Month: August 2008
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Bungie Weekly Update: From the Mouths of Babes
The Bungie Weekly Update is up (and has been since last night). A bit of info on PAX, and a bunch of tidbits from various people at the studio, giving some tasty yet cryptic hints as to what they’re working on. Go read!(mnemesis 16:31:05 UTC)
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Double D Vision
I don’t know if you’ve played Soul Calibur IV yet, or if maybe you’ve seen the latest Achievement Hunter walkthrough, but let’s just say that there are assets in the game that are a little…ridiculous. dggeoff
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Is Christmas coming Early this Year?
I know I’m 3 days late but I finally noticed the epic win sauce that recently ‘leaked’ on to the interwebz!http://www.bungie.net/News/Blog.aspx?mode=news#cid15149
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Need for Speed Race Weekend is on!
Hey guys, I know there is a lot of negativity towards “beat a developer” type achievements, but here is your opportunity to get exactly one of those this weekend. The “EA Moderator” achievement in Need For Speed Prostreet is up for grabs this weekend. I just got word from one of my EA contacts that…
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Math-tastrophy
Today’s comic comes in response to the recent announcement regarding the future of Geometry Wars as a franchise. I won’t link it here, because then you’d read the link, and the comic would be kind of spoiled for you – and that’s not fair to you dammit. Also, Luke whipped up a fancy wallpaper for…
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Need for Speed: Undercover Plot Exposed
I recently had the honor of traveling to that big chunk of country north of the U.S.A. called Canada to check out EA Black Box’s new Need for Speed title coming out later this year. Need for Speed: Undercover will be hitting next-gen systems with some improvements that gamers have been clamoring for, but I’m…
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Oh, What a Wonderful Dev Day
So today we have two neat things for you guys. Would you like to know what they are? That’s handy, because I was just about to tell you. 1. The Blog We’ve updated our home page yet again (when haven’t we, that’s the real question) to add a new feature: The Blog. This is a…
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Scorpion's Sting Walkthrough
Happy Friday Everyone, I’ve been looking around the internet lately (as I’m prone to do), and there seems to be a lot of confusion over the “Scorpion’s Sting” Achievement in Soul Calibur IV. Well not any more. I went ahead and threw this little walkthrough together to show you just how easy it actually is…
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New TeamTimeout.com!
We have a brand new look for TeamTimeout.com! vB Forums! Webcam! Chatbox! Arcade! Sig Store! Much More! Come to the new TeamTimeout.com! Link
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Master Chief meets Bollywood?
Crispy Gamer’s James Fudge pointed us to this news bit about a Bollywood movie that apparently revolves around a fictional designer of Halo 3. As CG says, the trailer mentioned in the article has no Halo content at all… so we’ll have to take their word for it. (A Google search turns up a bunch…
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Technical Lighting paper from SIGGRAPH 2008
Earlier this week, Bungie’s Hao Chen was at SIGGRAPH, the technical computer graphics conference, as an instructor in the ‘Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games’ class. ATI has posted the proceedings of the conference course notes for his work, ‘Lighting and Material of Halo 3’, on their Technical Publications page. (It’s currently…
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With If you could put Blood Gulch in a Canyon
Hawty McBloggy has posted What If, Halo Style: Round 3 over on her site. There are results from last week’s question (a ridiculous number of people want Blood Gulch back), plus a new question, asking you about armor permutations. Go read and comment!(Louis Wu 10:15:16 UTC)
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Cortana Halo 3 Silver Statue – now on eBay
Weta has put the final silver Halo statue on eBay – the gorgeous Halo 3 Cortana jumped to $1,275 in the first six hours of its listing. (Reserve has not been met yet.) As with previous auctions, you can get a high-res look at the workmanship on our gallery page – and if you check…
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Processes Begun
SonofMacPhisto beat TTL Demag0gue in announcing Reclaimer 77 – Reticent Mystery and the Reclaimer have begun to become one. Things are gettin’ funky!(Louis Wu 09:46:43 UTC)
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Looking back on the building of Believe
There’s a fascinating inside view at the development of the Halo 3 Believe diorama, as told by the ad agency that put it all together, over at Shoot Online. They couldn’t get art assets from Bungie, so they got them from McFarlane. They were able to repurpose scale models from Aliens to save some time…