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Blackstar of Blackstar Productions and Narcogen of Bungie fansite Rampancy.net cover from beginning to end, the “Halo” level of Halo 3, discussing art, gameplay, story, and comparisons to Halo 1. Also in this episode: special guest, Bungie’s official #1 fan, Miguel “Freewill” Chavez. Show highlights: Coming Full Circle There’s Two Of Us In Here Now…

Three veterans of Bungie LLC (née Bungie Studios, née Bungie Software) are forming a new venture: Moonshot Games. Moonshot was founded by former Halo producer Michael Bastien, Bungie AI programmer Damián Isla and Halo 3 designer/writer Rob Stokes. Also on board is artist Mike McCain. The company’s site says they are going into a quiet…

I’m not convinced this is the best way to do this as it doesn’t really allow the level of Google Maps interactivity I wanted (multiple simultaneous editing) but it is a possible first step. If you launch Google Earth and choose “Network Layer” from the Add menu and type in the URL: http://rampancy.net/sites/rampancy.net/files/mombassa_odst.kml You’ll get…

Just a short note: the image gallery that accompanies the Cortana podcast episode posted yesterday is also now up, for all those people who (like me) don’t yet have their copies of ODST and are still trying to avoid spoilers. The next episode, Halo, will be out as soon as possible although I do expect…

Blackstar of Blackstar Productions and Narcogen of Bungie fansite Rampancy.net cover from beginning to end, the “Cortana” level of Halo 3, discussing art, gameplay, story, and comparisons to Halo 1. Also in this episode: special guest, Bungie’s official #1 fan, Miguel “Freewill” Chavez. Show highlights: Bungie Fans or Halo Fans? Changes Were Made Flamethrowers: Fried…

First I’ll say this: I liked District 9. However, I never really thought Neill Blomkamp was really the best choice to do the Halo film, and reading this quote in his interview with Rotten Tomatoes only confirmed it for me: But the flip side is that the reason I wanted to do Halo in the…

If you’re looking to get your Marathon on and you don’t have the XBLA port, the open source project Aleph One is still going strong. The latest update makes changes to the Lua scripting engine and adds HUD enhancements similar to the one in the XBLA version. Aleph One runs on Macs, Linux, oh, and…

There were those who said it couldn’t be done. There were those who said it shouldn’t be done. What are they to say now? Probably something along the lines of “you’re insane” because that’s a bit how I feel right now dropping a whopping two hours and twenty-four minutes of Anger, Sadness and Envy covering…

Blackstar of Blackstar Productions and Narcogen of Bungie fansite Rampancy.net cover from beginning to end, “The Covenant” level of Halo 3, discussing art, gameplay, story, and comparisons to Halo 1. Show highlights: Can Pelicans Land? Needs Moar Splazer Wraiths Not Worth Stealing Why Do Forerunners Need Such Big Doors? You Grabbed My Johnson… Twice Elites: Reluctant…

I’ll admit it, we’re between a rock and a hard place here. The rock is the backlog of Anger, Sadness & Envy podcast episodes covering the latter half of The Ark, plus the last three levels of Halo 3: The Covenant, Cortana, and Halo. The proverbial hard place is the quickly approaching release of Halo…

Blackstar of Blackstar Productions and Narcogen of Bungie fansite Rampancy.net run through the first part of the Halo 3 level “The Ark”, covering art, gameplay and story. Show Highlights: Halo Rail Shooter Forerunner Portals By Aperture Science In The Desert, You Can Remember Your Name Covenant Carnivores Up In The Sky, It’s A Bird, It’s…

Blackstar of Blackstar Productions and Narcogen of Bungie fansite Rampancy.net cover the second half of “The Ark” level from Halo 3, discussing art, gameplay, story, and comparisons to Halo 1. Show highlights: Clearing the Landing Zone Halo 3 Scorpions: More Power, Less Control? Phantoms: More Fun Than Scarabs Light Bridges: Less Filling, Tastes Great Pants…

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The Bungie.net group For Carnage Apply Within, which plays classic Bungie games Marathon and Myth every week, notes that Project Magma has released version 1.70 of Myth II. Some info about the patch: Myth II runs better than ever with accelerated hardware rendering on both Windows XP and Mac OS X platforms, while keeping support…

Okay, I admit it. After the announcement of Halo: Reach, set to come out in 2010, only twelve months or so after this year’s Halo 3: ODST, I was set to bash Bungie for being unoriginal and Microsoft for upping the production quota on the goose that laid the golden egg(s). I had a piece…