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Title	Date
Pathways Into Darkness Part 6	05.24.25
Pathways Into Darkness Part 5	05.03.25
Pathways into Darkness: Part 4	04.05.25
Rampancy Returns - Halo 2 E3 Earth City De...	12.28.24
Pathways Into Darkness Part 3	08.10.24
Pathways Into Darkness Part 2	08.03.24
Pathways Into Darkness Part 1	07.27.24

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

Episode	Date
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

The Good, The Bad, And The Cheap

Since I've already been called out for being petulant this week, I thought I'd do a follow-up on Uwe Boll's whinefest from yesterday where he takes a few swipes at his critics, just as I've taken a few swipes at those trying to let the air out of the tires of my favorite defenseless lovelorn zombie, Stubbs.

Aside from his complaint, most likely valid, that many who criticize his films haven't actually seen them (a sure bet for films that don't succeed at the box office, I'd imagine) Boll also suggests the following series of logical propositions as a counter-argument (click read more from front page for the complete article):

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The Reimagining Business

The Bleat has an excellent hypothetical exchange between the Doom movie scriptwriter and a Hollywood producer:

Producer: Of the game, maybe, but you know, weâ€™re in the reimagining business here. Value added. People go see this expecting demons from hell, we give them something else, shake them up.

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Boll: Halo Will Be A Failure

Eurogamer is carrying an interview with film director Uwe Boll about videogame movies. The thrust is basically that when his videogame adaptations have failed to succeed critically or to make good theatrical box-office numbers, the reasons have largely been a lack of support from the developers of the original game and an unfairly hostile press.

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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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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.

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Peril For Piano

I've been working on this one for a while and it is finally good enough to post here. Have fun with it, especially the end. I've added fingering to help you play it easier.

As always, I've included PDF, MIDI, and PrintMusic 2006 files for each song.

-Devin Eastman

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Can't Keep A Good Zombie Down

More reviews of Stubbs: Anton P Nym wrote a nice piece on Stubbs the Zombie in his blog that is well worth a read.

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Stubbs To Get A Sequel?

Richard 'MrE' Elliott over at the Global Gaming League has an interview with Doug Zartman, now of Wideload Games and formerly of Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Software.

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Mean, Green, Fighting.... Or Eating Machines

Despite being not just very different games but nearly different kinds of games, comparisons between Wideload's debut effort, Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without A Pulse, and Bungie's Halo franchise are inevitable.

Wideload has derived not only their core personnel but also the game's engine from Bungie.

At first glance, if it weren't for the "made with the Halo engine" sticker on the box, there might be little to suggest any connection at all. Some reviewers have gone so far as to suggest this was merely a marketing ploy, to attach the relatively unknown Wideload's first game to the blockbuster Halo series. However, the connections are far deeper than that.

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More Brains For The Buck

Stubbs The Zombie, created by Wideload and published by Aspyr, is now being offered at special discount prices-- $29.99 for the PC and $39.99 for the Xbox. If you haven't seen or heard Stubbs yet, check out the demo for the Mac and PC versions at Nzone. And for all your Stubbs news flashes right from the source, sign up for the Stubbs the Zombie Army Dispatch email list.

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