Putting Hands On The Chimp
Ars Technica has a hands-on experience with Wideload's Hail to the Chimp. Apparently, though, they liked the humorous video interludes a bit better than the game itself:
Recent Videos
| Title | Date |
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| No Man's Sky: Cosmos Pt 3 | 10.10.26 |
| No Man's Sky: Cosmos Pt 2 | 09.26.26 |
| No Man's Sky: Cosmos Pt 2 | 09.19.26 |
| No Man's Sky: Cosmos Pt 1 | 09.19.26 |
| Halo Campaign Evolved Pt 4 | 09.05.26 |
| Halo Campaign Evolved Pt 3 | 08.29.26 |
| Halo Campaign Evolved Pt 2 | 08.22.26 |
Sheet Music
| Title | Transcriber | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Halo 5: Advent (String... | cwhiterun | 06.07.16 |
| Halo 5: Blue Team (Str... | cwhiterun | 10.22.15 |
| Halo 5: Light is Green... | cwhiterun | 10.20.15 |
| Halo 5: The Trials (St... | cwhiterun | 10.12.15 |
| Roll Call - Price Paid | pimpnmonk | 06.02.14 |
| Behold A Pale Horse Fo... | pimpnmonk | 01.24.14 |
| Farthest Outpost/Mercy... | pimpnmonk | 12.30.13 |
Rampancy Podcast
| Episode | Date |
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| Sony Acquires Bungie (mp3) | 02.02.22 |
| Let's Play Mass Effect 3 #27 Final... | 06.02.17 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 27: Craig Ha... | 05.08.13 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 25: Destiny... | 03.05.13 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 24: Halo Ann... | 04.21.12 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 23: Halo Ann... | 06.26.11 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 21: The Wint... | 04.18.11 |
First Halo 3 Auto Update Any Minute Now
Frankie has posted at Bungie.net that the long awaited AU1 for Halo 3 should be online in the "wee hours" on Wednesday, which is pretty much right now.
Who's The Best In Your Neighborhood
[b][url=http://halocal.com]Local Halo 3 Stats[/url][/b]
(by city, state, or country)
Cyclomite To Be Unveiled At GDC
PrimeNewswire has a press release up that says that attendees at next week's Game Developers Conference Expo will be among the first to see Wideload's first casual game, Cyclomite:
2:00 Cyclomite: Alex Seropian and his team at Wideload Shorts team present Cyclomite. This is the first ever showing of this innovative multiplayer party game. Don't miss your chance to play it. If you miss this one, it's repeated on Thursday at 11:30 am.
PDF, MIDI Files Added To New Sheet Music Entries
For those who don't have Finale PrintMusic, I've added PDF and MIDI files to the entries for Covenant Dance, Follow Our Brothers, and To Kill A Demon.
Ex-Bungie Staffer Becomes A Tyrant
Hardy Lebel, the multiplayer designer of Halo 1 who also worked on Halo 2 and Oni, has set up a new games development studio in Seattle called Tyrant with Anders Hejdenberg, who worked on Battlefield 2 as its lead designer.
The seven-man studio currently has listed as its only project something identified only as "ESP".
Writing Halo: No Fun At All
Comic website Earth's Greatest interviewed Eric Trautmann about his comic Checkmate. Trautmann previously worked at Microsoft and was involved with Halo and the Halo novels written by Eric Nylund.
Asked about working on Halo, this is what he had to say:
Dance Like A Sangheili
Another Halo sheet music submission from MJCrascal21; this time it's Halo 1's Covenant Dance (with percussion). Audio file to come soon.
Halo 3 Update To 'Fix' Melee Contests
In this week's Bungie Weekly Update, Tyson "Ferrex" Green gives an exhaustive explanation of how Halo 2's melee system worked, how Bungie addressed its flaws in changing the design for Halo 3, how that design change led to complaints from the the playerbase, and how the Halo 3 Auto Update, due out later this month, will address those concerns.
When Is A Story Is Not A Story?
One might as well ask, when is a development blog not a development blog? Maybe when it's all about cocks on stage and cocking the vote and... well, about cocks.
However, the latest entry in the Wideload Team 1Up blog is by Matt Soell, and it's about the development of Hail to the Chimp, about how a game that was originally spec'd not to have a story got one:
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