Author: narcogen

Bungie.net’s latest feature is an interview with Robert McLees, artist-turned-writer who maintains the Halo Bible. What’s the Halo Bible? Funny you should ask: For lack of a more romanticized description it is the ponderous collection of lies, damned lies, and half-truths from which the entire Halo Universe is constructed. It is the tome which informs…

homicidal insomniac blogged something he came across in the Se7enSins.com forum; the aftermath of one of the unauthorized Epsilon players that The Hushed Casket mentioned awhile back. The upshot? Banned. Until December 31, 9999. Not just the XBL gamertag, but the console as well. So, yes: it is possible to override the per-gamertag restriction on…

Videogames Live has announced that EMI Classics will be publishing an album of the concert series’ greatest hits, available this coming October 15. Music from Halo will be featured. Check the press release for all the details. Thanks again, Wu, this time in #hbo.

Video Gaming Refugees Blog Confessionals has a two part interview with Bungie’s interface guru, Dave “Evil Otto” Candland. It covers a wide range of topics, but perhaps of most interest to fans now that Halo 3 is almost in our hands is– what will Bungie do next? Evil Otto: Well, who knows? I’d love to…

Ma1agate tipped us off that IGN has started offering a walkthrough for Marathon: Durandal. It’s got a section on basics to familiarize players of more modern games with the Marathon series and its unique quirks (no jumping, no reloading) as well as a section on gameplay tips and a level-by-level walkthrough.

Those “hidden” screenshots on Xbox.com? Turns out there were three of them. Gamersyde put up all three; here’s the one that wasn’t obvious to find, a multiplayer shot, seemingly from Sandtrap. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up.

The second part of the new spoiler system is now in place; user account level front page preferences. Click the My account link near the top of your account box in the lower left-hand column. You should see a tab called “roles”. Here you’ll see a list of all the spoiler settings, just like on…

Freeverse’s XBLA port of Bungie’s FPS classic Marathon 2: Durandal recently got an auto-update; you may have noticed the last time you played the game. Freeverse’s web page has a news post up about the update. The highlights are: Survival mode in demo More sensitivity controls FOV setting (for people with motion sickness problems) For…

According to GameDaily Biz, Bungie Studios’ own Director of Cinematics, CJ Cowan, will be giving a special feature presentation at ADAPT 2007 in Montreal. The presentation will be on Halo 3, focusing on the in-house use of Maya along with Bungie’s proprietary cinematic tools. Cowan’s presentation will be on September 27th; the conference runs from…

A redesign is taking place over at the Bungie store–check out the work in progress.

Gamers With Jobs urges gamers not to expect too much from Halo 3, because nothing can live up to the hype. While examining the extent to which our appetites are dictated to us by the omnipresence of information about AAA must-sell titles, it does seem that some of Julian “rabbit” Murdoch’s theses say more about…

XerxdeeJ at Tied the Leader interviews the Master Chief himself, Steve Downes, for the second time. Head right on over and download it!

The Hushed Casket has details on how some people with access to the Epsilon build of Halo 3 got duped into offering access to the game to unauthorized persons by getting access to those users’ gamertags on their own consoles, and using that gamertag to download the build. Check the story for full details; there…

Back in August, gaming website Kotaku posted scans of what purported to be a leaked Halo 3 manual on their site. Not knowing if they were genuine, they put them up and let the readership decide whether to give them credence or not. Now it seems that Internet Investigator James Young has sent Kotaku a…

John “JCal” Callaham has written another of Firing Squad’s quarterly updates on the console wars; the page on the Xbox 360 has a number of suggestions to Microsoft on how to win the console wars. FS thinks a flawless Halo 3 launch is important: Even though the game has gone gold there are still things…

How can you trust an invisible ally? posted by Narcogen at Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:42:00

Cole at Lasersharks points out that the Wikiscanner discovered an edit to the entry on Halo 3 that came from teh Sony Computer Entertainmentoffice in the UK. The edit inserted the phrase “although it wont look any better than Halo 2” into the description of the game. The edit was apparently to the Halo 3…

Louis Wu at HBO pointed out that ComWave– apparently responsible for the Radio Shack website that just added a Halo 3 product page– will correct some of the errors in the previous product description, and also added additional screenshots to their gallery. I’ve collected the new shots, with Wu’s gracious technical assistance, in the images…

Just so the dastardly scheme doesn’t work, I’ll post to the summary complete reproduction of the post at xbox360Rally. GameDaily is offering an article called “six reasons to pass up on this crappy game” that is filled with nonsense and self-contradictions. Not to mention, it’s basically six paragraphs on six separate pages. First they complain…

Bioshock is, by all accounts, an incredible-looking story-driven shooter with deep gameplay for the Xbox 360. So is Halo 3. The major difference between the two of them– on top of Halo’s multiplayer, saved films and map editing features, is that Bioshock is out already, and Halo 3 is not. Despite this, on Amazon.com, two…