Month: August 2010
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XBL Price Changing as of November 1st
Unfortunately Major Nelson has just announced a new pricing scheme for Xbox Live. You can see the new priceing below. As bad as this is, I’m going to be super optimistic and suggest that this may allow massive improvements to … Continue reading →
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8 years of THX. Ah Bummer. Bungie.net locked our accounts.
The Hushed Casket was founded on B.net on 8/28/2002. Them’s Halo 1 days people! And we’re only a few days away from our EIGHTH year of existence. Wow. 8+ years of HALO. The memories of 4-boxen lanning during college multiple nights a week…when we…
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8 years of THX. Ah Bummer. Bungie.net locked our accounts.
The Hushed Casket was founded on B.net on 8/28/2002. Them’s Halo 1 days people! And we’re only a few days away from our EIGHTH year of existence. Wow. 8+ years of HALO. The memories of 4-boxen lanning during college multiple nights a week…when we…
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Why Buying Used Games Isn’t Cheating
Nothing to do with Bungie directly, but I did write a couple of blog posts about the recent discussion on the interwebz in general (and at Penny Arcade in specific) about the used game market, spurred by comments made by THQ’s Cory Ledesma earlier this…
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Firefight gameplay. Airstrikes will be in Reach. Assault on The Cage.
The popular gamemode from ODST will be in Reach. I’m looking for to it. This video is a Forge map called “The Cage” with the assault gametype. Another Firefight video in a new map.
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Firefight gameplay. Airstrikes will be in Reach. Assault on The Cage.
The popular gamemode from ODST will be in Reach. I’m looking for to it. This video is a Forge map called “The Cage” with the assault gametype. Another Firefight video in a new map.
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Community Jam Night
After the Jam Night we had on Thursday, we might as well try to get a few more in before school starts up! I’m looking at Friday the 27th at 7 Pacific, and we can keep it going for about … Continue reading →
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More Halo: Reach multiplayer videos. Pinnacle. Zealot.
The famous Halo 2 map known as Ascension returns in Halo: Reach as “Pinnacle”. Again this is another near exact remake of a classic map. “Zealot” is a map with characteristics resembling Midship. However, this map isn’t intended to be a remake of Mi…
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Remember Reach marketing. Halo Reach live action trailer "Patrol"
A marketing website for Halo Reach has gone live at http://rememberreach.com. The follow video was posted and is now offline, but available on YouTube.
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More Halo: Reach multiplayer videos. Pinnacle. Zealot.
The famous Halo 2 map known as Ascension returns in Halo: Reach as “Pinnacle”. Again this is another near exact remake of a classic map. “Zealot” is a map with characteristics resembling Midship. However, this map isn’t intended to be a remake of Mi…
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Remember Reach marketing. Halo Reach live action trailer “Patrol”
A marketing website for Halo Reach has gone live at http://rememberreach.com. The follow video was posted and is now offline, but available on YouTube.
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Reach multiplayer footage. Map: Reflection. Brings back memories.
This map is called Reflection. Just a few seconds into the video, you’ll notice an old Halo 2 friend. This map is a remake of Ivory Tower and it is gloriously lit. It’s a gorgeous-looking map and the geometry closely relects that of Ivory Tower. A…
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Reach multiplayer footage. Map: Reflection. Brings back memories.
This map is called Reflection. Just a few seconds into the video, you’ll notice an old Halo 2 friend. This map is a remake of Ivory Tower and it is gloriously lit. It’s a gorgeous-looking map and the geometry closely relects that of Ivory Tower. A…
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Seven Questions With Bungie’s Max Dyckhoff
Bungie AI programmer Max Dyckhoff last month mentioned a long-standing bug in Halo’s driving code he’d found and eliminated. He was later kind enough to go into a bit more detail about how Halo’s AI figures out how to handle driving and riding in vehi…
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Podtacular 233: Forge World and Reach Campaign Impressions
Former community leaders JVB and CapnKrunk join the show to talk about the listener’s reaction to Forge World, Forge 2.0 and the Reach Campaign Trailer. Continue reading →
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Around The Ring Episode 19 – Starcraft II
Download Well a little over a decade later, this show has finally come out! Also Starcraft II showed up. Sorry for the horrible delay, but as usual blame Dust Storm. However the wait was worth it, as we have a … Continue reading →