Category: Rampancy
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The Halo Bible Does Exist… Doesn’t It?
Brannon Boren, of Boren’s Syndrome fame, laments on his blog that the Wikipedia entry on Bungie Studios casts doubt on the existence of the Halo Bible. Such a shame.
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Rampancy Upgraded To Drupal 4.7
As of now, Rampancy.net is running on the latest and greatest stable version of the Drupal content management system, Drupal 4.7. This version has been out for some time, but just now supports all the contributed modules the site needs to run. Some features (like the gamertag database) are offline for the moment but should…
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Reading Between The Lines
Normally the very entertaining Halo Story Page is rather like the equivalent of the Bungie fan community putting on funny costumes, lounging in easy chairs and sipping snifters of brandy while contemplating the treachery of Cortana, the inscrutableness of Gravemind and the machismo of Keyes family officers of both genders. Wait, it’s not the equivalent…
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Reading Between The Lines
Normally the very entertaining Halo Story Page is rather like the equivalent of the Bungie fan community putting on funny costumes, lounging in easy chairs and sipping snifters of brandy while contemplating the treachery of Cortana, the inscrutableness of Gravemind and the machismo of Keyes family officers of both genders. Wait, it’s not the equivalent…
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Magma Releases Public Beta Of Myth II 1.6 Patch
Project Magma has announced the availability of a public beta of version 1.6 of Myth II. The update makes Myth II on the Mac a Universal application, running natively on PPC or Intel hardware, allows it to run in a window on Windows 2000 or XP, and many other new features and bug fixes. This…
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Magma Releases Public Beta Of Myth II 1.6 Patch
Project Magma has announced the availability of a public beta of version 1.6 of Myth II. The update makes Myth II on the Mac a Universal application, running natively on PPC or Intel hardware, allows it to run in a window on Windows 2000 or XP, and many other new features and bug fixes. This…
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Peril for Orchestra (peril_orch.zip by Will Paget)
Will Paget sent us this transcription of Peril, from the Halo 2 soundtrack, arranged for an orchestra. The attached archive contains a PrintMusic file and a PDF.
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Is Blomkamp A Good Choice Or Not?
Since an announcement at Xbox.com appeared and was just as quickly removed, the Halo community has been awash in discussion about the apparent appointment of Neill Blomkamp as director of the silver screen adaptation of Halo. Neither Microsoft Game Studios nor Bungie Studios have chosen to comment on the announcement, although Blomkamp himself has granted…
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Is Blomkamp A Good Choice Or Not?
Since an announcement at Xbox.com appeared and was just as quickly removed, the Halo community has been awash in discussion about the apparent appointment of Neill Blomkamp as director of the silver screen adaptation of Halo. Neither Microsoft Game Studios nor Bungie Studios have chosen to comment on the announcement, although Blomkamp himself has granted…
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A Halo Novel In Seven Weeks?
In this case, we’re talking about the upcoming Halo book by Eric Nylund, Ghosts of Coral (or of Onyx, depending on who you believe), but actually about Nylund’s first Halo outing, The Fall Of Reach, which according to an interview with Nylund at Firing Squad, Microsoft commissioned him to write in… you guessed it, seven…
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Rubicon Crosses Over To OS X…
… and to Windows and Linux as well. Appleswitch at Source.bungie.org reports that a Mac OS X conversion of the Marathon sequel scenario Rubicon, appropriately called Marathon: Rubicon X, has been released. It requires the latest version of the cross-platform Aleph One engine. Rubicon was originally released in 2001. The X conversion features new high…
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Halo Director Named… Or Not
Xbox.com yesterday put up an item apparently naming South African director of commercials and short films Neill Blomkamp as director of the Halo film. Several other sites, including HBO and GameDailyBiz, picked up on the item before Xbox.com pulled it. There is no mention of the item at all at Bungie.net. If the item is…
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Microsoft And Modchips, Part III: Imports
Yesterday I responded to Ozymandias’ reasons why he couldn’t endorse modchipping for adding new functionality, such as that supported by the excellent Xbox Media Center software, because it would harm Microsoft’s business model, in which they subsidize the hardware and depend on you buying software and accessories. The assumption here is that every hacker who…
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Microsoft And Modchips, Part II: Homebrew Software
Yesterday I mentioned Ozymandias’ blog entry where he lists several reasons why an Xbox owner might want to modchip his console, as well as why he, in his own personal opinion, apart from being a Microsoft employee, could not approve of such actions. The first was fairly clean-cut: because it enables piracy. Fair enough. Ozymandias…
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Cunbelin Building Bungie Better Crates
The latest Bungie Spotlight is on former community member, current Bungie staffer Cunbelin, and his contributions to Halo 3: Well My most recent item was to remake the classic human crate, better, faster, stronger! Well better at least. I’ve got a long list of those kinds of items both to be brought up to the…
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Microsoft And Modchips, Part I: Piracy
At first glance, this story probably will inspire a lot of “duh, so what” responses. After all, modchips are used to do lots of things to your Xbox console, nearly all of which Microsoft doesn’t want you to do. They can let you play illegally copied games. They can let you modify your Xbox in…
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Recursive Stupidity Strikes Gaming Press
If you need any more proof that what goes around, comes around– usually to end up smacking you in the face when you turn around– read this story at Joystiq alleging that not making Halo 4 would be stupid. I saw the story linked at HBO. Interestingly enough, the only citation in the Joystiq story…
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Rumor Mill: New Bungie Property At X06
Spong says its sources at Microsoft indicate that a new, non-Halo Bungie game will be announced at X06 very soon: Speaking to a Microsoft source close to the management of the entire Xbox 360 project today, we were told that, “As far as things stand, Halo 3 is the last game [in the series] and…
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Greatest Time To Be In Games– Ever
We’re extremely late in mentioning this article, but Gamasutra did an interview with Wideload Games founder Alexander “The Man” Seropian last month as Part 2 of their Tour of Chicago. Seropian’s post-Bungie startup is based there, as Bungie was prior to the Microsoft buyout. The article talks about things Seropian likes to do besides playing…
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Story Page Gadfly Bites Two, Leaves Dog Alone
Those who’ve complained that Rampancy hasn’t updated in quite some time are quite correct. While I’ve no excuse, I do have a reason, and the reason is that the most recent bit of information about Halo 3 has slowed to a trickle, and that trickle has now been over-analyzed, much as two boys with twigs…