Author: narcogen

Luke Smith has posted an interview with Freeverse’s Bruce Morrison over at Bungie.net to explain how and why Marathon is coming to the Xbox and the role that the Bungie community played in it: In 2004 Freeverse hired two new employees, Mark Levin and…

I’ve captured screens from many, but not all, of the individual scenes within the Halo 3 E3 2007 Campaign Trailer. Some contain things of note that have yet to be confirmed, and others show new versions of familiar objects from the Halo universe. The…

Earlier this week at E3 Lite, Microsoft and Bungie showed a video of campaign gameplay and cinematic footage from Halo 3. I’ve planned two pieces as a result. The first one examines the trends in the nature of campaign trailers from Halo 1 to Halo 3,…

Dean Takahashi has an blog entry up about Microsoft’s E3 after party which is well worth reading for its notes about the Xbox 360’s technical problems, but it also reveals a few choice tidbits about Ensemble’s RTS, Halo Wars: This game won’t ship …

Ok, this time it is for real, because it’s from the horse’s mouth, which is certainly the most trustworthy orifice on a horse. Bungie.net says that Marathon: Durandal is being brought to XBLA by none other than Mac game developer Freeverse. They have…

Gamasutra has prodded Wideload Games’ Alex “The Man” Seropian into admitting that the company he founded has a second team working on an Xbox Live Arcade title. The author suggests this may be the object of the cryptic reference, “Coming Soon: Projec…

The mysterious “fourth console” that was on stage at the Microsoft press event and then surreptituously removed before it began was the rumored additional Xbox 360 SKU– it’s a special edition of the 360 for Halo 3, with a green and orange color sche…

According to Bungie.net and HBO, Bungie is showing a two-minute video of Halo 3’s campaign at E3 right now. Bungie.net has three sizes of WMV variants, and HBO as usual has (or rather will have) WMV and QT versions. NOTE: The link to the download pag…

Kotaku is liveblogging the Microsoft press event at E3 Lite, and Brian Crecente has Marathon on his list of XBLA titles being mentioned. Stay tuned while we confirm. Rumors of such a port have been floating around for some time, and recently a German…

No, I don’t mean an XBLA release of Marathon, as it seems that is not to be; but rather, what was thought to be a long-dormant project to make a total conversion of Marathon 1 for the Unreal Tournament engine– Marathon Resurrection– has finally be…

Head on out to Wideload Games’ website, which has gotten its first major overhaul. Best new feature? RSS and ATOM feeds, without a doubt. Odd when the best feature of any new website is what allows you to see if there’s anything new without actually …

While part of me still hopes somehow that the list of Halo 3 Achievements discovered awhile back at Xbox.com is not entirely legitimate, or at least not complete and final, it did contain something quite interesting. The final nine achievements are wo…

Portions of the Hail to the Chimp website to promote Wideload’s upcoming party game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 that were previously “coming soon” have just opened. “Meet the Candidates” takes a look at five of the characters, “The Campaign Trail”…

In part due to information collected during the Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta, players can expect the release version of Halo 3’s multiplayer game to be a better experience than Halo 2, says Tyson “Ferrex” Green, Bungie’s multiplayer design lead. Toronto-ba…

The first trailer for Hail to the Chimp, Wideload’s upcoming political party beat-’em-up, is available now at 1Up, and it shows actual gameplay, including the creation of a temporary player alliance. 1Up has also done a preview. The basics? Up to fou…

First off, a quick apology for the lack of updates around here. Mrs. Narcogen and I have been moving all our worldly possessions crosstown in cardboard boxes, suitcases and backpacks over the past two weeks, and the job now is nearly done. For me, tha…

Like Louis Wu at HBO, I’m going to label this a “Halo 3 Spoiler” because if it’s accurate, it would be one. However, I have to say I’m perhaps a tiny bit more suspicious of the list than Wu. Some of the achievements themselves, as well as the art used…

According to XBLArcade.com, German website xbox-arkiv says that the German ratings board, the USK, has been asked to rate Marathon 2: Durandal, indicating that a port of the Bungie shooter classic, already open sourced and available as Aleph One will …

So now it’s over. For just about everybody. I thought I’d do one last collection of observations about the Beta before we begin the four months or so waiting for the Real Thing to arrive. However, before that happens, it’s interesting to note that the…

Stephen Totilo and N’Gai Croal finished their series of debates on the Halo 3 Beta last week, and since a lot of what they covered intersects some of the pieces I’ve written on this site in response to complaints from hardcore gamers to the effect tha…