Month: February 2013
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Bungie Alums Resurface With Familiar-Looking Project
Bungie co-founder Alexander Seropian, who left Bungie after Halo 1 to found Wideload Games back in Chicago, has found himself a new gig: he’s teaming up with another Bungie alum, Brent Pease of…
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Tyrant’s Halo 4 Legendary Walkthrough – Reclaimer
From MythicTyrant: With Infinity back on the offensive, it launches the fleet’s largest land-based vehicle – the Mammoth – to aid the Master Chief in bringing down the Gravity Well. Unfortunately, a series of particle cannons stand in the way between …
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Meanscreen Production Machinimas
PhatMonkey shared some Meanscreen Production machinimas – The shorts are particularly wacky. Overly friendly Flood is worst Flood. Go check them out!(mastrbiggy 10:07:27 UTC)
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Feminist Review of Halo 3: ODST
Dragonclaws posted another feminist analytical review on Youtube – this time she takes a look at Halo 3: ODST. Go watch!(mastrbiggy 09:56:46 UTC)
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Spartan Ops Paving the Way for Future DLC
Jake108 let us know about his Geekscape article that talks about how Spartan Ops revolutionized console downloadable content. Go read!(mastrbiggy 09:52:44 UTC)
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Successful Troll Is Successful
An obvious troll slings some mud at Bungie and manages to provoke a thoughtful resopnse from Achronos about Bungie’s plans for deep social integration between Bungie.net and Destiny: This web site is designed for a game you know little about. It is d…
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Predestination Is Pre-Sorted Mail
Bungie’s first Mail Sack since the Destiny reveal is open for questions at Bungie.net. Deej also includes word that “a steady cadence of updates” is planned, so if the reveal only left you wanting more, don’t worry, it’s coming. So go ahead and submi…
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Previews Aren’t The Problem
While he specifically mentions Aliens: Colonial Marines and not the press coverage of Bungie’s Destiny reveal, Ben Kuchera’s latest piece at Penny Arcade Report is about the shortcomings of game journalism, and makes a nice bookend to Matt Soell’s pie…
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Taking A Closer Look
MrGreencastle in the DBO forum also picked apart some of the images from the ViDoc, taking a detailed look at what they might mean for Destiny’s interface and gameplay features.
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The Destiny Letters
Ex-Bungie Community Guy Matt Soell, who was with the company during the early Halo days, has penned a response to some of the complaints about Destiny’s reveal being more “hype” than “substance”. It’s well worth a read, so please go take a look (Warni…
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Halo 4 Mythbusters – Episode 6
From DefendTheHouse: DefendTheHouse is proud to present the sixth installment of our Halo 4 Mythbusters series! In this episode, we put some of our most asked questions to the test. Halo 4 Mythbusters – Episode 6 Discuss
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Prima Games Official Spartan Ops eGuide – Episode 10
From Prima Games: Things have not gotten better despite the string of defeats you’ve delivered upon the Covenant. If anything, things have only managed to get worse. Requiem is on a collision course with its sun, which will claim the USNC Infinity c…
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Renegades Episode 3 – A Halo: Reach Machinima
From NukeTacoProductions: This week, the momentum of last week’s action-packed episode doesn’t slow down. How so? You’ll just have to watch and find out. We hope you like you what you see, and we hope to see you back next week for the release of Episo…
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Revisiting a 10-year-old talk
Wow, was THIS a blast from the past… in more ways than one! BOLL stopped by (!!!) to point out that a 2003 GDC talk by Jaime Griesemer, Marty O’Donnell, and Mat Noguchi (and Hamilton Chu!) was made available in video form. Back in 2006, Gamasutra rel…
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Requiem
If you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone 4S, davidfuchs has created a pretty gorgeous Forerunner-like theme for you – check it out.(Louis Wu 14:35:31 UTC)
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HBO Forum Card Game – a look at what almost was
pete_the_duck stopped in to announce the final state of his HBO Forum Card Game project, with descriptions, pictures, and a Schooly D-supplied video. (Save Schooly’s bandwidth and watch our slightly smaller version here.) I’m sad, now, that this will n…
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Visualizing the Halo Universe: Round 7
Postmortem has announced another round of his Visualizing the Halo Universe competition (I hesitate to call it a contest, because there are no prizes, but I LOVE seeing what people come up with) – swing by to read all the details! You’ve got a couple o…
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It’s Your Destiny… Maybe
Ben Kuchera at the Penny Arcade Report seems optimistic about the possibilities for a PC version of Destiny. That’s good, I suppose, given the number of people threatening dire consequences to Bungie on Twitter if they don’t. IGN’s commentary around …
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Majestic Map Pack Gameplay
CyReN found four videos showing gameplay on new the maps included in the Majestic map pack – one of the videos even shows off a new game type called Infinity Rumble. These maps look great – Landfall kind of reminds me of Halo 3’s Longshore. Go watch!(m…
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Collaborating on Halo 4’s Majestic Map Pack
Polygon posted an article detailing the collaborative development between 343i and Certain Affinity on the Majestic map pack. It provides some interesting insight into how the two studios communicate ideas. Thanks, Hypertrooper.(mastrbiggy 09:03:39 UTC)