Author: Rampancy – Se7en Years Of Halo

Project Magma has announced the availability of a public beta of version 1.6 of Myth II. The update makes Myth II on the Mac a Universal application, running natively on PPC or Intel hardware, allows it to run in a window on Windows 2000 or XP, and many other new features and bug fixes. This…

Project Magma has announced the availability of a public beta of version 1.6 of Myth II. The update makes Myth II on the Mac a Universal application, running natively on PPC or Intel hardware, allows it to run in a window on Windows 2000 or XP, and many other new features and bug fixes. This…

Will Paget sent us this transcription of Peril, from the Halo 2 soundtrack, arranged for an orchestra. The attached archive contains a PrintMusic file and a PDF.

Since an announcement at Xbox.com appeared and was just as quickly removed, the Halo community has been awash in discussion about the apparent appointment of Neill Blomkamp as director of the silver screen adaptation of Halo. Neither Microsoft Game Studios nor Bungie Studios have chosen to comment on the announcement, although Blomkamp himself has granted…

Since an announcement at Xbox.com appeared and was just as quickly removed, the Halo community has been awash in discussion about the apparent appointment of Neill Blomkamp as director of the silver screen adaptation of Halo. Neither Microsoft Game Studios nor Bungie Studios have chosen to comment on the announcement, although Blomkamp himself has granted…

In this case, we’re talking about the upcoming Halo book by Eric Nylund, Ghosts of Coral (or of Onyx, depending on who you believe), but actually about Nylund’s first Halo outing, The Fall Of Reach, which according to an interview with Nylund at Firing Squad, Microsoft commissioned him to write in… you guessed it, seven…

… and to Windows and Linux as well. Appleswitch at Source.bungie.org reports that a Mac OS X conversion of the Marathon sequel scenario Rubicon, appropriately called Marathon: Rubicon X, has been released. It requires the latest version of the cross-platform Aleph One engine. Rubicon was originally released in 2001. The X conversion features new high…

Xbox.com yesterday put up an item apparently naming South African director of commercials and short films Neill Blomkamp as director of the Halo film. Several other sites, including HBO and GameDailyBiz, picked up on the item before Xbox.com pulled it. There is no mention of the item at all at Bungie.net. If the item is…

Yesterday I responded to Ozymandias’ reasons why he couldn’t endorse modchipping for adding new functionality, such as that supported by the excellent Xbox Media Center software, because it would harm Microsoft’s business model, in which they subsidize the hardware and depend on you buying software and accessories. The assumption here is that every hacker who…

Yesterday I mentioned Ozymandias’ blog entry where he lists several reasons why an Xbox owner might want to modchip his console, as well as why he, in his own personal opinion, apart from being a Microsoft employee, could not approve of such actions. The first was fairly clean-cut: because it enables piracy. Fair enough. Ozymandias…

The latest Bungie Spotlight is on former community member, current Bungie staffer Cunbelin, and his contributions to Halo 3: Well My most recent item was to remake the classic human crate, better, faster, stronger! Well better at least. I’ve got a long list of those kinds of items both to be brought up to the…

At first glance, this story probably will inspire a lot of “duh, so what” responses. After all, modchips are used to do lots of things to your Xbox console, nearly all of which Microsoft doesn’t want you to do. They can let you play illegally copied games. They can let you modify your Xbox in…

If you need any more proof that what goes around, comes around– usually to end up smacking you in the face when you turn around– read this story at Joystiq alleging that not making Halo 4 would be stupid. I saw the story linked at HBO. Interestingly enough, the only citation in the Joystiq story…

Spong says its sources at Microsoft indicate that a new, non-Halo Bungie game will be announced at X06 very soon: Speaking to a Microsoft source close to the management of the entire Xbox 360 project today, we were told that, “As far as things stand, Halo 3 is the last game [in the series] and…

We’re extremely late in mentioning this article, but Gamasutra did an interview with Wideload Games founder Alexander “The Man” Seropian last month as Part 2 of their Tour of Chicago. Seropian’s post-Bungie startup is based there, as Bungie was prior to the Microsoft buyout. The article talks about things Seropian likes to do besides playing…

Those who’ve complained that Rampancy hasn’t updated in quite some time are quite correct. While I’ve no excuse, I do have a reason, and the reason is that the most recent bit of information about Halo 3 has slowed to a trickle, and that trickle has now been over-analyzed, much as two boys with twigs…

Gravemind is not an easy character to figure out. From his initial appearance on the scene, as the rumored “big plant thingy” players who downloaded the leaked French copies of Halo 2 reported seeing, to his cliffhanger-inducing interrogation of Cortana, not much was revealed about him. Some fans can even be forgiving for questioning whether…

MBO pointed out an unusual Gamasutra postmortem article from last summer which I don’t remember seeing before. It’s not on a game itself, but of an update to a game. In this case, the 1.5 and 1.5.1 updates to Myth II produced by Project Magma. It’s a two-parter; one details what went right and the…

One of the best total conversions for Marathon, Tempus Irae, has gotten an Aleph One facelift: new high resolution textures, alternate soundtracks, netmaps, even a sequel– the works. Check it out at source.bungie.org.

Aleph One, the open-sourced version of Marathon for Windows, Linux and Mac OS, has a new release out. The HD QuickTime version of the Halo 3 trailer documentary is back up at Microsoft. KP profiles known Cortana-hater Jillybean at Bungie.net. Peter Moore told Major Nelson the Xbox 360 will get an update to add another…