Year: 2006
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Host With The Most.
Sometimes, you can look at the most recent One One Se7en and know exactly what Stuntmutt was doing when he came up with the concept. Today is one of those times.(Louis Wu 16:35:54 UTC)
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Oh, bloody brilliant, mate.
Hellhawk reminded me that there are still hundreds of dialogue snippets in the queue (I’d completely forgotten about them) – I’ve posted nearly 100 marine clips today, and will do my best to get through most of the rest soon. Some of these are fantastic – go browsing!(Louis Wu 14:29:51 UTC)
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Friday’s Fanfic
Only 10 new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today – probably because of the Fanfic contest going on at UNSCDF. Enjoy these!(Louis Wu 13:03:15 UTC)
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Where do I apply for the ‘Contract Jerk’ position?
This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge was against NeoGAF (as far as I can tell, GAF = “Gaming Age Forums”) – GhaleonEB mentioned it (and the Bungie loss) yesterday afternoon, but the Bungie writeup wasn’t posted until evening. Bungie brought in a ringer (I’m pretty sure there’s no ‘Hawt Chik’ position on Microsoft’s payroll), but even…
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Dead Man’s Hand – The Weekly Goodness
Dead Man’s Hand remains a hotbed of Halo discussion and speculation; new articles this week include a writeup of Dead Man’s Potluck (a night of gaming I’m really sorry I missed), a discussion on when playing Halo on XBL stops being fun and starts to be stressful, 22 Questions with Wheezin Geezers’ Overlord Sunburned Goose…
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What’s Next for Bungie?
What the heck? Dean Takahashi, who writes books about gaming as well as a column for the Mercury News, has put up a blog entry that discusses what might, or might not, be going on inside Bungie Studios. (He suggests that on top of Halo 3, there’s a team working on another game, PLUS a…
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Second Game In The Works At Bungie
San Jose Mercury News columnist Dean Takahashi, also author of books on the Xbox and Xbox 360, has a new column up saying that a small team of developers within Bungie Studios, led by Jason Jones and Chris Butcher, aren’t working on Halo 3. They’re working on something else: They are on a small project…
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Second Game In The Works At Bungie
San Jose Mercury News columnist Dean Takahashi, also author of books on the Xbox and Xbox 360, has a new column up saying that a small team of developers within Bungie Studios, led by Jason Jones and Chris Butcher, aren’t working on Halo 3. They’re working on something else: They are on a small project…
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Conference Comments Cause Cutscene Controversy
Gamasutra reports that Alexis Nolent, Editorial Story Design Director for Ubisoft, delivered remarks at the Austin Games Conference on the integration of stories into games. He seems to favor the Half-Life 2 brand of “scripted events” versus the more traditional, cinematic sort of Halo-style “cutscenes”: First, he saw a trend toward fewer cinematics, and more…
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Conference Comments Cause Cutscene Controversy
Gamasutra reports that Alexis Nolent, Editorial Story Design Director for Ubisoft, delivered remarks at the Austin Games Conference on the integration of stories into games. Nolent seems to favor the Half-Life 2 brand of “scripted events” versus the more traditional, cinematic sort of Halo-style “cutscenes”: First, he saw a trend toward fewer cinematics, and more…
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Humpday: NeoGAF
Bungie accepted a challenge from some Halo 2 fans over at the NeoGAF forums this week. Over the course of three very close games, both teams performed admirably but one came to rise above the other. Possibly as a result of chetz and sploitz.
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Halo Heads 3 – Wishlist
Paul Maestri points out that Halo Heads Episode 3 (his webcomic) is now online. Heh – I’ve felt the same way as his protagonist…(Louis Wu 22:15:05 UTC)
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Mute Radio Episode 3
Mute Radio (nee MLG PwnCast) has launched a totally new site design, and have released Episode 3, covering the new site, MLG Orlando, and more. Go grab a copy!(Louis Wu 13:38:51 UTC)
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What Bungie Artists do outside of Bungie
Vironex was doing some poking around at Bungie.net, and found a link to the personal website of Tom Doyle, a Bungie 3D artist. Most of what’s visible there is work he did for other games he worked on before Bungie hired him… but a few images look Halo-ish. The floor symbols and door shapes in…
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Tools and Icons
KP sat down with two new permanent hires – Josh Rogers, who’s been a contractor (which means part-time worker; no more than 9 months/year) for several years, and Stosh – who’s been a moderator at Bungie.net, but not paid until recently – about their current jobs, and how they got there. One almost gets the…
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HPC4L
BeNjA created a HaloPC tribute video, ‘Halo PC 4 Life’, or ‘HPC4L’ for short; it’s a twelve and a half minute long montage that includes gameplay from nearly 50 different players. It’s a labor of love from someone who finds Halo PC to be one of the best games out there. It’s also massive -…
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Bungie Spotlights Sort-Of New Hires
Josh Rodgers and “Stosh” recently joined Bungie officially after spending time involved in other capacities. KP drew the short straw and had to interrogate them about their deviant proclivities, super secrets, scrumptious sandwiches and the use of Mat Noguchi’s rage radiation as a source of warmth. Check it out.
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Bungie Spotlights Sort-Of New Hires
Josh Rodgers and “Stosh” recently joined Bungie officially after spending time involved in other capacities. KP drew the short straw and had to interrogate them about their deviant proclivities, super secrets, scrumptious sandwiches and the use of Mat Noguchi’s rage radiation as a source of warmth. Check it out.
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Spotlight: Josh ‘n’ Stosh
Bungie recently hired another member straight out of the community in the shape of Stosh. We also hired someone striaght out of our own office, Josh Rodgers. How does that work? What does Stosh do? Why is Shishka such a jerk? Read on for answers to these pressing questions and more.
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xXx is their water bottle.
Great interview with Carbon, discussing their win over Final Boss in Orlando, up over at MLGPro.com. They’re a little cocky… but hey, they just came off a tremendous win, they can be forgiven. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 21:21:02 UTC)