Month: September 2006
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Friday’s Fanfic
Sixteen new stories in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!(Louis Wu 14:40:33 UTC)
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The World’s Most Dangerous Gamers
A few days ago, vlad3163 put up a note on our forum that I forgot to mention; the October issue of Electronic Games Monthly contains a feature they call ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Gamers’ – and 3 of the 5 collectible cards they have are Halo-related! Congrats to ‘The Damsel’ aka Amber Dalton aka Athena…
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Egg DB online at HIH
Over at High Impact Halo, Ducain posted a notice about a new Halo 2 Easter Egg Database; it’s a work in progress, and right now contains (mixed in among the real easter eggs) a bunch of stuff that probably shouldn’t be considered ‘eggs’, per se… but it’s a fantastic start, and it’ll be polished up…
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Windows Physics Editor For Marathon Gets Update
Version 0.5 of PhysicsEditorOne for Windows by HogePiyo is out, in English and Japanese. The program edits Marathon physics models, allowing mapmakers to change player physics, monster sequences, sounds and weapons. Thanks for the heads-up to Marathon Open Source.
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Does The Halo Universe Have Global Warming?
Jordan117 has put up a nice bit of analysis in the HBO forum alleging that various artistic and design choices in Halo 2, specifically those made in the Outskirts and Metropolis levels, indicate that Bungie is postulating increasing global warming in Earth’s future. While probably not essential to the plot, if it’s true it does…
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‘We Wanted Somebody Who Was A Real Halo Fan’
Quint at Ain’t It Cool News has put up part three of five in his interview with Halo movie producer Peter “Freakin” Jackson. Unlike just about everybody at Bungie, Jackson actually likes to talk and talk about Halo, so there’s loads of content in here. It is probably too far out from the film’s expected…
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The Depth of the Details
Jordan117 half-jokingly asked Bungie to acknowledge this… they might, or they might not, but it’s a pretty interesting read, so I’m putting it here, because I think more people should see it. He’s got some interesting theories about Earth-related backstory – stuff that hasn’t actually been discussed, but which (if you check out his meticulously…
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I hate it when they practice.
Bungie’s version of the Halo Humpday Challenge is now up – and surprisingly, it matches that of the Video Game Refugees pretty closely. (I think I just saw Miss Piggy float past my window.) Good postmortem, overall – if the rest of the Bungie guys actually READ this, they might learn enough strategy to beat…
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Humpday: Video Gaming Refugees
Bungie once again accepted a challenge from a senior citizens center this Wednesday and found ourselves in a familiar position: Eye-level with our ankles. Read on for excruciating details of our defeat. Next week, an orphanage.
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Microsoft Zune released
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/14/microsoft-launches-the-zune/”As expected, Microsoft is busting out the Zune today, and we’ve got the rundown. Not …
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Microsoft Zune released
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/14/microsoft-launches-the-zune/”As expected, Microsoft is busting out the Zune today, and we’ve got the rundown. Not …
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Bungie vs VGR – Ouch.
Bungie extends its losing streak in the Halo Humpday Challenges to three – this week, it played the Video Gaming Refugees, another bunch of old guys. Once again, old and crafty proves better than young and fast. Or young and confused. Whatever. VGR swept, 3-0 (plus the warmup game). Nice writeup, overall, from Yaters. The…
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RT: Madden and Calgary Fan Event
In celebration of the start of the NFL season, we thought everybody might enjoy checking out the commercials we recently made for Madden ’07. (They’re similar to the NCAA ones but they can accept endorsments.) I read recently that most people…
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RT: Disgusting, in C Minor
It’s Thursday, which means there’s still three days to go before Jason’s shower day. He’s starting to smell like old bandaids, and I’m stuck sharing a room with him in Santa Monica. He swears he’s wearing a deodorant called “Au Naturale” but I…
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Pop Goes The Sniper
Paul Maestri let us know that Halo Heads 6 has been posted… it looks at online modding. And I must say… that’s a mod I’d actually LIKE to see!(Louis Wu 12:43:19 UTC)
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Jackson Talks Halo
Over at Ain’t it Cool News, Quint has scored an interview with Peter Jackson – and today’s installment focuses on Halo. Jackson is excited about Blomkamp, Jackson is excited about the script, Jackson is excited about the effects that are under construction. He’s pretty garrulous about it all… it’s a great read! Thanks to Mike…
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Halo: Portable is back
Mintz writes to point out that Halo: Portable is back on the update kick – new stuff includes imSuck’s HMV Hell, the (late) fourth podcast, xbryboyremix’s “Corrupt” vid, and Walshy’s Montage. What are you waiting for? Go fill your iPod/PSP/whatever.(Louis Wu 12:05:41 UTC)
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Get A Job At Bungie
KP’s latest piece at Bungie.net is for all the fans who wish they could work at Bungie like he does. It’s probably fair to say that Bungie has hired more than its share of its own fans over the years, so while it’s certainly a long shot, it isn’t impossible, if you’ve got education, determination,…
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Halo No-Shot
A long time ago, Mike Miller released a movie showing a shot-free clearing of the top of the gravity lift in Truth & Reconciliation, on Legendary. I was suitably impressed… but remember, it’s just one room. Took him 4 minutes. Self Induced has now completed a no-shot run… on the entire level of Halo. No…
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That’s just the way it is.
Over at Bungie.net, there’s a new article discussing breaking into the industry at large, and Bungie Studios in specific. (‘Breaking in’ as in ‘getting a job’, not as in ‘stealing all their cool HD monitors’.) There was a lot of stuff about education and experience and such, but what I got out of this was…