Year: 2006
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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…
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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…