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===HBO Customs Game Night=== | |||
In January 2010, a few of the forum regulars at HBO began hosting custom game nights for the website's frequent users. The games generally take place on Friday Nights at 9:30 pm EDT, though some scheduling issues with the host, Hyokin, have led to some later nights. Some noteable players are Stephen Loftus, author of numerous informative articles regarding the Halo universe, and Peter Cooper, the man behind Operation Chastity. Site founder Louis Wu has yet to participate, due to scheduling conflicts. | |||
==HBO Trivia== | ==HBO Trivia== | ||
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Often abbreviated as HBO, halo.bungie.org is, arguably, the most popular and famous fansite for the Halo series. Its webmaster is Claude Errera (posting under the handle "Louis Wu"). It currently is under the url of nikon.bungie.org.
Popular HBO Features
Movies Catalog
Halo.Bungie.Org's main maintainer, "Louis Wu", receives hundreds of requests a week to put up videos on the HBO website by Halo fans. Not all are accepted, however it is still a struggle because of limited bandwidth and the fact that Mythica.org shut down in early 2008. The actual Movies Catalog hasn't been updated at all since the movie "Hunter in AotCR Pit" (2004), but Louis says it will be updated. For now you can look for new updated movies in the News section.
Halo Story Page
HBO also features a Halo Story Page section dedicated to all aspects of the Halo story, from backstories, to reference articles, speculation and game transcripts. However, the most notable feature of the Halo Story Page is the Halo Story Timeline, the most detailed and complex timeline of the Halo series on the internet.
Character Scale
Stephen Loftus created a site that allowed users to compare size ratios of different characters from Halo 1 and Halo 2. At the site you can choose a character from each list, hit 'Compare' and characters are shown to scale. The measure in the background denotes feet. (The Master Chief, for example, is exactly 7ft tall.)
See Also
HBO Customs Game Night
In January 2010, a few of the forum regulars at HBO began hosting custom game nights for the website's frequent users. The games generally take place on Friday Nights at 9:30 pm EDT, though some scheduling issues with the host, Hyokin, have led to some later nights. Some noteable players are Stephen Loftus, author of numerous informative articles regarding the Halo universe, and Peter Cooper, the man behind Operation Chastity. Site founder Louis Wu has yet to participate, due to scheduling conflicts.
HBO Trivia
- Claude Errera, the HBO webmaster, uses the name of the main character in Ringworld, Louis Wu, when posting. Ringworld is a classic science-fiction novel by Larry Niven which inspired various elements of Halo, not least the idea of setting the game on a ring-shaped superstructure.
- Bungie named a character after Errera: Corporal C. Errera.
- The website was mentioned in the credits of Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo 3: ODST.
- During October 2008, HBO was cracked twice by an entity calling itself "TheDefaced". Both attacks, the first on October 25th[1] and the second on October 27th[2], replaced the main page with an image of a large face which linked to "TheDefaced"'s website.
Sources
- ^ The front page was hacked? (forums.bungie.org)
- ^ Front page is hacked again (forums.bungie.org)
