Category: Halo News Items

Two interesting things happened at work today:1. Everyone was surprised when I answered a phone and politely told the person he had the wrong number.2. I get to give a talk at GDC next year.Hmm… well, they were interesting to me.

If you’re going to play in the Head to Head hopper, don’t be a dick and try to ruin the game if you’re losing. That measn you, PIDB17. Unless you just happened to have a shitty connection. Which you didn’t.Besides, one loss isn’t going to have a tremen…

I’ve always had trouble figuring out how to respond to detractors of Halo (and now Halo 2). On the one hand, it’s sold a crapload of copies. On the other hand, it’s hard to find a post on any forum about Halo that does not have its share of anti-fans.A…

http://bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=816618I didn’t realize my desk of entropy would evoke such a profound reaction.

Holy crap, I haven’t updated in more than two months? What the hell have I been doing?Oh, right. That.It’s really interesting to go from three months of crunch, seven days a week, 12-16 hours a day, back to a “normal” schedule of weekday only, 9-5 work…

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/press/0705/halo2.htm?level1=enushome&level2=newsticker&level3=xboxsolutionOne thing they didn’t mention was the 5 days and 40 GB of raw data I had to render out at least three separate times. Plus the tools I had to write to handle movies bigger than 2 GB.Random trivia for the hardcore: I rendered the movies at 1280×960, 30 fps. This is the best…

And so the month long work marathon begins. My wife is out of town until August, so that means I get to stay at work 16 hours a day. Hooray 😛

Water is your friend.If you happen to feel so weary that a bucket of coffee doesn’t help, try drinking a bucket of water. You’re probably dehydrated.An easier way to tell is to check the color of your urine when you pee. If it’s not clear, drink more w…

Especially when trying to shove a six foot ____ into a three inch ____.The blanks are left as an exercise for the reader.

Whee! No sleep and no fun make Matthew something something.I’m sure I’ll remember what a good night sleep feels like one of these days.

Someone took or misplaced my coffee maker.MAT SMASH!!!!!

And… bam.MSN

Go shakycam!Linky

I should stop reading this site so often, but I found this (and the first response) funny.It’s like reading bash.org sometimes 🙂

So I think it’s now quite obvious why I haven’t updated in a month or so.LinkySince I’d probably get severely disciplined by the Bungie Webmaster if I scooped bungie.net, I thought I might reminisce a little bit today. Gearbox finally released the HEK …

One of the great things about being me is that every once in a while I get to say “John Carmack is wrong.”[I actually said something more colorful at work.]In the programming GDC keynote this year, Carmack mentioned that (game) audio could be solved to…

It’s no secret that I hate most modern video games. Lately I have played three games that show what is right and what is wrong with video games today.First off, let’s talk about Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. This game has an extremely low frustrat…

It’s raining pretty hard right now in Redmond. You’d think that we’d all be hard at work on Halo 2, but no, everyone is looking at the pretty rainbow outside.

Did anyone else see Angel last night? Right at the end, it looked like a live-action version of the end of Xenogears.

Reimagined and its various forms. Holy chirst, can’t these people have the balls to say remake?