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Wideload games, created by Bungie founder Alex "The Man" Seropian and announced in March, 2004. They are expected to release a PC/Xbox title using the Halo engine with an action/humor theme sometime in 2005.

A Load So Wide It Got Nominated

We may have neglected it to mention it before, but Wideload Games was nominated for the New Studio award at the Game Developer Choice Awards. The competition certainly seems stiff; ArenaNet is up for Guild Wars, DoubleFine Productions up for Psychonauts, and TellTale Games up for Bone: Out From Boneville. The last nominee in the category is New Crayon Games up for Bonnie's Bookstore.

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Wave Goodbye

Even more people can wave goodbye to their social lives, apparently starting sometime early next year. Various news articles seem to be under the impression that the Alex Seropian's Spectrum MediaWorks', (a company which I was unaware of) next project is an MMO callec X Quest. The basic premise of the game is interaction with a FOX reality show, although the description is a little too ambiguous to say much more than that.

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Greenhouse Map

Level 2: Bleeding Ground

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Bleeding Ground Loading Screen

Level 2: Bleeding Ground

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A Line of Sodmobiles

Level 2: Bleeding Ground

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Level 2 - Bleeding Ground

Here is level two. I mean to get these done quicker, but school is hectic, as well it should be. I know I am getting my moneys worth. These end up taking me quite a while, because I finish the level every time I play through the whole level, but only get a percentage of the walkthrough finished. Then on the next few rounds through I have to play through the start of the level again. The problem is that I can't just rush though the level, especially not the Sod-O-Mobile bit. There is always something that catches my intrest, and keeps me playing for a while, most often seeing how high I can jump up a wall does it. This one includes links to commentaries. Thanks to Wideload Games dot Org and the guy that captured them (Quicksilver I think).

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The Zombie Is Escaping

Online gaming magazine The Escapist has a nice piece on Stubbs the Zombie; Escapist writer Joe Blancato talks with Wideload's "writer guy" Matt Soell about the grisly genesis of Stubbs; Soell also gets to talk about one of the underlying themes of the game:

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First Commentary Hippo

Level 1: Welcome to Punchbowl

If you've played through Stubbs at least once already, all the way to the end, at any difficulty level, you will have unlocked the audio developer commentaries strewn throughout the game. You can trigger them by walking over one of the many pink hippo heads you'll see, as pictured here.

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Welcome To Punchbowl

Level 1: Welcome to Punchbowl

The loading screen for the first level of Stubbs the Zombie, Welcome to Punchbowl. As with all of Stubbs' loading screens, the animation that plays slowly turns the screen green while ever-loudening groans of "brains... brains" by a zombie horde plays wistfully in the background.

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Style Over Substance In Stubbs Reviews

In the first part of my review of Stubbs, I lamented that most gaming media outlets were giving the game less attention than it deserved. That is still so. It was fortuitously released around Halloween, which gave many mainstream outlets an excuse to mention the game, but for the most part the hardcore gaming press dismissed it as a game with a cute premise and a nice soundtrack but just not much to write home about.

Without meaning any disrespect to Robert 'Apache' Howarth at Voodoo Extreme (a site I generally find to be a cut above most gaming sites, even if it is part of IGN) I found his mini-review of Stubbs a good example of what's wrong with game reviews in general and reviews of Stubbs in particular. So I thought I'd annotate a version of it here.

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Stubbs The Zombie Review

A multi-part review of Stubbs the Zombie by Rampancy.net.

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Getting Insane With Stubbs

N1NJ4 is writing an Insane Walkthrough of Stubbs the Zombie in his Rampancy.net blog. Naturally, it contains spoilers, so if you haven't played the game yet but intend to, be wary. The first level, Welcome to Punchbowl, is up now.

spoiler (pre-H3)

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Stubbs the Zombie Insane Walkthrough

Rampancy user N1NJ4 has begun a walkthrough of Stubbs the Zombie at the Insane difficulty.

There is also a walkthrough image gallery for helpful images accompanying the walkthrough.

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Stubbs Articles

Articles about Stubbs the Zombie, the first game from Wideload Games, based on the Halo engine and released for Mac, PC and Xbox.

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Level 1 - Welcome to Punchbowl

Welcome to punchbowl, and welcome to my walkthrough of Stubbs the zombie. This will get you through the whole game on the insane difficulty, and hopefully find all of the hippos on the way. Where needed, I will include screenshots, and maybe (but probably not) even videos. Enjoy, as soon as I ask permission, I will link the recordings of the commentaries to their respective hippos.

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