Category: HBO

Stuntmutt found some news about a series of CI-boys figures based on Xbox game characters. He hunted around until he found this – are those cute, or what?

JoeIce dropped by our forum yesterday with a pelican model he’d adapted from a Warhammer 40K piece. Today, he came back – with another dozen images, showing off the Pelican, a Master Chief, and an MC on a Ghost. That Ghost ROCKS!

Today’s One One Se7en takes a subtle shot at a certain type of Xbox Live player. The thing is… if this is you, you probably won’t get it.

Guess I went too long this time between Fan Fiction updates – there are 24 stories and poems to read today. Get cracking!

Gah. I totally spaced on putting this up earlier this week. insidi0us continues his work on speedruns (yeah, I know, we should be leaving this stuff to High Speed Halo… but insidi0us sends it here, and it’s just so amazing!) – his latest target is Two Betrayals. The current run is only on Normal difficulty……

Halo Babies has put up a new strip today… it, too, sends birthday wishes to Halo 2. It also points out one of the hazards of the Spartan uniform…

We got word from Dennis Powers that there’s been a resurgence in HaloCE interest in the past month – more than 47 different maps have been released since October 1 (bringing the total available for download at Halo Maps to 568). Maps are getting more sophisticated since the release of the complete Halo tag set…

Day by Day followed up yesterday’s Halo-related cartoon with another Halo-related cartoon (here’s the direct link, again) – this one’s even funnier if you’ve ever run across that marine in Delta Halo… thanks again, SteelGaribaldi.

Podcast updates we’ve been lax on… Podtacular released episode 24 on Monday, and episode 25 yesterday. Gamertag Radio released episode 29 Wednesday (happy birthday, Halo 2!). 2old2type released episode 12 yesterday. MLG PwnCast released episode 3 last night. Go listen! Update: The MLG PwnCast Ep III was accidentally switched for Ep II – it’s now…

Broken Console Productions have released Episode 10 of The Squadron – once again, the humans escape from the jaws of certain death. Poor Durge… this one is WMP9-only, for the time being. Go grab a copy.

XerxdeeJ has sent along another weekly update for Tied the Leader – and there’s some great reading in there. There’s a piece looking at some of the characters in movie history where the voice actor, the person who arguably made the role memorable, was not the person who physically acted the part. (Yes, this is…

Gavin Free, better known as Gavino over at Red vs Blue, was the proud winner of Lorraine McLees’ Fight the Flood sketch in the recent Blow Me Away charity auction. The first round of shipments went out a couple of days ago (Bungie, specifically Jeff Todd, Alta’s assistant, was ASTOUNDINGLY fast in the packing/shipping of…

Matchbox 360 is running a double-team competition next Friday, November 18, at 7 pm GMT. The winners will get copies of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos theory and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Summit Strike (one copy each, total). Swing by if you’d like to participate! Update: though it doesn’t actually mention it in the rules,…

1UP.com has posted a Halo 2 retrospective, looking back at the history of the game, in honor of its one-year anniversary. Thanks, Tomas.

Dustin Kaufman pointed out that last month, Hamilton Camp, the voice of the Prophet of Mercy in Halo 2, passed away from a heart attack. It’s unclear at this point whether the voice talent from the games will be reused where appropriate in the Halo movie (though I’d suggest that it would be a good…

The Codex Series has gotten a lot of attention this year – and rightly so; it’s a pretty impressive machinima series from a lot of different perspectives. Recently, the entire crew headed out to LA to film a piece for mtvU’s Gamer’s Ball – they’ve written up the entire experience (with pictures) on their website.…

SteelGaribaldi points out that Halo is mentioned in the political comic Day By Day. I(If you’re reading this later than November 10, you can see the cartoon itself here; the site doesn’t allow for full-page linking based on URL.)

Over at HaloDev, there’s another massive update about Prometheus, the all-in-one Halo editor being developed. There’s far too much to describe in this news post – go read, and see where they are! Thanks, Nick.

Chairleg Productions has posted a new movie – it’s called ‘Waiting in Line’, and it’s available in WMP9 and MP4 formats (the latter for PSP). If you grab the PSP version, be sure to save it under “/MP_ROOT/100ANV01”. This vid highlights the quintessentially British queueing system, as Spartans wait for their Xbox360s – funny! Go…

In honor of the one-year anniversary of the release of Halo 2, there’s a huge retrospective posted at Bungie.net. Bungie insiders, press representatives, and some loser fansite maintainer reminisce about the past year, and how Halo 2 has changed it. Great pics (Alta is hot in a formal evening dress), great memories. Go read. And…