Category: HBO

The latest missive on the Tied the Leader blog is a look at the changes to the Halo 2 playlists on Xbox Live. Nice read! Thanks, XerxdeeJ.

Narcogen looks pretty deeply at the videogame-as-art issue (can a videogame be art? Can the story told by a game be as rich as the story told, say, in a novel, or by a film?) in his latest Retort at Rampancy.net. Go read – but prepare to think.

Davidgojr submitted his montage, Click-Boom, to the MPRRS yesterday – they loved it. (The music, some felt, was overused… but sometimes you just have to go with a classic.) Great organization, some very fun techniques. A seven minute montage – and no black screens anywhere! Grab it in WMP9 format (87.7 mb) or QuickTime format…

One of the rumors floating around last week was that someone other than Bungie was working on Halo 3. Stuntmutt speculates on who it might be in today’s One One Se7en.

Eight new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today. What are you waiting for?

Some cool MLG content, again courtesy of 3Suns – there’s the new Gallery, with some pretty darned slick organization, there’s the newest Player of the Week piece, focusing on Walshy, and there’s a blog spotlight on Xena (warning: Here There Be Pinkness). Check it out!

3Suns (who’s still angling for a site rename, it seems), points out this article at Gamespot, which has a neat way to compare the graphics on the Xbox vs the 360. (Yes, they use Halo 2, so it’s relevant.)

Heh – Dustin Kaufman found Master Chief’s MySpace. Even the Spartans are getting one…

dZ x TheOwnly’s posted a new montage at Halo2Forum.com – 10 minutes long, 134 mb. The motion gets pretty frenetic by the end. Thanks to Z for the heads-up.

Qbakies let us know yesterday about his gaming blog, Almighty Q(uandaries)… and today, he’s updated it again with a new entry that looks at Halo, and Bungie’s realization of online socialization that we know as MatchMaking, as family-builders – not the family you were born into, but the people you choose to surround yourself with.…

Joystiq listed the top ten ‘hidden gems of our generation’, videogamewise… and Stubbs the Zombie tied for 10th. Way to go! Thanks once again to 3Suns, who is quietly lobbying to get this website renamed ‘3Sunsnews.bungie.org’.

Hehe – Voodoo Extreme is running a ‘Best Fansite of 2005’ poll… and we’ve been nominated. I don’t think we stand a snowball’s chance in Burial Mounds, given the competition and VE’s core audience… but it’s pretty cool nonetheless. Go vote! Master3xBOx was first with the news.

The second part of Dyslexia’s MLG Atlanta writeup has been posted at MLGPro.com – fantastic writeup, though I wish he’d have mentioned the maps they were playing on. (They’re not ANYWHERE that I can find, in fact.) Go read about all the action! (The VoD Atlanta footage is back up, as well.) Thanks again to…

IGN continues to post new information about Dead or Alive 4… and there continues to be new info about the Halo tie-in. This article has info about Nicole’s special attacks (The MAC lunge and a plasma grenade move, for example), as well as another mini-interview with Itagaki. There’s some pretty interesting stuff in there -…

Interesting; 3of9, over at Subnova.com, noticed an interview with Peter Jackson at Dark Horizons; it’s mostly about King Kong, but it has some fun quotes pertaining to Jackson’s upcoming work on the Halo movie. You can read the entire interview at Dark Horizons, or the Halo-related chunk (in its entirety) at Subnova.

Wow. GamesRadar has one of the more bizarre ‘news’ articles I’ve seen in a while; they’re suggesting that Halo 3 (a title that hasn’t even been announced yet) might come on 4 double-layer DVDs. Where does this come from? Well, apparently someone is claiming that “one particular ‘highly anticipated’ Xbox 360 title is currently taking…

Wow… even Stuntmutt is getting into the Del Toro-as-the-Halo-director speculation in today’s One One Se7en.

Ten pieces added to the Fan Fiction section over the weekend – go read!

A new blog has popped up to keep tabs on developments about the Halo movie – there’s nothing there yet that hasn’t been posted elsewhere (like here, for example), but it’s nice to have a central repository. Thanks, Paul Hayes.

Narcogen continues his look at the Halo script that’s been floating around the net, specifically focusing on the MC-Cortana interaction. Interesting writeup. (No horrible spoilers, if you’re trying to keep yourself pure.)