Category: Rampancy
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Halo Reach Ashes Piano Video
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…
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Anger, Sadness and Envy Episode 21: The Winter of our Discontingency
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…
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Anger, Sadness and Envy Episode 21: The Winter of our Discontingency
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…
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Child Neglect Is Not Gaming News
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…
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Beta 2 of Myth II 1.7.2 Posted
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.
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Bungie’s Next Title To Use Modified Halo Engine?
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…
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Moonshot Explores The Fallen Frontier
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,…
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Bungie To Make An MMOAG?
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…
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On The Dark Side Of The Moonshot
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…
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Birth Of A Spartan Piano Sheet Music
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…
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Forerunner Map Pack Issues
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…
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Reach Nominated For Best Soundtrack, Interactive Score
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…
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Forerunner Map Pack Official Announcement
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…
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Time to Dance – Halo Reach
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 “…
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Making Sequels That Don’t Suck
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 …