Category: HBO

Speaking of online stats… I received a very nice box from the good folks at CarnageStats yesterday – it was full of shirts! It doesn’t seem like they’re for sale yet over at their site – but you can be sure we’ll be giving some of these bad boys away in our next contest. w00t!

Ed Chipman, aka DevilsKnight666, has put together PHP Stats – a php-based stats displayer that takes output from QuerySpree and converts it into a web-based form. Give it a look!

This week’s Halo Babies strip looks at the ever-tightening field of Halo montages – what’s a guy gotta do to get noticed? (Things might be a bit slow; they’re having some server issues. Be patient… they’ll work it out.)

Nine new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today. They’re keeping busy…

Last night, Bungie posted a writeup of this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge, in which they took on the Seasoned Gamers… and lost. It was a good loss, though – they enjoyed themselves. (agdTinMan pointed out a couple of typos in Frankie’s writeup… but it sounds like he’s jealous or something, so you might wanna take…

This was supposed to be up days ago – but what with one thing and another, I’m behind. All of the prizes for the 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest have been sent to the winners – including the voicemail messages recorded by Tim ‘GuiltySpark’ Dadabo and Steve ‘MasterChief’ Downes. Michael Coffing sent us mp3s of…

You may or may not be able to read this. For some, there’s no problem at all. For others, the site is utterly and completely down. For most of us in the middle, it’s more sporadic than that (though for some reason, the front page seems to be most affected). If you can read this,…

1Up has a huge article on Dead or Alive 4, and the inclusion of a Halo Spartan. (Her name is Nicole, for the record. They think of her as a person, not a suit of armor.) It’s a great read – and there are three new Halo-specific screenshots. Check it out! (Thanks to 3Suns for…

Back in April, 2002, NFL246 sent along some pictures taken in the Control Room on Two Betrayals; there are some decent (but not perfect) images of the huge Marathon logo created by the layout of the room. Yesterday, insidi0us sent along a new shot (104k); we don’t really do Trick stuff any more, but this…

Benjamin Brewster has taken a hard look at the anti-aliasing upscaling feature of the Xbox360, in theoretical terms (he’s going on published reports, because he doesn’t have a 360 yet) – but he’s worried that the way in which Bungie has chosen to implement 720p support will lead to more image degradation than simply allowing…

A billion years ago (well, summer of 2004) High Impact Halo ran a contest to see who could get to the top of the beam towers on the level Halo with the most s7yle. The prizes for that contest took a little while (in the sense that dinosaurs ruled the earth for a little while)…

XerxdeeJ pointed out a new update on his Tied the Leader blog – a look back at the development of Halo 2 (and Halo before it) as community builders. Nice stuff!

The South Dakota State University Collegian has posted an Op-Ed piece written by HBO forumgoer Lady Rziha, addressing the complaints in the piece we mentioned a couple of weeks ago – another female perspective on the Halo-as-a-timesink phenomenon. Sometimes joining ’em (and beating ’em) is more fun than beating ’em.

Crossfire submitted Hell Quarters: Jonathan Quail to the MPRRS a couple of days ago – the reviewers loved it. (This version uses subtitles, because of a technical glitch during the creation – he’s hoping to submit a new version with voice acting once the problem is solved, and if he does, we’ll simply swap it…

One One Se7en episode 400 comes out today – and Stuntmutt burns through more than 2 months of material for this punchline. You better like it! (Congrats, Stunt, on 400 episodes!)

Foo Mo Jive writes to let us know that Podtacular 28 is out – tips and tactics for Headlong are the focus, but there’s plenty more. (They were recently written up in Tips and Tricks magazine, and scans can be found on their website.) Go look!

Seven new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!

Bill writes to let us know that DropShock episode 5 has been released. We’ve warned you before – we’ll do it again; this podcast definitely needs an MPAA warning. An hour and 12 minutes, 33 mb. Go listen.

Captain Spark says he’s done collecting Halo 2 dialogue – he’s released another 14 snippets that you can grab from his website, or from our Dialogue Databank, but at this point, he’s decided that the returns no longer justify the work. We’re gonna miss the submissions – go see what he brought you this time!

CSports.net sent us a collection of links to Halo articles they’ve published recently – there’s Present and Future Marine Weaponry, which compares the weaponry in Halo to the weaponry used by today’s US Marines, a Halo: Combat Evolved review, which reviews the original version of the game, and a study of the Halo: Race Clans…