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Free Halo stuff at Game Revolution
Stuntmutt pointed out a nice little contest over at Game Revolution - Enter, you've got a chance to win some cool Halo schwag. (Louis Wu 20:52:41 UTC) (permalink)
Goodbye, HBO-Coerce
A quick reminder - HBO Coerce is going offline at midnight EDT tonight. (That's about 7 hours from now, for folks who can't do the math.) Go play some last minute Halo CE! (Louis Wu 20:49:11 UTC) (permalink)
New Flash at Newgrounds
Biography of Master Chief, Part 1, at Newgrounds. Wronchi takes liberties. Thanks, Blade. (Louis Wu 20:37:56 UTC) (permalink)
Frightful.
Stuntmutt, too, has gotten into the spirit, with a special holiday One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 17:51:56 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 2 in Entertainment Weekly
Yesterday, Sep7imus mentioned that the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly contained an article about Halo 2. He couldn't scan it, though. Today, Finchmeister found an online link for the same article - no scans necessary. (Louis Wu 17:45:43 UTC) (permalink)
New Halo 2 Action Mini-Figures
ONI_operative_343 found a new Halo 2 action figure mini-pack (it doesn't seem to be advertised on Joyride's site). You can see it (and buy it) at DieCastExpress.com. (Louis Wu 17:43:22 UTC) (permalink)
Halloween Comic
Kevin Ryan made a Halo 2 Halloween comic last winter - Red Leader suggested now is a good time to remind people. You can find it at Black Arts Studios. (Louis Wu 17:41:04 UTC) (permalink)
Spike TV's Ultimate Halo 2 Gamer
Alex Barnes noticed a commercial on Spike TV for a show called 'Halo 2 Ultimate Gamer'. (We posted the casting notice for this a couple of weeks ago.) If you want to watch - check out showtimes. (Coming up this Thursday and Saturday.) (Louis Wu 17:38:58 UTC) (permalink)
Bus Shelter Posters
mecka wrote to say that he works for a company that is putting up large Halo 2 posters in public transport shelters across Melbourne, Australia - and he snapped a pic (164K) of one of these babies before pasting it up. It's about 1.8 m (6 feet) tall. Pretty! (Louis Wu 17:36:18 UTC) (permalink)
Dutch Gaming Awards
There's a Dutch site that's hosting some sort of game awards, and Halo 2 is up for 'New Hit Award'. The whole site is in Dutch, and I don't really know what happens with the winners, but wouter van der fluit is pretty insistent that we post this. If you're Dutch, and can translate/give us more info... do me a favor, and don't. I'm willing to post links to non-english sites here and there... but for the most part, the vast majority of our readers can't access this info, and it's better posted on a country-specific website. Thanks! (Louis Wu 16:28:24 UTC) (permalink)
Celebrities playing Halo 2 - for some people
Sean Kelly pointed out a new clip on the MTV website promoting this week's Making of Halo 2 video (showtimes are here). Once again, it's XP/IE only. Some websites suck. (Louis Wu 16:21:04 UTC) (permalink)
The Australian Spin
The Melbourne (Australia) Herald Sun had a short article on Pete Parsons, the 'man behind Halo 2' (that's a direct quote) and a previous Melbourne resident. There's a followup next week. Pooston sent us a digital photo of the article (229K). (Louis Wu 16:15:30 UTC) (permalink)
ILB Training - now open to more
A few days ago we mentioned a page on the I Love Bees website that discussed a closed invite to a 'training session' in 4 large cities - as of last night, that invite has been opened to several hundred people per city. Go visit the page, and if you're in the area, follow the instructions and get yourself included! Thanks to Major Hellion Youngblood and weephun for sending word. (Louis Wu 15:54:31 UTC) (permalink)
Heretic, Hero
Mostly working on pumpkin stuff today (the number of entries nearly doubled overnight), but there's other Halo news. In an attempt to staunch the flood of emails about the new Official Halo Soundtrack clip over at nilerogers.com, I'll post that now. It's called 'Heretic, Hero', and the snippet is 1.1 mb (1:10 long). As always, preferred listening method should be the Listening Station at the website. There are now 11 clips to listen to. The first heads-up came last night, from Hunt3r. (Louis Wu 15:29:59 UTC) (permalink)
Think before you write twice
To all the people who send mail to us: READ THIS. A week ago, Count Zero posted a note stating that he was going to stop reading and answering mail until after Halo 2's release, to avoid spoilers. The rest of the crew has pretty much decided the same thing. Since that point, HBO has been maintained, in its entirety, by ONE PERSON - me. I've been doing my best to answer all mail that needs answering, add all news that needs adding, update all sections that need updating... but I'm human. I miss things. Sometimes I decide that things aren't important enough to add, and I forget to send mail explaining that. PLEASE - do NOT send news to multiple addresses here if you don't get a response - they all go to me right now. Hopefully that will change again in a week or two, but for now... please, be patient, and understand that I'm pretty close to the limit of what I can realistically do when it comes to maintaining this website. Mail telling me you're angry about something not being updated will NOT be handled gracefully - for that I apologize now. You can avoid the nasty mail by NOT COMPLAINING. Thanks. (Louis Wu 13:58:58 UTC) (permalink)
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