Month: September 2006
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Ark ‘N’ Sore.
GAH! I HATE it when I forget to post the day’s One One Se7en. No, it has nothing to do with wanting to bury these puns… really. No, really.(Louis Wu 00:58:44 UTC)
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Breaking into Bungie
Bungie receives a high volume of emails on the subject of jobs. More than anything, people want to know how to get a job at Bungie. Take a look at Bungie’s shady hiring practices and see if you’re up to leaving behind the concept of “HR violations.”
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Halo Writer at Austin Film Festival
Looks like Joe Staten will be participating as a panelist at the Austin Film Festival in mid-October – if you’re in the area, and have a few hundred bucks ($200 for students, $400 for a regular conference badge, $600 for producers), sign up now! Thanks, Finn.(Louis Wu 23:06:54 UTC)
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Halo Unyielding is Out
It’s finaly out after a lot of work and effort. Halo Unyelding is here!!! Make sure to visit the site at www.halounyielding.com and download this amazing and revolutionary Halo Video directed by our Friend Laird with the help of his amazing Team John Webster and Matt Patterson. What are you waiting for? Check this out…
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Halo Unyielding is Out
It’s finaly out after a lot of work and effort. Halo Unyelding is here!!! Make sure to visit the site at www.halounyielding.com and download this amazing and revolutionary Halo Video directed by our Friend Laird with the help of his amazing Team John Webster and Matt Patterson. What are you waiting for? Check this out…
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Halo Unyielding
Laird, of Sponsors vs Freeloaders, has spent a significant amount of time recently putting together Halo Unyielding, Part 1 – it does what very little other Halo machinima has done to date; it focuses on a space battle. Using HaloCE, and some great external effects, this one is full of exploding ships and starfield-filled carnage.…
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Terminal Announcements
Jordan117 discovered that the loudspeaker announcements on the multiplayer map Terminal range from the mundane, to the Easter-eggish. I think anyone who’s played the map knows that there are a variety of announcements… but nobody (that I know of) has gone to the trouble of transcribing them before. He didn’t have any way to record…
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Final Boss Does a Postmortem
Over at MLGPro.com, there’s an interview with Final Boss. They took a solid look at their loss to Carbon at MLG Orlando – I found the tone of their analysis to be an interesting counterpoint to the attitude Carbon took when they looked at the situation. It’s pretty clear why these guys have dominated so…
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HDR The Bungie Way
Eastbeast314 noticed that Dave Weller, a Game Developer Community Manager, was providing media from a whole lot of talks at last month’s Gamefest 2006 – one of those talks was part of the Graphics Track, and was called ‘HDR The Bungie Way’. It was given by Chris Tchou, who works for Bungie doing graphics for…
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HDR The Bungie Way
Eastbeast314 posted up links from Let’s Kill Dave to the PPT presentations at this year’s GDC, as offered by Microsoft. The Graphics Track (caution, direct link to large file!) includes a portion called “HDR The Bungie Way” about HDR lighting. The files are huge– about 500Mb, though, so be careful.
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Recon 54 Must Stop Them
The latest Community Spotlight at Bungie.net by KP is on Recon54, who is currently on an extended mission ordered by th’ greybeards o’ auld school Bungie fandom t’ observe noobs in their natural habitat, interactin’ with Microsoft’s “magical hummin’ box”. In addition, he drives th’ Spambulance and has a healthy fear o’ Shishka, which certainly…
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Letter To Bungie Reopened
Gravemind wrote up an extensively compendious piece on the Halo franchise, posted it on GeoCities, then linked it in the HBO Forum, with predictable results. When HBO front-paged it the next day, the site quickly exceeded its bandwidth quota. HBO had a mirror up by that time, with simplified HTML for quicker loading. I decided…
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Two More Tidbits For Marathon Fans
A new Marathon film (in Marathon recording and .mp4 formats) called Spectral Falls and a new map pack called Fabrecation are available at Marathon: Aleph One. Check them out!
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Halo: Portable Podcast Episode 4
34.6MB – 37:50 Mins (Link) Sometimes, you have to use better judgement when it comes to recording a podcast. This is one of those times when Funkmon and I didn’t use better judgement. Recording at 2am in the morning after a long day of work does not a good podcast make. But as you listen…
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Long Lasting Rampancy Bar
DoomBatINC created this image for a SomethingAwful Photoshop Phriday feature fusing food and videogames. Certainly, the “long lasting rampancy bar” enriched with “Strauss protein blend” must be how an ordinary cybernetic security guard was able to face down the Pfhor and two rampant AIs over three games without ever once sitting down to a real…
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Long Lasting Rampancy Bar
DoomBatINC created this image for a SomethingAwful Photoshop Phriday feature fusing food and videogames. Certainly, the “long lasting rampancy bar” enriched with “Strauss protein blend” must be how an ordinary cybernetic security guard was able to face down the Pfhor and two rampant AIs over three games without ever once sitting down to a real…
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Submit Stuff for Episode 81: Customs and Callins!
Wow, time flies! I guess it’s because we’ve been really busy at Podtacular improving the show, working on our new fall 06 season tournament, lining up interviews and guests, etc. Ok, focus, Foo Mo, focus. I got this great custom called totem pole. Everybody stands on eachother’s head for 90 minutes! It’s a blast! Hopefully…
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Bananas… and screaming.
Over on Bungie.net, there’s a new Community Spotlight – KP sat down with Recon #54, known to most Bungie.net forumgoers (because he’s a moderator there) and to some HBO forumgoers (because he delurks here sometimes). Go read the story of someone who’s been part of the Bungie community since there’s BEEN a Bungie community (and…
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Submit Stuff for Episode 81: Customs and Callins!
Wow, time flies! I guess it’s because we’ve been really busy at Podtacular improving the show, working on our new fall 06 season tournament, lining up interviews and guests, etc. Ok, focus, Foo Mo, focus. I got this great custom called totem pole. Everybody stands on eachother’s head for 90 minutes! It’s a blast! Hopefully…
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Community Spotlight: Recon Number 54
We took some time this week to speak with Recon Number 54, long-time Bungie fan and one of our Master Forum Ninjas. Read about how he first became involved with the community and what’s kept him coming back all these years.