Category: Rampancy

Here is the usual transcription package: a PrintMusic file, a PDF, and a MIDI sound file, for the 2:28 long third movement of Delta Halo Suite from the second volume of the Halo 2 soundtrack, entitled Leonidas. As usual, login or register to download.

With the three days to get in your three hours of Halo 2 on Xbox Live play on an Xbox 360 in already passed, and web registration– apparently– about to open, Halo 2 players are poised over their keyboards to attempt to become one of the 13,333 lucky entrants into Phase Two of the selection…

What’s the most accurate thing you can think of? Probably this laser. The answer is a weapon so versatile it can snipe infantry or fry vehicles. It even makes coffee at a thousand yards. It is the Spartan Laser, the heavily-censored subject of KP’s latest treatise on the weapons and vehicles in Halo 3.

The Power Of Ten is a simple idea: make a Myth map using only ten monster tags. Check their site for official rules. Thanks to PlayMyth for the announcement.

Let’s face it: if the Halo 3 Public Beta is our new Great Journey, then the Prophet of Truth is a liar, because some of us are going to be left behind. Not everybody who wants to can get in. If everybody could get in, there’d be no difference between the beta test and actually…

Bungie.net has a new moderator, Evilcam, and as a reward, he gets an interview with KP. Let’s hope that satisfaction in a job well done is reward enough.

Bungie has the Waaambulance, where people who have been banned from Halo 2 matchmaking write in nearly incomprehensible questions and complaints, and Bungie makes fun of them. I don’t have the power to ban players from Halo 2 matchmmaking, not that I would if I could. What I do have is some search logs that…

Ducain over at High Impact Halo put up a wish list for Halo 3. I thought I’d take some of his points and respond to them: ones I liked, and ones I didn’t. Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the notice. Click “read more” below on the front page for the entire text. read…

Games In Action gets to the bottom of the conspiracy that put KP in position to get Frankie’s coffee keep the Halo fan community abreast of Halo 3’s development. It’s a sordid tale of job applications and interviews that exposes the seamy underbelly of game development. Of course, working at Bungie isn’t all sushi farts…

The guy who shepherded the Halo novels through the labyrinthine halls of Microsoft, Eric Trautmann, has made an interesting blog post on storytelling in games. It started out as a review of the new Xbox 360 shooter Lost Planet, but took a u-turn somewhere and ended up with the conclusion that games, so far, are…

KP’s latest in weapons profiling focuses on the Covenant’s Type-2 Antipersonnel Fragmentation Grenade, or Spike Grenade. Even with all the info up close and personnel, we still have to settle for a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot for an image. Hey, how about some pictures, like we got for the Mongi?

Okay, this is a little obscure, but I thought it worth posting anyway. Mumbo Jumbo is a company that does so-called “casual games”. Mobile phone games, Flash games, puzzle games, game show conversions, card games. Some of it’s on Xbox Live Arcade. However, the name “Mumbo Jumbo” wasn’t always associated with such games. At one…

The Escapist is calling Bungie a great artist in their piece on how the gaming industry shamelessly pillages the film industry, especially in the area of science fiction. The concept of the article: to make a list of movies so influential on the games industry that, if they had not ever existed, the gaming industry…

When we heard whispers to expect something “soon” from Wideload, I’m sure nobody had this in mind. Translator Dmitri “Goblin” Puchkov, responsible for many of the best quality dubs of Western movies and television programs into Russian, including some hilarious spoof dubs of films like Star Wars Episode One and Shmatrica, a parody of The…

Halo3.com notes that the first way of getting into the Halo 3 public beta– the web registration form that offered any and all comers in the U.S. a chance to be chosen– has closed. Winners will be notified sometime this week. Those who don’t make it can still get in by buying a specially marked…

GameSpot has an item up that says Wideload Games, makers of Stubbs the Zombie for Mac, PC and Xbox, have applied for several new trademarks that may be connected to as-yet-unannounced game projects: Another trio of trademarks was filed for by Wideload Games, the development studio behind Stubbs the Zombie. The trademarks don’t appear to…

You know, because of the layers. Layers of detail, like the layers in Frankie’s latest Bungie Update. Between those layers are morsels of information: like the fact that every campaign level is now in the game, which is playable “from end to end”; like the fact that the usual levels of difficulty: easy, normal, heroic…

Project Magma, the guys who keep Myth multiplayer alive and provide patches so the game keeps running on updated operating systems, have launched a new website, Myth Vault, intended to be a catch-all archive for Myth-related files, including films, artworks, and even maps.

What Louis Wu says about the article “Inside Bungie” at EDGE magazine is one hundred percent correct; even those who have been peering at Bungie through spyglasses and telescopes for years can learn a lot of new things about the studio in this rare look behind the scenes. Go. Read. NOW.

Don’t call it a gun. In fact, don’t even call it a rifle. It isn’t even a weapon. It’s a system. The MA5C Individual Combat Weapon System. If I didn’t know better, I’d say that KP made that up himself when he penned the description of Halo 3’s default spawn weapon, that hybrid of Halo…