Author: narcogen

There’s nothing really new here, but Shacknews picked up on a mention of beta testers for Destiny in Bungie’s blog and spun it into a story.

A tweet by Urk was confirmed in the Bungie mailbag as indicating that Bungie’s next game, codenamed Destiny and apparently featuring musical collaboration between Bungie’s Marty O’Donnell and the Beatles’ Paul McCartney, has reached a playable form. No…

Reader dalekbob submitted two transcriptions of music from the original Marathon game: Chomber and New Pacific (Reprise), both written by Bungie founder Alexander Seropian.

A very happy Bungie Day to all Bungiefen everywhere. Bungie doesn’t have anything posted at their site yet, but go ahead and enjoy their Bungie Day Eve Mailsack until then.

There’s a nice retrospective on the Marathon series today over at Reg Hardware. Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up.

TouchArcade has a story noting that Daniel Blezek’s ports of the Marathon games (Marathon 1 and Marathon 2: Durandal by Bungie, and Marathon: Infinity by Double Aught) are available on iOS for free.

A Joystiq story today appears to reveal rather more information about Bungie’s upcoming projects than fans are used to hearing during a quiet period. Aside from a few seconds of music and video, the term “Destiny” was about all we knew. Now, a document…

First of all, many kudos to Cody Miller who did the production and editing on this episode, rescuing it from my hard drive where it had lurked, untouched, since late last year. Miller, Blackstar and myself pick up where the discussion of Halo Anniversa…

Not to go unnoticed in the glow of Bungie’s 20th anniversary ViDoc, the MariusNet community-run Myth multiplayer server is celebrating its tenth anniversary on August 6th.

A screenshot from near the end of the O Brave New World ViDoc, featuring what many are now presuming is imagery from Bungie’s next intellectual property, and is referred to internally either as “Destiny” or “Tiger”– it’s possible that both words refer…

Bungie has posted its 20th anniversary ViDoc, O Brave New World.

The free, iOS version of Marathon that Bungie mentioned last week is now available in the App Store. The base application itself is free, but there are in-game purchases that improve the experience (better textures) or provide cheats (“Master Chief” mo…

The reality behind the mysterious Bungie Aerospace and its logo are now revealed on Bungie.net– it’s a new venture to “help independent developers create brilliant mobile and social games.” First up will be a project with Harebrained Schemes, headed b…

Narcogen, Blackstar and Cody Miller take a break from looking at the levels of Halo: Reach to discuss 343 Industries’ recent announcement of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, a high definition re-issue of the first Halo game, scheduled for release in N…

The first salvos in Bungie’s anniversary news assault have been fired, and one round has a decidedly Pfhorlike flavor. Bungie is announcing that Daniel Blezek has ported Marathon 1 to iOS; efforts started in 2010 and apparently the app is ready now– I…

Between June 23 and Bungie Day 2011 on July 7, Bungie will be bidding a fond farewell to Halo, celebrating their 20th anniversary and– wait for it– revealing Bungie Aerospace: Because we’re going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what Bungie …

There’s a lot less information out there so far about Microsoft’s other E3 2011 announcement, which is a new Halo trilogy of games featuring the Master Chief and Cortana. The teaser trailer seems to pick up pretty much where the extra Legendary ending …

First teaser trailer for Halo 4, released at E3 in 2011 and expected for release in late 2012. The trailer seems to pick up right around the same time as the extra Legendary cutscene after the credits of Halo 3.

Microsoft chose E3 this year for two Halo-related announcements. Both have been long anticipated and the subject of much speculation and controversy. First, something old: The game that started it all is being “remastered” as Halo: Combat Evolved Anniv…