Month: March 2009
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Alpha Zombie
The Bungie Blog got word of ‘Alpha Zombie’, a machinima from Ze Royal Viking Productions. It’s a bit long (12 minutes, spread out over 2 segments – Part 1 | Part 2 – with about three minutes of credits between them), but it’s a coherent story. Give it a shot.(Louis Wu 16:50:31 UTC)
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New work from Luke McKay
Luke McKay continues to play with Halo images – a couple of weeks ago, he sketched up a great angle on the Master Chief, and today he released a shot done in a new style he’s been experimenting with. Pretty nice work! We’ve added both of these to his Gallery here. Update: Oops, almost missed…
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GDC Summary – The Bungie Edition
The 2009 Game Developers Conference kicks off in a little over a week – and here are the Bungie/Halo related presenters:Max Hoberman (former Multiplayer Lead for Halo games) has a talk called ‘From Bungie to Bootstrapping – Starting an Independent Developer Studio’.Allen Murray (Producer, Halo 3) is sharing production challenges in a talk entitled ‘Building…
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This Spartan Life – Coming (Back) Soon!
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from This Spartan Life – but they’re coming back! There’s a new trailer up on their website, showing off their unique combination of interesting interviews and… well, bullets to the head. Thanks to finalcutmin for noticing!(Louis Wu 12:17:19 UTC)
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Mongoose Commercial
The Bungie Blog posted a fan-made video showcasing the Mongoose – it’s a lot of fun. Go watch it in HD!(Louis Wu 12:17:00 UTC)
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Expanding the Emotional Universe
Wow. Just… wow. vector40 (who was once a large contributor to our Fan Fiction section) stopped by last night to mention that the textbook being used in a course he’s taking on video game structure contains a Halo-based fan-written poem… taken from our Fan Fiction section. In fact, it was written by UNSC Trooper, who’s…
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AH: The Procrastinator Achievement Guide
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Today’s Halo Wars video covers the game’s 10th level, and shows how to nab not only the hidden skull and black box, but also the “Procrastinator” Achievement as well.
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Textbook Features Halo Fan Fiction
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Halo fan and Halo fan fiction author vector40 pointed out that one of his college textbooks, Understanding Videogames by Simon Egenfeldt-Nielson, features a piece of Halo fan fiction by UNSC Trooper– a fiction featured in, of course, the HBO fan fiction section. It’s a poem entitled Hymn To The Fallen.