‘The Black Art of Halo Mods’, and there’s some information about community input over at HaloMods. The news story there says ‘click the button on the right to support HaloMods’ – you’ll need to visit the front page to see that button…

Christopher T is going out for Halloween this year dressed as a Spartan. He and his dad took their inspiration from Chris Bryan, and are putting together a fiberglass suit for Christopher to grab some goodies in. Visit this page for some shots of some cardboard representations!(Louis Wu 22:24:07 UTC)

The Halo CMT team has finished the conversion of the single player maps to Halo CE; there are several places you can read about it. On the CMT forums, there’s a full list of download links (maps, UI, extras, tutorials); the same info was posted on the Gearbox forums as well. There’s a thread on…

Heh – In the photo gallery being built over at MLGPro.com for the MLG Anaheim event, you can see a shot of Foulacy, of Str8 Rippin, wearing the unique Stuntmutt-designed HBO t-shirt! Front | Back in the gallery… Coppermine doesn’t seem allow links to remain permanent, so if these stop pointing to the right pics,…

Over at IGN Comics, there’s a nice interview with Brian Jarrard (aka SketchFactor) about the Halo Graphic Novel – including a few new art tidbits. Go learn new stuff about this project. Lots of people sent this in – looks like BitMaP was first.(Louis Wu 03:37:58 UTC)

Sbear pointed out that there are pictures and a sponsors-only video of the recent A-kon event in Texas over at the Edgeworks/Codex web page. Check it out!(Louis Wu 03:31:42 UTC)

smudge man wrote to point out a big Halo 2 tourney at Halo Jungle – top prize is a full year of free hosting with Web Frenzy. Swing by this forum post for more details and full rules.(Louis Wu 03:28:10 UTC)

Quick word of warning – looks like I’m busier here in Seattle than I’d expected; keeping up on the forum is going to be rough. If you have something you think is newsworthy that’s posted on the forum – please, send it via email to halo@bungie.org. Thanks!(Louis Wu 15:22:47 UTC)

Sigafoos let us know that Halo2Wiki’s podcast, WikiRiot, has released episode 4. You can also download it from iTunes.(Louis Wu 15:20:31 UTC)

Dennis Powers pointed out that FireDragon04 has celebrated his 23rd birthday by releasing 6 new Halo CE maps: Desolate, Deceit, Denial, Defy, Ceaseless, and Shockwave. Go check ’em out!(Louis Wu 15:18:02 UTC)