Mike Rouse, of Machine-Enema, submitted ‘Pie, Chapter 1’ to the MPRRS yesterday. It passed, handily; it’s different from a lot of machinima out there. It has a powerful storyline, and a clever use of mods. The video has a distinctive (and intentional) look to it; it adds nicely to the atmosphere of the film. It’s rather large – almost 11 minutes, weighing in at a bit over 120 mb in either WMP9 or QuickTime formats – but absolutely worth the download. Grab a copy.(Louis Wu 14:30:14 UTC)
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VGL Hollywood Bowl Details
The Video Games Live website has a new press release that contains a list of all the ‘industry luminaries’ that will be present at the VGL Hollywood Bowl show on Thursday night. If you were on the fence about going… check this out.(Louis Wu 14:18:41 UTC)
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RT: Who Watches the Watchmen?
Today’s comic deals with something that has affected every single one of us in the office – Burnie’s placement on the TSA Watchlist. It sucks. Apparently just travelling with him makes you an accomplice to whatever fiendish and dastardly schemes he’s no…
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Building something with an impact
Dean Takahashi spent some time with Hamilton Chu, who was the producer for both Halo and Halo 2, before leaving to help found a new studio called Giant Bite. (We mentioned them in March.) He talks about the future of the new studio, and a bit about what made Halo and Halo 2 special. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 14:10:06 UTC)
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For Some, Life After Bungie Bites
Dean Takahashi caught up with Hamilton Chu of Giant Bite to talk about life after Halo. Chu spent three and a half years working on Halo; before that, he was part of the Oni team.
Now, he and Bungie alum Michael Evans are cofounders of Giant Bite, which is working on a project but is mum so far on the details. What he would mention, though, is what he took from the work on Halo and how he wants ot to apply at Giant Bite:
“It’s hard to describe why players enjoy Halo,” he said. “All these things work together and the core mechanics just feel so good. The stuff we did with the controls. The art design made you feel the right way. It all works together.”
“All of us want to bring the great things we learned from past experiences,” he said. “We want to build the quality and the team and the culture. Building it ourselves is intriguing and rewarding for us. The experience of building Halo and the impact it had on players. That was fun and we want to build event-type products again. We want to build something that will have an impact.”
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Better than Sock Puppets
A couple of weeks ago, CVG interviewed Matt Hullum of Rooster Teeth about Red vs Blue – 3Suns just found it today. Go read!(Louis Wu 04:14:38 UTC)
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So Much Stabbing, So Little Time
Game-Spectrum, purporting to cover the entire spectrum of gaming, gets a nice interview, along with threats of physical violence, with its interview of Bungie’s own Kevin “KP” Paul, covering his turn-ons, turn-offs, and how he sleeps at night knowing all that stuff about Halo that we’ll never even know we don’t know.
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StickyDooms FTW
Jack Gamber stopped by to let us know that he’d interviewed Kevin Paul, Bungie’s newest Content Munkie, over at Game-Spectrum.com. Learn a little more about the man who would as soon stab you in the face as tell you about Halo 3!(Louis Wu 01:05:47 UTC)
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Hard to Beat
MLGPro.com has a closeup on Karma, and his mastery of Warlock in a 1v1 situation. Fun read! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 01:02:19 UTC)
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Christopher Walken Would Approve.
Over on Bungie.net, there’s an interview with Tommy Tallarico, in preparation for Thursday night’s Video Games Live concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Sounds like it’s gonna rock! (Louis Wu 00:58:38 UTC)
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How NOT to write an article
Heh – Games.net has a ‘Winners & Losers‘ column in which they praise (or take to task) gaming articles around the net; they hammer GameDaily for an article entitled ‘Five Reasons Why Halo 3 Might Suck‘. I gotta say – I’m behind ’em on this one.(Louis Wu 00:55:55 UTC)
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Video Games Live! in Hollywood
It’s like a sonic cathedral of sound! Halo 3’s trailer music is just one of the live, orchestrated pieces being blasted out of the aural amphitheater known as the Hollywood Bowl. It’s your chance to see and hear a musical spectacular with special guests. It’s Video Games Live.
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Weekly Porridge #36: Lamb of Pod
Quality Jeverage and Painkilla are back again to talk about the All-Stars and their recent display of power and might. It also strays into conversations about nothing and sophisticated magazines. How do they go from the All-Stars to such different subjects? You’ll just have to read it and find out. More talk in the forums.
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Weekly Porridge #36: Lamb of Pod
Quality Jeverage and Painkilla are back again to talk about the All-Stars and their recent display of power and might. It also strays into conversations about nothing and sophisticated magazines. How do they go from the All-Stars to such different subjects? You’ll just have to read it and find out. More talk in the forums.
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H3 Concept Art?
Paul Maestri writes to say Halo Heads 7 is now posted… for the second time in a day, I’m speechless. You decide.(Louis Wu 20:34:27 UTC)
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soundspoof – making fun of hate
Brad from soundspoof points out that his site (which collects conversations with XBL loudmouths, especially as they talk to recorded snippets of Dr. Phil and Mr. Rogers) now has 174 recordings – this one went up today. Go explore!(Louis Wu 19:01:19 UTC)
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Halo News 6
YouTube version | iPod version
Here it is episode 6. Immortal Three has some tips for you online players on how to not make your team mad, FOLLOW THEM!!! Big shout out to painkilla05 for the idea for the second story and also to sunnylake, Norcal9one6, and Butt Nacho for stepping up for anchors.
Follow the discussion in the forums.
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Stream the latest Podtacular show from your PC to your Xbox360
Have an Xbox360 and a PC? Want to listen to Podtacular on your 360? Here’s an easy new way to do it. What’s cool is it automatically updates the podcast too, so you always have the most recent show to listen to! Here’s an explanation of what it does from the xbstream web site:
XB Stream automatically downloads and converts text based content feeds into images that can be viewed from the media>pictures>computer blade and hear audio podcasts/blogcasts from the media>music>computer blade. Content feeds are automatically managed by the software so you are always given fresh feeds, and older feeds are automatically deleted. Audio feeds show up as playlists and can be listened to while playing your favorite games!
Of course you can’t listen to it while playing Halo, which sucks, but at least you can listen to it while playing a 360 game. (EDIT: Apparently you can! See the how in the comments) By the way, don’t download anything before version 1.1 of this software or it will fill up your hard drive. What do you guys think of xbstream?
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Making it more funner
Words fail me. Slashdot points to an interview at Aeropause that… never mind, go read it. Words fail me.(Louis Wu 17:51:57 UTC)
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Halo News 6
YouTube version | iPod version
Here it is episode 6. Immortal Three has some tips for you online players on how to not make your team mad, FOLLOW THEM!!! Big shout out to painkilla05 for the idea for the second story and also to sunnylake, Norcal9one6, and Butt Nacho for stepping up for anchors.
Follow the discussion in the forums.
