Author: narcogen

Bungie really went all out to make this a game that gave players everything they could ask for. It stumbled a bit in the storytelling and the weapon design, but the heart of the game is in the multiplayer, and there they provided such a wealth of game …

Everything in Halo: Reach feels like a love letter to the series and its fans – that is, the ones that aren’t going to ignore the single-player and immediately jump into spending hours online with the multiplayer.

The Escapist has put together a pretty graphical timeline for the Halo franchise. Not the events in-game, but the history of the franchise itself, from Bungie’s founding in 1991 to Reach’s release earlier this week.

I’ve now put up a Reach Reviews Page to succeed the old Halo 3 Reviews page. There’s also a front-page block on the right that shows the latest new reviews. Feel free to submit your own review!

In this episode of Anger, Sadness and Envy, Blackstar and Narcogen, together with Miguel Chavez of Bungie Sightings and special guest, Claude “Louis Wu” Errera, webmaster of fansite Bungie.org, take a look at Halo: Reach due out this week. Both our gu…

Nothing to do with Bungie directly, but I did write a couple of blog posts about the recent discussion on the interwebz in general (and at Penny Arcade in specific) about the used game market, spurred by comments made by THQ’s Cory Ledesma earlier this…

Bungie AI programmer Max Dyckhoff last month mentioned a long-standing bug in Halo’s driving code he’d found and eliminated. He was later kind enough to go into a bit more detail about how Halo’s AI figures out how to handle driving and riding in vehi…

Blackstar and Narcogen take a look at the two recently released Reach videos; the RvB reveal of Blood Gulch remake, Hemorrhage, and Bungie’s own ViDoc about Forge World and Reach’s new map editing features. Show Highlights:  Click here …

Narcogen and Blackstar, together with Miguel Chavez, take a look at the inclusion of ODST’s Firefight mode in Halo: Reach. This is an extended audio version of Episode 17’s video episode, in MP3 format. Show Highlights:  Click here for&…

According to Stosh Sketch (via HBO and NeoGAF) Bungie had to “outsource” its Bungie Day gift for this year… not sure what that means, but in a few hours I suppose we’ll find out. UPDATE: Stosh Sketch goes on in that NeoGAF thread to say that this y…

Blackstar, Miguel Chavez and Narcogen take a look at the new information about Halo Reach released at E3 2010, including the addition of space combat and changes to ODST’s Firefight mode. – Right Click on Links to Download – ASE 17 Widescreen 360 SD si…

Blackstar, Miguel Chavez and Narcogen take a look at the new information about Halo Reach released at E3 2010, including the addition of space combat and changes to ODST’s Firefight mode. – Right Click on Links to Download – ASE 17 Widescreen 360 SD si…

Blackstar, Miguel Chavez and Cody Miller take a look at the Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta in this video installment of Anger, Sadness & Envy. – Right Click on Links to Download – ASE 16 Widescreen 360 SD size – Download ASE 16 Widescreen 720 HD size – Download (Apple QuickTime Required)

Blackstar, Miguel Chavez and Cody Miller take a look at the Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta in this video installment of Anger, Sadness & Envy. – Right Click on Links to Download – ASE 16 Widescreen 360 SD size – Download ASE 16 Widescreen 720 HD size…

Just a quick note; the podcast pages have been slightly reorganized to clear up some things that were confusing. We’ve always uploaded an enhanced AAC file in an M4A container first; ASE is authored in GarageBand, and this format, readable by iTunes, s…

Narcogen and Blackstar, together with Miguel Chavez, look forward to the Halo Reach Beta coming May 3, 2010; wrap up some final thoughts on Halo 3: ODST, and reminisce about the retirement of Halo 2 multiplayer on Xbox Live. Show Highlights: Look, Wend…

Narcogen and Blackstar, together with Miguel Chavez, look forward to the Halo Reach Beta coming May 3, 2010; wrap up some final thoughts on Halo 3: ODST, and reminisce about the retirement of Halo 2 multiplayer on Xbox Live. Show Highlights: Look, Wendy, I Can Fly What Is The Primary Main Objective These Are Not…

A deeper look at ODST– what worked and what didn’t in this small-team, short-cycle Bungie experiment that landed with the profile of a fat expansion and the pricetag of a discounted full title. Show Highlights: Keep On Truckin’ GamesRadar: 7/10 Was OD…

A deeper look at ODST– what worked and what didn’t in this small-team, short-cycle Bungie experiment that landed with the profile of a fat expansion and the pricetag of a discounted full title. Show Highlights: Keep On Truckin’ GamesRadar: 7/10 Was ODST a Good Idea? Demise of Chronicles Comes With Beta (or The Crackdown Factor)…