Author: narcogen

The Power Of Ten is a simple idea: make a Myth map using only ten monster tags. Check their site for official rules. Thanks to PlayMyth for the announcement.

Let’s face it: if the Halo 3 Public Beta is our new Great Journey, then the Prophet of Truth is a liar, because some of us are going to be left behind. Not everybody who wants to can get in. If everybody could get in, there’d be no difference between the beta test and actually…

Bungie.net has a new moderator, Evilcam, and as a reward, he gets an interview with KP. Let’s hope that satisfaction in a job well done is reward enough.

Since some HBO forumgoers were kind enough to hold open the thread for me, I’m now morally obligated to deliver the goods on the Brute documentary. Given that it is longer and more up-front with its new content than the TV ad, I think a frame by frame analysis, in most places, is unwarranted, so…

HaloDev has put up the first of in a series of “Feature Focus” articles. This one, by Talin, is accompanied by a very complex render done by Talin and Veegie and covers the technique of normal mapping to add the appearance of detail to textured polygons. Veegie also produced another, more sedate image of an…

Xbox Live is telling you to walk away from the television set and spend time with your friends and family in the real world this holiday season. At least, that’s the message one might infer from the fact that for several hours now, subscribers can connect to the services to browse the Marketplace or use…

Trakan, a moderator at the Cheap Ass Gamer forum, has posted scans of an ad for the upcoming Xbox 360 game, Crackdown, in Gamepro magazine. According to the scan, “specially marked boxes” of Crackdown will include an invitation to the Halo 3 multiplayer beta. This seems to be the first sighting in North America of…

Although the track “Siege of Madrigal” is actually from Bungie’s earlier RTS game, Myth, it also appears in a hidden spot in the Halo level “Assault on the Control Room”. If you fly a Banshee to one of the ledges high above the pyramid structure at the end of that level, and stand on the…

This one is machine and nerve, and will make a good tree-trimming; This one is but flesh and faith… and will get coal inside his stocking. Have a Merry Christmas… we’d rather not piss this thing off.

Spartan182 discusses in his blog the possibility of plasma energy swords being dual-wieldable in Halo 3, based on suggestions in the Brute video documentary. One might think this would make such characters a bit too powerful, although I’m not really sure how carrying two instant-kill weapons really makes a difference unless you can lunge in…

Max “Yeroen” Hoberman, Bungie alum and founder of Texas-based Certain Affinity, now working on new Halo 2 multiplayer maps for release next year, gave an interview to Firing Squad. However, that’s not all they’re working on, apparently: FiringSquad: You are also working on a new game. What can you tell us about this game at…

So the Brute documentary is out. I’m going to stop using Bungie’s VIDOC or Video Documentary term, because I really couldn’t think of any other kind of documentary except perhaps for film, and since George Lucas says film is dead and HD Video is the way to go, I suppose it’s redundant. Certain pockets of…

MereCatfish provided us with this early capture from Bungie’s 7-minute-long Brute documentary. This one shows (along with an Elite and various lines of fire and information about local terrain) alterations made to the heads-up display, with the shield strength bar separated from the motion detector and placed dead center, straight up. What appear to be…

Captain Jacob Keyes started to have bad luck from the first moments of Halo 1. His ship, preparing for a secret mission, was ambushed when the Covenant attacked Reach. They fled blindly, only to arrive at Halo 04 and find the Covenant waiting for them. After a valiant effort, the ship crashes on Halo and…

A couple of newsworthy items noted at WideloadGames.org that skipped my notice until just now: Alex “The Man” Seropian and Matt Soell, as well as others from Wideload, attended a meeting of the new Madison, Wisconship chapter of the International Game Developers Association last month. No missing brains have yet been reported. Furthermore, the ring…

Ahh, the Halo rumor mill. When the tabloids fail to satisfy or even titillate, Halo rumors always ride to the rescue. A Microsoft blogger in Belgium apparently reposted verbatim an electronic mail message sent from a “bigwig” at Microsoft about a video due to hit Xbox Marketplace on December 20th. The email alleged the 7…