Category: Rampancy

Due to one thing and another, including chetz, h4x, modified weapon spawns, beastly brute spiker dual-wielding, and the fact that Ferrex rulz and Staten droolz, the Halo 3 Multiplayer Team defeated the Bungie Community Team 2 games to 1 in the latest internal humpday. See KP’s writeup on Bungie.net for details.

Wideload Games’ Alexander “The Man” Seropian will deliver the keynote address at the Vancouver International Game Summit in May 2007, according to an announcement on MarketWire issued by Reboot Communications Ltd, organizers of the conference. Details on the conference are at the Reboot Conference site.

Just so viewers know, I’ve enabled an interstitial ad on the site. It’s the first such ad requested on the site, through the AdBrite service, which I haven’t actively used since mid-2005; I found that Google AdWords was sufficient to chip in enough small change to make me feel that the site isn’t just a…

Not even two weeks into the new year, and real life plus other circumstances have already conspired to let far too much Halo and Bungie material slide by without a mention. So here’s a quick list of what’s been going on: Community Shuffle Due to spam attacks, HBO’s forum has had to require users to…

With the onslaught of new Halo 3 information in the past few weeks, I’ve begun updated our Halo 3 FAQ. At the same time, I’m changing the way FAQ pages are stored and displayed. Currently, only the Halo 3 FAQ is in this system, but eventually it will be used for all FAQs. Instead of…

If you couldn’t register on Halo3.com the first time out, and the idea of buying Crackdown miffs you, then relax: there are still other ways to get into the Halo 3 beta to be held next spring. The Gamerscore Blog lists two new ways that US residents can get in: by buying Crackdown, by playing…

Almost five years to the day after the first HBO LAN Party, Louis Wu held “Deadly Night”. Accounts from attendees Jillybean and retsamolah and Ma1agate are in the HBO forum, along with a a video of the retsamolah vs Schooly-D grudge match. Mintz put his own writeup at the Hushed Casket, including an especially helpful…

Since some HBO forumgoers were kind enough to hold open the thread for me, I’m now morally obligated to deliver the goods on the Brute documentary. Given that it is longer and more up-front with its new content than the TV ad, I think a frame by frame analysis, in most places, is unwarranted, so…

Since some HBO forumgoers were kind enough to hold open the thread for me, I’m now morally obligated to deliver the goods on the Brute documentary. Given that it is longer and more up-front with its new content than the TV ad, I think a frame by frame analysis, in most places, is unwarranted, so…

HaloDev has put up the first of in a series of “Feature Focus” articles. This one, by Talin, is accompanied by a very complex render done by Talin and Veegie and covers the technique of normal mapping to add the appearance of detail to textured polygons. Veegie also produced another, more sedate image of an…

HaloDev has put up the first of in a series of “Feature Focus” articles. This one, by Talin, is accompanied by a very complex render done by Talin and Veegie and covers the technique of normal mapping to add the appearance of detail to textured polygons. Veegie also produced another, more sedate image of an…

Xbox Live is telling you to walk away from the television set and spend time with your friends and family in the real world this holiday season. At least, that’s the message one might infer from the fact that for several hours now, subscribers can connect to the services to browse the Marketplace or use…

Xbox Live is telling you to walk away from the television set and spend time with your friends and family in the real world this holiday season. At least, that’s the message one might infer from the fact that for several hours now, subscribers can connect to the services to browse the Marketplace or use…

Trakan, a moderator at the Cheap Ass Gamer forum, has posted scans of an ad for the upcoming Xbox 360 game, Crackdown, in Gamepro magazine. According to the scan, “specially marked boxes” of Crackdown will include an invitation to the Halo 3 multiplayer beta. This seems to be the first sighting in North America of…

Trakan, a moderator at the Cheap Ass Gamer forum, has posted scans of an ad for the upcoming Xbox 360 game, Crackdown, in Gamepro magazine. According to the scan, “specially marked boxes” of Crackdown will include an invitation to the Halo 3 multiplayer beta. This seems to be the first sighting in North America of…

Although the track “Siege of Madrigal” is actually from Bungie’s earlier RTS game, Myth, it also appears in a hidden spot in the Halo level “Assault on the Control Room”. If you fly a Banshee to one of the ledges high above the pyramid structure at the end of that level, and stand on the…

Although the track “Siege of Madrigal” is actually from Bungie’s earlier RTS game, Myth, it also appears in a hidden spot in the Halo level “Assault on the Control Room”. If you fly a Banshee to one of the ledges high above the pyramid structure at the end of that level, and stand on the…

This one is machine and nerve, and will make a good tree-trimming; This one is but flesh and faith… and will get coal inside his stocking. Have a Merry Christmas… we’d rather not piss this thing off.

This one is machine and nerve, and will make a good tree-trimming; This one is but flesh and faith… and will get coal inside his stocking. Have a Merry Christmas… we’d rather not piss this thing off.

Spartan182 discusses in his blog the possibility of plasma energy swords being dual-wieldable in Halo 3, based on suggestions in the Brute video documentary. One might think this would make such characters a bit too powerful, although I’m not really sure how carrying two instant-kill weapons really makes a difference unless you can lunge in…