Category: Rampancy

Rockslider says he was inspired by the Rampancy podcast episode on the Halo 3 level, Floodgate (part one, part two) to go back and write a detailed commentary on his own playthrough at Bad Cyborg. Very fun read, check it out! UPDATE:Rockslider points …

From Marius.net comes the rather unexpected news that a new, native port of Myth II v1.7.2 is coming to Linux, produced by ProjectMagma. It scores over the older port produced by Loki Software in that it is intended to be network compatible with the ex…

According to Googlefight, Halo Reach IS Canon.

The following is a crosspost from the HBO forum, in a discussion started by Cody Miller about retcons of Halo’s continuity by the latest game in the series, Reach. Some fans (namely Hawaiian Pig) take exception to David “Evil Otto” Candland, Bungie UI …

Blackstar and Narcogen take a look through the second playable level of Halo: Reach, in which you may go left, or you may go right, but either way, you end up backtracking and then going inside before it starts raining Covenant corvettes. – Right Click…

I put up a video on youtube if you guys are interested. Have a look and tell me what you think! It is my transcription of Ashes from the Halo Reach Soundtrack. This is the updated version and you can find the new sheet music by clicking on the link bel…

This time on Anger, Sadness and Envy, Narcogen, Blackstar and Cody Miller take a look at the first level of Halo: Reach, Winter Contingency. Show highlights include: ODST was the only Halo game that started with a text crawl. Reach is the only one that…

This time on Anger, Sadness and Envy, Narcogen, Blackstar and Cody Miller take a look at the first level of Halo: Reach, Winter Contingency. Show highlights include: ODST was the only Halo game that started with a text crawl. Reach is the only one that…

I would like to propose that the gaming press stop posting stories like this one: Man Let Son Suffocate Because He Was Playing WoW Before I go on, I’d like to say that I do not now, nor have I ever, worked in the gaming industry in any capacity. Any n…

The Tain has posted Myth II 1.7.2b2 in several flavors: Windows, Mac Universal, and Mac PowerPC. It’s not an installer, just the application itself, so you need to have Myth II 1.7.1 already installed. For the terminally curious, there’s a changelog.

Not that it would surprise anyone, but an ex-Bungie employee recently posted in their online resume (not saying who or linking, sorry) that they worked on Bungie’s as-yet unnanounced Next Project, and that it used a “modified version” of the Halo engin…

Moonshot Games, featuring Bungie alums Michael Bastien, Damián Isla and Rob Stokes, used Pax East this year as a launchpad for their new game, a 2D sidescrolling shooter called Fallen Frontier. They’ve put up some concept art, an announcement trailer,…

Back when Halo was first announced, there were hints of a persistent, online world. Last year at GDC, Bungie’s own Joseph Staten hinted at such a thing. Now it seems like this year’s GDC presentation by David Aldridge may have tipped Bungie’s hand; the…

Remember Moonshot Games? I know, I know… I’m lucky if I can remember what I did yesterday, but Moonshot Games is the outfit founded by Bungie alumni Michael Bastien, Damián Isla and Rob Stokes. They announced they were going into a “quiet period” in…

Finally, after several months, here they are. I based it on this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zLLVrElkCo&playnext=1&list=PL7523C201F344A09B I don’t know if they’re right; I’m new at doing sheet music. I’ll add the MIDI file later. Mid…

UPDATE: We have agreed to partner up in the makings of the Forerunner Map Pack and have split them into two parts. Part 1 is complete and can be found and downloaded here: http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Default.aspx?player=zonyrecon954&sg=0 Par…

The Game Audio Network Guild has announced its final nominees for the 9th annual awards, to be held this upcoming March 3 in San Francisco, CA. Reach is up for a total of four awards: Best Soundtrack, Best Interactive Score, Best Vocal – Choral (for “H…

Information on the Forerunner Map Pack Part 2 can be found here. The Forerunner Map Pack Part 2 will feature 3 multiplayer ready maps created by me (YoungSykotic182) along with 1 bonus map. All maps will support all gametypes except Invasion and Race v…

This the song from the Halo: Reach level “The Package.” The song starts at 3:30 and ends at 5:15 (although I included the ending to this) In the game, this plays while you are defending Dr. Halsey’s lab (a Firefight-like scenario on the Firefight map “…

This VGChartz article bugged me as an example of bad and sometimes contradictory advice. Lesson 1 – Don’t Take Six Years to Make Your Sequel Gran Turismo 4: 89.61% Gran Turismo 5: 84.69% First of all, a MetaCritic GameRankings score (why is he using …