Author: narcogen

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…

Logon to the beta now and you’ll see that Big Team Battle has moved from training to ranked, and Double Team Training has taken its place in the social playlists. Check Bungie.net for the list of currently active playlists.

Lukems has a new top story up at Bungie.net; this one is about the exceptional audio in the Halo 3 beta. Sound and music have always been strong points of the series, but I have to say that I think so far Halo 3 is taking it to a whole new level; poss…

Sorahn has set up a sort of halo mini-site at halo.sorahn.net; within that there’s a Halo 3 beta subsection where he’s laid out all the ranks, weapons, and medals.

I’m going to start with a really, really tiny detail and try to use it to come to a sweeping statement about what makes a game fun. The detail we’ll start with is weapon spawns in the Halo games: why timers are fair, but not fun, and why slightly rand…

Okay, so not everybody is in love with Halo 3. Over at the Hushed Casket, Midnight calls it “fun” and details the changes. Rapture calls it a bigger, prettier Halo 2, and it’s most decidedly not a compliment. Of course you can’t please everybody, and …

Bungie has swapped out the Team Training list for a Big Team Training playlist. This features Banshees when played on Valhalla.

More articles about the Halo 3 Beta around the web: GamingExcellence likes what they see but think Bungie has taken a “safe approach” to changes in Halo 3. Hushed Casket has impressions of Halo 3 by Midnight and rapture; they’re not nearly as impresse…

More ramblings on the Internet over the past few days about the Halo 3 beta. Cinema Blend Games got a chance to try team gameplay and liked what they saw. Urban Reflex talks about the problems people had with their beta codes, as well as what some pe…