Category: Rampancy

Blackstar, Miguel Chavez and Cody Miller take a look at the Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta in this video installment of Anger, Sadness & Envy. – Right Click on Links to Download – ASE 16 Widescreen 360 SD size – Download ASE 16 Widescreen 720 HD size – Download (Apple QuickTime Required)

Blackstar, Miguel Chavez and Cody Miller take a look at the Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta in this video installment of Anger, Sadness & Envy. – Right Click on Links to Download – ASE 16 Widescreen 360 SD size – Download ASE 16 Widescreen 720 HD size…

Just a quick note; the podcast pages have been slightly reorganized to clear up some things that were confusing. We’ve always uploaded an enhanced AAC file in an M4A container first; ASE is authored in GarageBand, and this format, readable by iTunes, s…

Narcogen and Blackstar, together with Miguel Chavez, look forward to the Halo Reach Beta coming May 3, 2010; wrap up some final thoughts on Halo 3: ODST, and reminisce about the retirement of Halo 2 multiplayer on Xbox Live. Show Highlights: Look, Wend…

Narcogen and Blackstar, together with Miguel Chavez, look forward to the Halo Reach Beta coming May 3, 2010; wrap up some final thoughts on Halo 3: ODST, and reminisce about the retirement of Halo 2 multiplayer on Xbox Live. Show Highlights: Look, Wendy, I Can Fly What Is The Primary Main Objective These Are Not…

A deeper look at ODST– what worked and what didn’t in this small-team, short-cycle Bungie experiment that landed with the profile of a fat expansion and the pricetag of a discounted full title. Show Highlights: Keep On Truckin’ GamesRadar: 7/10 Was OD…

A deeper look at ODST– what worked and what didn’t in this small-team, short-cycle Bungie experiment that landed with the profile of a fat expansion and the pricetag of a discounted full title. Show Highlights: Keep On Truckin’ GamesRadar: 7/10 Was ODST a Good Idea? Demise of Chronicles Comes With Beta (or The Crackdown Factor)…

A deeper look at ODST– what worked and what didn’t in this small-team, short-cycle Bungie experiment that landed with the profile of a fat expansion and the pricetag of a discounted full title. Show Highlights: Keep On Truckin’ GamesRadar: 7/10 Was ODST a Good Idea? Demise of Chronicles Comes With Beta (or The Crackdown Factor)…

A look at the first part of Halo 3: ODST, covering changes in gameplay as well as new characters and settings, and the interconnections between ODST and the rest of the Halo universe. Show Highlights: Firefly Reunion Tour Not Looking At Her Gear Change…

A look at the first part of Halo 3: ODST, covering changes in gameplay as well as new characters and settings, and the interconnections between ODST and the rest of the Halo universe. Show Highlights: Firefly Reunion Tour Not Looking At Her Gear Changes: Fall Damage, Health & VISR A Dark And Stormy Night The…

Blackstar of Blackstar Productions and Narcogen of Bungie fansite Rampancy.net wrap up some loose ends from Halo 3 and look forward to Halo 3: ODST. Also in this episode: special guests, Bungie’s official #1 fan, Miguel “Freewill” Chavez of Bungie fans…

“Flippant”, from Bungie’s game Marathon. Some notes about this arrangement: a. Was scored using Sibelius b. Arranged for Drum Set, Piano, Flute/Voice, Violoncello c. Included files: .mid, .mp3, .pdf, .sib (Sibelius). Let me know what you think!

Jaime “Case” Griesemer, longtime Bungie designer, gave a talk at GDC about game balance in Halo, with some specific mention of the sniper rifle: Spectacle, too, is important to keeping players in flow, with the sniper rifle creating a contrail and so…

From the Ashes for Eb Alto Saxophone.

So Bungie has filed an application for a trademark on “Bungie Aerospace” with the accompanying image. The application is classified as various things somehow related to computer gaming (which is not particularly surprising) and accompanied by the image you see here. Attackofthefanboy noticed the application and it was reposted at the website of Blast magazine…

The GameWit blog at the Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA) thinks that the amicable separation of Bungie and Microsoft might be a good object lesson for Activision in its current conflict with the “hopes to be something other than just the Call of Duty” developer Infinity Ward, which was incidentally formed by developers jumping ship…

Tied the Leader’s Hoovaloov does an excellent job with this detailed video commentary on the Halo Reach multiplayer beta trailer. Includes some very good predictions about the new multiplayer modes (Invasion, Arena, and Headhunter) as well as the Loadout feature.

Bungie’s latest “Big Reveal” is the multiplayer teaser for the Reach Beta, opening to owners of Halo 3: ODST on May 3, 2010.

First episode of the new season of Master Chief Theater 3000… which might not feature the Master Chief, since it seems to be based on ODST…

It’s not hard to see the appeal of the idea of the Firefight mode in Halo 3: ODST. If you follow Bungie’s shooter roots back to Marathon, and to the PC shooter that really kicked off the modern era, Doom, you can see the start of it. Doom didn’t have discrete multiplayer ‘levels’ the way…