Author: narcogen

Halogen, an unofficial fan project to create a real-time strategy game in the Halo universe, is shutting down due to a request from Microsoft. From their homepage: Hours ago, we finally recieved the words we’ve been dreading since the mod started to get noticed. Microsoft has decided that we are infringing on the intellectual property…

San Jose Mercury News columnist Dean Takahashi, also author of books on the Xbox and Xbox 360, has a new column up saying that a small team of developers within Bungie Studios, led by Jason Jones and Chris Butcher, aren’t working on Halo 3. They’re working on something else: They are on a small project…

Gamasutra reports that Alexis Nolent, Editorial Story Design Director for Ubisoft, delivered remarks at the Austin Games Conference on the integration of stories into games. He seems to favor the Half-Life 2 brand of “scripted events” versus the more traditional, cinematic sort of Halo-style “cutscenes”: First, he saw a trend toward fewer cinematics, and more…

Josh Rodgers and “Stosh” recently joined Bungie officially after spending time involved in other capacities. KP drew the short straw and had to interrogate them about their deviant proclivities, super secrets, scrumptious sandwiches and the use of Mat Noguchi’s rage radiation as a source of warmth. Check it out.

Excellent online gaming magazine The Escapist has an article called The Wideload Way on Wideload Games this week. Those who have read previous articles focusing on Wideload’s outsourcing-heavy business model will find little new here. There’s a confirmation that Stubbs sold well enough to fund Wideload’s next project, but there’s still no information on what…

Captain Spark fired up his Halo dialogue website at the end of last month, upgrading to a new CMS– PHP-Fusion. Be sure to check it out, even though he admits the current design is a placeholder (now where have we heard that before?). He’s also working on an IWHBYD skull tutorial which I’m sure many…

Brannon Boren, of Boren’s Syndrome fame, laments on his blog that the Wikipedia entry on Bungie Studios casts doubt on the existence of the Halo Bible. Such a shame.

As of now, Rampancy.net is running on the latest and greatest stable version of the Drupal content management system, Drupal 4.7. This version has been out for some time, but just now supports all the contributed modules the site needs to run. Some features (like the gamertag database) are offline for the moment but should…