Year: 2006
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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.
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Colors
Crossfade, from QsKGlobal.Com, put together ‘Colors’, a vid that tells the story of a lone soldier who must leave his family and friends to go to war. The MPRRS liked the cinematic effects, and the editing in general. Check it out! 32 mb for the WMP9 version, 31.3 mb for the QuickTime version.(Louis Wu 19:29:11…
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Halo 2 dress up doll
I know you have all been waiting for this moment with intense anticipation. Refreshing the page every 10 seconds. Skipping lunch. Well the wait is over: the Master Chief dress up doll is LIVE! Now you can dress up the chief as a ninja, a tennis player or even a fairy! WOW! I can’t wait…
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Halo 2 dress up doll
I know you have all been waiting for this moment with intense anticipation. Refreshing the page every 10 seconds. Skipping lunch. Well the wait is over: the Master Chief dress up doll is LIVE! Now you can dress up the chief as a ninja, a tennis player or even a fairy! WOW! I can’t wait…
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Showdown
xbryboyremix submitted ‘Showdown’ to the MPRRS – it’s a samurai movie. A lone samurai that confronts the enemy in a showdown for honor. Nice atmosphere, great camera angles, short, stays on point. Fun film! Grab it in WMP9 format (15.2 mb) or QuickTime format (15.4 mb).(Louis Wu 15:53:14 UTC)
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Happy Birthday, CapnKrunk!
CapnKrunk, our webmaster, just turned a year older today! The capn is the guy that created this web site and continues to improve it as time goes on. Let’s join in and wish him a happy birthday. Party at the forums! BYOBR!
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Happy Birthday, CapnKrunk!
CapnKrunk, our webmaster, just turned a year older today! The capn is the guy that created this web site and continues to improve it as time goes on. Let’s join in and wish him a happy birthday. Party at the forums! BYOBR!
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Podtacular Ep 80
Foo Mo Jive points out that Podtacular Episode 80 is out (yeah, we were late on 79, but hey, it’s nice to catch up) – it’s a tip show, focusing on Lockout, and there’s an interview with the creators of the Codex machinima series. A bit over an hour, 57 mb. Get to downloading!(Louis Wu…
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A Discussion of Halo
A fan calling himself Gravemind has written a massive (45,000 words) look at Halo and Halo 2, with an eye towards making Halo 3 a better game. Anyone interested in looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the first two Halo games, and how they might be optimized going into the third, could probably find…