Author: narcogen

Kotaku.com Killzone 2 Devs Joyously Toe The LineKotaku.com, NY – 12 minutes agoBY KAGEBUTSU AT 09/03/07 10:49 PM Have you guys ever noticed how modest bungie employees are in interviews compared to the developers of killzone and haze. …  Click here for the complete text.

1Up’s latest piece on Halo 3 covers the “Bungie Recommends” feature that will take game variants and Forge map variants from individual player shares and suggest them to the community at large. That’ll be how custom community-made gametypes, like Halo 2’s honor-rules zombie, or dawn of the dead variants, will spread in Halo 3. They’ve…

WizKids On Halo ActionClixGamespy.com, CA – 2 hours agoEveryone’s looking for the next big thing, and arguably, there’s nothing bigger and hotter than Bungie’s upcoming Halo 3. WizKids, the company behind the …  Click here for the complete text.

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TheBest32 writes that the transcription of the piece Earth City from Halo 2 that we was arranging for two pianos will be a little later than he expected– but still out before Halo 3. I’m guessing most things that don’t get done before Halo 3 won’t end up getting done until a good while after…

TotalVideoGames has put up a short preview of Halo 3 based on the showing of Tsavo Highway at Leipzig this year. Like a lot of similar previews, they’re calling the graphics “improved” since the Beta, probably not realizing that campaign was more detailed than multiplayer all along– and has been since Halo 1.

Spong GC’07: Halo 3Total Video Games, UK – 6 hours agoThere’s a certain slickness to the presentation of Halo 3, and it’s good to finally see that Bungie has added some ‘next-gen finesse’ to the game; …Halo 3 Xbox 360 goodies dated XBoxerMicrosoft confirms Halo 3 controllers launch date Pocket-lint.co.ukNew Xbox 360 Controllers This Week SpongDigital Spy -…

Staff writer Gavin Mackenzie at 360 Magazine in the UK writes to us that they’re publishing a special Halo 3 edition of their magazine, chock-full of Halo-related content, including a history of Bungie and a feature on the game. He sent us a few sample pages from the magazine and a scan of the cover.…

Probably not possible. posted by Narcogen at Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:00:00

Yes, everybody has to get into the act. Even Radio Shack is offering pre-orders of Halo 3. If you can get over the terrible description of the game noticed by Avateur in the HBO forum (thanks for the heads-up to Ibeechu in #hbo), you’ll notice a collection that seems to include some new screenshots; shortly…

I know the last post was too long, so here’s a summary. Bottom line, users can now: Search and sort images Send and receive private messages Submit site content (news, blogs, images, polls, and FAQs) Have fun!

I’m now starting to make some of the functional changes on the site enabled by the last Drupal software upgrade. The first change is probably the most basic. The old image gallery used to display a listing of all galleries, with a sample image, and an image count, which was very nice. However, when you…

MR2NoShoes writes a long post in the HBO forum about how he was a Mac-using Marathon fan who drifted out of the Bungie community after the MS buyout, only to find himself roped back in by winning an Xbox. His return was solidified by attendance at a hush-hush backroom Bungie party at PAX. Check out…

Xbox.com’s weekly newsletter points out an interview with Frankie about Halo 3. He says the focus in Halo 3 is playing it your way: I hope that the main thing players take away is how much Halo 3 is their game. That is to say, it’s a game that lets them play it the way…

Reverend Anthony at Destructoid wonders out loud how it’s possible to have a satisfying ending to a game narrative that isn’t just a boss battle without taking the sense of control and identification away from the player. He’s got a good point. The article mentions a wide variety of games, but the Halo series does…

There’s been an awful lot of community discussion around the first version of Microsoft’s recently released Game Content Usage Rules. Most likely a result of Halo 3’s upcoming Saved Films feature, Microsoft is the first game publisher to openly publish such rules, instead of simply remaining silent over copyright violations that do benefit them insofar…

Tex did a calculation over at Queen of the Hill to find out exactly how much her Halo obsession costs. The grand total? $2098 and change. Yowza.

Over the last 24 hours I’ve updated Rampancy.net from Drupal 4.7 to the latest 5.2. To the best of my knowledge, no features have been lost– drop me a line if something seems broken. If you look at the top of the page, you’ll see the new spoiler system. For years we’ve tagged items as…

Major Nelson posts a note that the Halo Wars “First Look” trailer, clocking in at a tad under 500 Mb in High Definition trim, is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace: Based on the Halo universe, Halo Wars introduces a new landmark in the strategy genre. Halo Wars places the player in command of human…

According to Xbox.com, Halo 3 has gone gold, or been “released to manufacturing” according to the article. Looks like RT mentioned it first in the HBO forum, and of course it’s been picked up by HBO itself, Major Nelson, Xbox 360 Fanboy, GameSpot and the horse’s mouth: Bungie.net. In a short but sweet news post,…