Author: Bungie Sightings
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Community pages no more…
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Geocities.com is closing today. Gone. Zilch. Zip. Nada. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/10/geocities-closing.html If you do a google search like this or this or this or this, You’ll find dozens of sites that cropped up starting way back in the 90’s born out of love for Bungie’s games. I hope, though I doubt, that the owners of these sites…
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New Game
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The few hundred Bungie employees must be doing something to kill time up there in the Studio. What can it be?…
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One chance, and one chance only…
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So, if you had the opportunity to ask Jason Jones one question, and one question only, what would it be?…
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Nail in the coffin for Halo Movie?
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As reported in Variety and Deadline Hollywood Daily, Larry Shapiro has left his position at CAA. What’s the big deal? Remember when Bungie would mention how they were meeting with CAA and shopping the Halo script around to movie production houses? Larr…
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Halo at Video Games Live concert
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The evening of March 31, 2007, Louis Wu and I (and my son, Rafi) met at Yale’s Woosley Hall in New Haven, CT for the phenomenon that is Video Games Live. The premise is video game music played by a symphony/choir. We had a great time! It definitely ran the gamut of games – starting…
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Alex to Keynote at Vancouver International Game Summit
Excited much? If any faithful readers will happen to be in the Vancouver area Friday, May 4, get yerself over to this conference and let us know what The Man has to say!…
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The Bungie Acronym Compendium
JNAMSTFY. DMUKYA. ABTFIPASO5. These cryptic identifiers have entertained, enightened, frustrated, and confounded Bungie fans since the early days in Chicago. Found on nearly every game and soundtrack created or licensed by Bungie, a surprising number of these enigmatic acronyms remain unsolved….
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The Bungie Acronym Compendium
JNAMSTFY. DMUKYA. ABTFIPASO5. These cryptic identifiers have entertained, enightened, frustrated, and confounded Bungie fans since the early days in Chicago. Found on nearly every game and soundtrack created or licensed by Bungie, a surprising number of these enigmatic acronyms remain unsolved….
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Bye bye game debris
If you check out the latest Bungie Weekly Update (I link to the b.org copy as it loads so clean and fast) you’ll find an interesting tidbit that may spell doom to future ‘prizes’ in the next Bungie game. Noguchi has been “making a pony.” Since he always speaks in metaphor I was annoyed, until…
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Oh boy
Believe it or not, Mr. Seropian is actually working on a new reality TV show for FOX broadcasting! I’m very very interested to see how this gets pulled off….
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Did Stubbs make an appearance?
Caught this on Slashdot. Apparently there’s a ‘grassroots’ Zombie Lurch that has been occurring annually for the last few years, in different cities. Madison, WI (A lovely city by the way, I attended a LAN there a few years back) is this year’s ‘victim’ of the zombie horde. You can check out a bunch of…
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Stubbs reviews are starting to appear
1UP, the site that was hosting Alex’s ‘blog’ about Stubbs development, has officially reviewed the game. It’s basically a rave review for a fresh ‘strategy/action’ hybrid game that will debut for us mere mortals in just a few days. The highlights they note are really all that we’ve come to expect from Bungie/Wideload… an attention…
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Soell sings his heart out
Read about Matt Soell and his current faves in music, books, tv, and games over at Gamasutra. It’s an interesting read if you think a game is influenced by what the authors are currently into. Matt has always given his group an extra dose of irony and a twist of counter-culture (he’s not the only…
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Stubbs is stubb-elicious
I had the pleasure of visiting Wideload recently and was impressed with their progress on the game. It’s coming along really well and the hints of multiple-platform simul-release seems like a sure thing. And if not simul, then near-simul. But the most important bit of info I gleaned from these talented folks is that they’re…
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Bungie Bails Boring Building Block!
It seems that Bungie is moving out of their Microsoft offices and into a hundred-year-old hardware store in nearby Kirkland. According to the article: “The team is running out of space and is relocating to maintain team camaraderie that they’ve had since moving from Chicago.”…
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Get the Stuff on the Stiff
Once again it’s time to drag our old friend Stubbs the Zombie out from behind the curtain to see how he’s decomposing. Not only have we got a Q&A with Alex Seropian on Wideload’s upcoming game, but three tasty, delicious, new screenshots for you as well. Dig in!…
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JNAMSFTFY
Longtime Bungie fans will need no introduction or explanation as to the meaning of the letters above, but in case you’ve come in to this warm hovel from out in the cold, dark wasteland of the “other” game communities, I offer the following. (NOTE: UPDATED 04-03-2006) The comments are now locked, because 343 is a…
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My Experience at ESPNZone
As mentioned over at sister site HBO, I was one of the fortunate folks that got picked to play Halo 2 MP over in Times Sq today, at the ESPNZone during one of ESPN’s morning shows, Cold Pizza. I heard that over 2000 folks entered the raffle, of which 50 were chosen and a handful…
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Celebrity Voices
Joseph Staten mentions in a recent interview over at Gamespy (thanks HBO) the particular challenge he faced when writing lines for distinguished actors who lent their voice talents to the game. He reveals that the alien named “Prophet of Truth”, was an especially interesting character to write lines for, knowing the particular nuances the actor…
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Cadaver Console Creation
So what do you think? It’s freaky, it’s weird, it’s unusual… in other words, it’s got that pure Bungie spirit that we’ve come to expect from these folks. Except it’s not Bungie. It’s Alex’s new company, Wideload, that is making "Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel without a Pulse"These shots are cribbed from the Gamespot interview…