Category: HBO

Podtacular has released Episode 20, with custom gametypes and call-ins from fans. Go listen!

There’s a slightly unusual piece of dialogue from Cortana on Halo’s Truth & Reconciliation level; it comes at the end of the hangar bay (after the pair of Hunters). It has to be really quiet to hear it; it is in our transcript of the level, but jman571 just sent us an audio recording of…

While we’re doing site updates… I’d like to thank weephun, who donated the I Love Bees Commemorative DVD for the ‘Blow Me Away’ Charity Auction, for contacting the 4orty 2wo team that put the campaign together – he’s gotten them to agree to sign this DVD! If you win this item, you’ll not only be…

At the moment, we have a total of 24 entries for our 343 Guilt O’ Lantern Pumpkin Carving Contest. (A few are simply spectacular – but there’s room for competition.) The deadline is still a day and a half away, so there’s plenty of time to get your entry in… but you don’t want to…

In early October, Elnea released ‘Blow Boys Away’, a girl-gamer anthem – er, parody. A couple of weeks later, QuackJAG created a HaloCE-based video that brought that song to life, visually. Now, ANOTHER video version has been released; Amanda and Sevenar, of Silver Stars/Purple Hearts, have whipped up a pretty slick Sims2/Halo2 meld that uses…

The Tied the Leader blog has recently been less about general Halo musings, and more about clan-related activities (or coverage of the Doom movie, which might be interesting to the Halo fan from an instructive “here’s what not to do” perspective), but there are still some entries of interest to the general Halo public. I…

Last night saw the release of the Weekly Update over at Bungie.net – Frankie dropped heavy-handed (and almost certainly misleading) clues about the pimpin’ nature of their next project, discussed the rediculous overload on Noguchi’s desk, and provided some encouraging words about the Halo 2 Soundtrack, Volume 2. There’s also info on a pair of…

Bunch of new content over at MLGPro.com – you can find the second half of Dyslexia’s MLG LA writeup (great read), an interview with Team3D (great podium shot), and some more video on demand from MLG LA. Thanks, 3Suns.

We got word that DropShock, a new Halo podcast, just released episode 3. In their words, it has an M rating. (This means it’s loaded with sexual humor and ethnic jokes.) You might need to follow the Feedburner RSS feed to actually download the shows.

FI3ND and OGRE1 teamed up to bring you a ‘noob guide’ to up-close strategies – worth reading, no matter what your level! Check it out.

Hehe – there are three new commercial spots, running Sunday and Monday on the Sci-Fi Channel, for Stubbs the Zombie… but if you don’t want to wait, they’ve been put up in the Stubbs the Zombie website Gallery. Funny stuff!

Wow. The deadline for entries to our 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest is coming up fast (just 3 and a half days left)… and we’ve got two brand-new prizes to toss on the pile! Both Steve Downes, voice of the Master Chief, and Tim Dadabo, voice of 343 Guilty Spark, have agreed to contribute the…

Over at Wideloadgames.org, the second half of the Glenda Adams interview has been posted. (We mentioned part 1 last week.) Lots of good technical info on why some of the choices that got made went the way they did; I find it amusing that PC retailers are STILL unwilling to go with a DVD-only SKU,…

Stuntmutt continues to obsess about Spartan 458 in today’s One One Se7en. I wanted to high-five Cortana at the end of this one.

Wow. I looked on Wednesday, and there were only 3 stories in the Fan Fiction queue. This morning… there were 17. Busy Thursday, I guess! Go read.

The official film selections for the 2005 Machinima Film Festival were posted yesterday – and nominations for the awards themselves went up on Wednesday. There are a LOT of familiar names in there… on both lists. Go check ’em out! The Awards Ceremony will be held in Astoria, NY on November 12 – good luck…

Halo Babies has put up a Halloween-themed strip today… I’m LOVING it. Go read!

A couple of bits of site news… the forum thread started yesterday, discussing the merits of keeping the original voice actors for many of the Halo roles, has garnered quite a bit of attention (including some from a couple of the voice actors themselves); the thread is almost 200 posts long, and a large percentage…

Halo Podcast Morning, I guess – Halo Nation has posted their newest ‘cast, called ‘HALO-ween Special’. Go listen!

Podtacular Ep 19 went live yesterday – it covers Waterworks. Apologies to Foo Mo Jive, who sent mail early, but got buried in the auction work. Go listen!