Author: narcogen

Thanks to Louis Wu who wrote in to Bungie.net about Coldnose Sloth, who successfully recreated the serial number generator for Marathon and gave it a web interface, for those times when you need some extra serial numbers for multiplayer.

Blackstar and Narcogen look at the return of the Flood to the Halo series in Halo 3’s Floodgate level. Part one of two. This is the M4A version of the episode, compatible with iTunes; it contains advanced features such as embedded graphics and chapter markers. If you want the plain MP3 version to play in…

Blackstar and Narcogen look at the return of the Flood to the Halo series in Halo 3’s Floodgate level. Part one of two. This is the MP3 version of the episode, compatible with the online player. If you use iTunes and want the advanced features, go to this version: http://rampancy.net/audio/AAC/08/01/2009/Anger_Sadness_and_Envy_Episode_5_Floodgate_Part_1_2_mp4

Hawty McBloggy has put up the nominations for the 2008 Best of Halo awards, divided into ten categories, over at HawtyMcBloggy.com and Rampancy’s been nominated, in the best resource website category. Up against the 800lb. gorilla that is HBO one can’t expect to do more than score a point here or there, but the real…

…or the Spartan gets it!

According to Marty O’Donnell (and he should know) you can finally buy 100% official Halo sheet music, starting with One Final Effort from Halo 3. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.

Still ten shopping days left, but Aleph One has left all the old school fans a present to open early: a new version of the open source Marathon engine for playing Marathon 1, Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity and third-party scenarios on PCs, Macs, and Linux computers.

HBO and the HBO forum have both provided links to an editorial by “William Usher” at Cinema Blend about how Halo is killing console gaming. So now that this specious attempt to nab page hits has worked, there can be little further damage that I can do except to examine the author’s premise and see…

GamesIndustryBiz has put up the second part of an interview with Bungie’s Brian “SketchFactor” Jarrard and Luke Smith. Here is part one. Sketch remarks therein that Bungie has complete freedom to choose the publisher and platform for their new intellectual property– property that Microsoft does not own. Microsoft does own Halo, and Bungie has a…

Bad Cyborg covers some interesting techniques for tackling Tsavo Highway on foot. This is a lot of fun, if you’ve never tried it, you’re missing out. A level that with vehicles and support troops is a quick breeze through the trees with a couple of thorny spots becomes a nice challenge all the way through.

GameCock, famed interrupter of awards ceremonies, holder of funerals for tradeshows, and publishers of games by Wideload such as Hail to the Chimp, have been acquired by SouthPeak. SouthPeak published last year’s Two Worlds RPG on the PC and 360, a game that was widely criticized for failing to live up to the high standards…

Liveblogging the Microsoft keynote address from the Tokyo Games Show in Japan, Major Nelson says that Microsoft has shown the announcement trailer for Bungie’s next Halo game. It’s a prologue to Halo 3 called Halo 3: Recon, and as the rumor mill has long anticipated, it is a story told from the perspective of ODST…

GameDaily has an interview with writer Stuart Beattie, who is taking Eric Nylund’s Halo novel The Fall Of Reach and adapting it into a film script. Beattie was the writer on Pirates of the Carribbean and G.I. Joe, and wrote a Gears of War script last year.

Okay, first of all, I know, there’s no such thing as official Mythic difficulty in Halo 3. That’s what people call playing solo, legendary, all skulls on (HSH calls them SLASO to create more acronyms). Asmodeus has posted over at HBO a walkthrough for this mode that makes this possible, and it’s fantastic. If you…

Okay, first of all, I know, there’s no such thing as official Mythic difficulty in Halo 3. That’s what people call playing solo, legendary, all skulls on (HSH calls them SLASO to create more acronyms). Daniel “Tyrant” Morris has posted over at HBO a walkthrough for this mode that makes this possible, and it’s fantastic.…

According to the intertubes, Microsoft is forging ahead with Halo using a new internal studio. Forming the team are Ryan Payton, formerly of Kojima Productions and the producer of Metal Gear Solid 4; Corinne Yu, former technician at Gearbox; and at least two former Bungie employees: writer Frank “Frankie” O’Connor and animator Nathan “bentllama” Walpole.…

So the teaser that Bungie wanted to tease us with this past E3 is now out for download on Bungie.net in the usual flavors of QuickTime and Windows Media. Luke Smith’s post on Bungie.net calls this a “CG-teaser” and the front page refers to it as being for “one of our current projects”. My general…

Bungie restarted the delayed countdown from this year’s E3 with the Superintendent urging everyone to stay calm and keep clean– at least until about seven minutes from now. Images on the intertubes (thanks Veegie) suggest perhaps something as dramatic as a trailer for a brand-new Bungie game.

Wideload’s Halo-engine zombie game, Stubbs the Zombie, is available for the PC for only five bucks now from Steam. Thanks GameFocus for the heads-up.

Looks like the Superintendent is back. Perhaps one (or more) of the Bungie announcements that were indefinitely postponed at this year’s E3 are about to be made public.