Category: Rampancy

Here at Rampancy, we’ll be starting a new series on the Anger, Sadness and Envy podcast: a video Let’s Play series of Bungie’s classic science fiction shooter, Marathon, as played using the modern Aleph One engine under Mac OS X. All three games in th…

The free modernization of Pathways Into Darkness by Man Up Time Studios (now in the App Store) got a mention on the RetroMacCast, which is, unsurprisingly, a podcast about retro Macintosh stuff. PiD gets a mention in the April 13 episode.

Through the efforts of Man Up Time Studios, Bruce “Hippieman” Morrison and Mark “Have Blue” Levin, the classic Bungie FPS game Pathways Into Darkness lives again, available for free in the Apple App Store for computers running version 10.6 or higher …

Project Magma has announced a public beta of the first major new revision to the Myth II engine in three years: version 1.8.0. If you’re the adventurous kind, and already have 1.7.2 installed, head on over to The Tain and pick up the beta version to …

Craig Hardgrove, who is a planetary scientist working for JPL and also a Bungie fan from quite aways back, has written an article for Guardians of Destiny, talking about why he loves Halo, why …

Here’s my arrangement of the Halo Theme for plucked orchestra. The file includes: mandolin 1 mandolin 2 mandola guitar bass percussion direction I hope you’ll enjoy! Ask me if you have any questions about my sheets

GameSpot has posted the entirety of Bungie’s GDC talk, given by Joe Staten and Christopher Barrett, about building Destiny’s world and characters, over in their YouTube channel. Honestly, stuff like this– showing the depth and breadth of thought that…

DestinyTracker (blog, YouTube channel) put up this copy of another video Bungie showed during the GDC presentation by Barrett and Staten; a short timelapse sequence showing the editing of a moon base location in Grognok, the Destiny world editor. …

I’ve added a gallery of screen captures from Bungie’s GDC 2013 presentation. Whenever possible I’ve left out concept art and other images that have previously been released, focusing on presentation slides and other materials that have not been seen …

Hi This is my full transcription of ‘To Galaxy’ from Halo 4, for piano. There’s quite a lot of action in the left hand, so it might be a bit tired afterwards Enjoy!

Bungie’s latest Community Focus features the Guardians of Destiny, makers of the excellent Guardian Radio podcast. Bungie also points out that the latest Guardian Radio episode features JPL sci…

Following Bungie’s presentation at GDC by Joe Staten and Christopher Barrett, which you can read about at Bungie.net or watch over at GameSpot I’ve updated the Destiny concept art gallery and a…

This video was shown as part of Bungie’s GDC presentation on March 28, 2013.

In the Bungie Mail Sack this week, Deej addresses the burning question: Is there bacon in Destiny? I can neither confirm nor deny if swine survived the collapse of the Golden Age. Humanity’…

Before Halo on the Xbox, before Oni on the PlayStation 2, there was Super Marathon on the ill-fated Bandai Pippin. Worth a mention today for a couple of reasons– Bungie’s David “Evil Otto” Candland pointed it out today on Twitter, and the Activision …

Umbra Software, makers of Umbra 3, have put up a blog post about how their middleware is being used for world creation and rendering in Bungie’s Destiny. They’ll be doing a presentation on it at GDC this year as well.

Bungie’s latest Community Focus article is on Ready Up Live. They’ve got a YouTube channel with some good Destiny videos in it, check it out.

Nope, not doing one. Bungie’s latest Mail Sack is up. Here’s a highlight: MastaSin In Destiny, can we play as the aliens or are we locked to the human race? And if we are, why are we locked t…

I’ve opened a new Twitter account for site and gaming news, @Narcogen.

Claude Errera has announced that DBO is now building their Destiny Video Archive. Right now what’s there are the two official vids, with more stuff to come.