Category: HBO

Joystiq has a pointer to an article at The Brig.org, looking at the top ten ways you know you’re playing too much Halo. (Yes, there’ve been dozens of these lists on our forum… but hey, this one got referenced by Joystiq, okay?) This one definitely seems aimed at an older crowd.

Father Hartley was the first to point out a short piece over at Dark Horizons – which, in turn, references a post at IESB which suggests that Peter Jackson is talking to Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Blade 2) about directing the Halo movie. If true (and independent info suggests that it very well may be),…

Eep, almost missed this. IGN’s got an article up about Dead or Alive 4, and the second page includes a mini-interview with Team Ninja leader Tomonobu Itagaki about the inclusion of Halo material in the game. No new screens, as far as I can tell (that haven’t already been released on other sites). Thanks, Wolfy.

Captain Spark has come out of self-imposed dialogue recording retirement to serve up another 11 snippets to the Halo community. These are pretty darn funny. You can grab them from his website, or browse them in our Dialogue Databank.

Podtacular Episode 34 is up – n00b tips, general tips, tips for Foundation (the map of the week) – these are just the tip of the iceberg. (Sorry.) 22.8 mb, 33 minutes. Visit Podtacular.com for more details.

The latest Halo Babies introduces new characters… and definitely moves away from the ‘Babies’ part. Still… it’s pretty funny! Go read.

Heh. Both EvilAvatar (thanks, Target4Hire) and Gamespot (thanks, T3muJin) have picked up on the wording of Bungie’s latest job listing. Could Bungie REALLY be making Pimps At Sea, using the Halo 2 engine? Your guess is as good as mine.

Daniel wrote to let us know that SETI@home, the organization that uses member computers around the world to help analyze radio telescope data in an attempt to find extraterrestrial computers, will be shifting to a completely new infrastructure in 2 weeks, and current groups will have their totals locked. From 1999 through 2002, the Halo…

A few days ago, Dustin Kaufman sent us a link to a movie at break.com, showing an Xbox360 commercial that never got released. It’s not really Halo-related (though you CAN say it’s FPS-related)… and break.com seems to be having some trouble with bandwidth issues, but it’s available on YouTube now, as well. Thanks to Pinkuh,…

Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, has gotten his hands on the script reviewed by El Mayimbe last month – and asserts that it’s credible. Interesting read!

Some great content over at Team3D – an interview with the OGREs about WCG Singapore (where they won $20k) and MLG Atlanta (where they split $6500 with the other two members of their 4-man team, and OGRE2 took another $1200 home in FFA championship money)… and reflections on Atlanta directly from the OGREs themselves. Go…

Back in November, we mentioned an article in the South Dakota State University Collegian in which a female student complained that Halo was sucking up time rightly spent with girlfriends. A couple of weeks later, we mentioned a rebuttal, by Lady Rziha. Yesterday, the Collegian posted yet ANOTHER followup, again from a woman, condemning not…

Over on Bungie.net, there’s word of an art contest being sponsored by Bungie Fans Online – it’s Bungie-related, so it’s not necessarily ONLY Halo, though I’d be surprised if the majority of submissions weren’t about Halo. Prizes are ‘some Bungie stuff’ (not sure what that means, but that’s what the note says), and submissions are…

Stuntmutt makes it clear in today’s One One Se7en that if you’re going to be punny, be sure you know your audience.

Seven new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today. Too late for lunchtime reading… unless you’re on the US west coast.

Hehe – Jim Shorts pointed out some photos showing a bunch of guys (presumably waiting to buy 360s last week) playing Halo 2 on the side of a Best Buy. Now THAT might make the time go faster!

Over in the UK, it looks like Halo 2 has been released as an ‘Xbox Classic’ (similar to the US ‘Platinum’ category?), and is selling for £16.99 (just under $30 US). That’s better than the US Amazon price of $33.95… though it wouldn’t pay to order from the UK, for a few reasons; it’s PAL,…

GameDaily has a My Turn column (written by Chance Thomas, a composer who’s worked on games like King Kong, X-Men, and Lord of the Rings), discussing how the videogame soundtrack is an underexploited market. Halo is held up as a shining example – go Marty!

UNSCDF has put up a legendary walkthrough of The Arbiter – it’s the fourth level they’ve posted. Check it out!

Word from Cybrfrk is that we’re getting short of movie reviewers for the MPRRS. He just added everyone in the queue, and pulled all those who weren’t actually submitting reviews… and the end result was a shortage of bodies. If you’re interested in participating, please fill out an application! (Remember, before you do, that the…