Author: Rampancy – Se7en Years Of Halo

Bungie has the Waaambulance, where people who have been banned from Halo 2 matchmaking write in nearly incomprehensible questions and complaints, and Bungie makes fun of them. I don’t have the power to ban players from Halo 2 matchmmaking, not that I would if I could. What I do have is some search logs that…

Ducain over at High Impact Halo put up a wish list for Halo 3. I thought I’d take some of his points and respond to them: ones I liked, and ones I didn’t. Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the notice. Click “read more” below on the front page for the entire text. read…

Games In Action gets to the bottom of the conspiracy that put KP in position to get Frankie’s coffee keep the Halo fan community abreast of Halo 3’s development. It’s a sordid tale of job applications and interviews that exposes the seamy underbelly of game development. Of course, working at Bungie isn’t all sushi farts…

The guy who shepherded the Halo novels through the labyrinthine halls of Microsoft, Eric Trautmann, has made an interesting blog post on storytelling in games. It started out as a review of the new Xbox 360 shooter Lost Planet, but took a u-turn somewhere and ended up with the conclusion that games, so far, are…

KP’s latest in weapons profiling focuses on the Covenant’s Type-2 Antipersonnel Fragmentation Grenade, or Spike Grenade. Even with all the info up close and personnel, we still have to settle for a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot for an image. Hey, how about some pictures, like we got for the Mongi?

Okay, this is a little obscure, but I thought it worth posting anyway. Mumbo Jumbo is a company that does so-called “casual games”. Mobile phone games, Flash games, puzzle games, game show conversions, card games. Some of it’s on Xbox Live Arcade. However, the name “Mumbo Jumbo” wasn’t always associated with such games. At one…

The Escapist is calling Bungie a great artist in their piece on how the gaming industry shamelessly pillages the film industry, especially in the area of science fiction. The concept of the article: to make a list of movies so influential on the games industry that, if they had not ever existed, the gaming industry…

When we heard whispers to expect something “soon” from Wideload, I’m sure nobody had this in mind. Translator Dmitri “Goblin” Puchkov, responsible for many of the best quality dubs of Western movies and television programs into Russian, including some hilarious spoof dubs of films like Star Wars Episode One and Shmatrica, a parody of The…

Halo3.com notes that the first way of getting into the Halo 3 public beta– the web registration form that offered any and all comers in the U.S. a chance to be chosen– has closed. Winners will be notified sometime this week. Those who don’t make it can still get in by buying a specially marked…

GameSpot has an item up that says Wideload Games, makers of Stubbs the Zombie for Mac, PC and Xbox, have applied for several new trademarks that may be connected to as-yet-unannounced game projects: Another trio of trademarks was filed for by Wideload Games, the development studio behind Stubbs the Zombie. The trademarks don’t appear to…

You know, because of the layers. Layers of detail, like the layers in Frankie’s latest Bungie Update. Between those layers are morsels of information: like the fact that every campaign level is now in the game, which is playable “from end to end”; like the fact that the usual levels of difficulty: easy, normal, heroic…

Project Magma, the guys who keep Myth multiplayer alive and provide patches so the game keeps running on updated operating systems, have launched a new website, Myth Vault, intended to be a catch-all archive for Myth-related files, including films, artworks, and even maps.

What Louis Wu says about the article “Inside Bungie” at EDGE magazine is one hundred percent correct; even those who have been peering at Bungie through spyglasses and telescopes for years can learn a lot of new things about the studio in this rare look behind the scenes. Go. Read. NOW.

Don’t call it a gun. In fact, don’t even call it a rifle. It isn’t even a weapon. It’s a system. The MA5C Individual Combat Weapon System. If I didn’t know better, I’d say that KP made that up himself when he penned the description of Halo 3’s default spawn weapon, that hybrid of Halo…

Due to one thing and another, including chetz, h4x, modified weapon spawns, beastly brute spiker dual-wielding, and the fact that Ferrex rulz and Staten droolz, the Halo 3 Multiplayer Team defeated the Bungie Community Team 2 games to 1 in the latest internal humpday. See KP’s writeup on Bungie.net for details.

Wideload Games’ Alexander “The Man” Seropian will deliver the keynote address at the Vancouver International Game Summit in May 2007, according to an announcement on MarketWire issued by Reboot Communications Ltd, organizers of the conference. Details on the conference are at the Reboot Conference site.

Just so viewers know, I’ve enabled an interstitial ad on the site. It’s the first such ad requested on the site, through the AdBrite service, which I haven’t actively used since mid-2005; I found that Google AdWords was sufficient to chip in enough small change to make me feel that the site isn’t just a…

Not even two weeks into the new year, and real life plus other circumstances have already conspired to let far too much Halo and Bungie material slide by without a mention. So here’s a quick list of what’s been going on: Community Shuffle Due to spam attacks, HBO’s forum has had to require users to…

With the onslaught of new Halo 3 information in the past few weeks, I’ve begun updated our Halo 3 FAQ. At the same time, I’m changing the way FAQ pages are stored and displayed. Currently, only the Halo 3 FAQ is in this system, but eventually it will be used for all FAQs. Instead of…

If you couldn’t register on Halo3.com the first time out, and the idea of buying Crackdown miffs you, then relax: there are still other ways to get into the Halo 3 beta to be held next spring. The Gamerscore Blog lists two new ways that US residents can get in: by buying Crackdown, by playing…