Category: Halo News Items
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Halo Music Video – Bring Me To Life
TheSparbiter put together another Halo music video – this time using the song ‘Bring Me To Life’ by Evanescence. It focuses a little more on Cortana’s story, but there’s plenty of Spartan action as well. Nice work! (mastrbiggy 07:04:33 UTC)
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You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out
After four years of hard work, Redshirt98 finally completed his airsoft Spartan Laser – the weapon functions and looks pretty much like the in-game model, minus the intense beam of directed electromagnetic radiation. There’s a video of the Splaser in a…
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Master Chief
Shane Blair sent word that he’s released ‘Master Chief’, an original song relating the saga of Halo. Really well-done! Great choices of video, and pretty impressive storytelling-via-song! Go watch.(Louis Wu 22:02:30 UTC)
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GSML – Invasion on Hushed Apprentice
The Great Smokey Mountain LANboree is over now – but at least one Invasion game lives on, thanks to YouTube. You can watch it on DBO, I guess (because Paddy was too lazy to post it here). I have an intense desire to fire up Reach right now…(Louis Wu …
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Comments are now disabled
I’ve turned off comments on the site, mainly because they were pretty much all spam, but also because no-one was really leaving any comments 🙂
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Immersion is a stupid word.
Every time I hear another game developer talk about “immersion” I want to vomit. Many horrible game decisions have been made in the name of “immersion.” Things like un-interruptive cutscenes, slow and unresponsive UI, annoying player character chatter,…
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“It’s a ceremony!” “It’s psychotic!”
One potentially fun aspect of GDC is how easy it can be to get into arguments between those who know what they are talking about and those who think they know what they’re talking about. (That’s a bit of an oversimplification; it’s actually arguing bet…
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Two week update
By now, I’m sure you have all heard about the new content we (Bungie) are releasing as both DLC on XBL and as a separate DVD. I’m not going to step much into the debate other than to point out the main reason for the DVD: get the update and new content…
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Because… you listen
Thoughts that I’ve had over the past three months:1. Is there a mechanism that can replace raw ability and talent with education?2. If a poorly designed game is fun, does it make sense to analyze the game design?3. Is the intent of methodology to repla…
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shunji 2004-12-04 08:09:40
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.
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F-cking rank whores
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…
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And then, “Fun With Dirt!”
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…
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I didn’t know you cared…
http://bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=816618I didn’t realize my desk of entropy would evoke such a profound reaction.
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It’s not the fall that kills you…
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…
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Halo 2: Bigger, Badder, Uncut.
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…