| Title | Date |
|---|---|
| Marathon: Spatial Outpouring | 11.01.25 |
| Retro Console Games | 06.28.25 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
The Weekly What's Update at Bungie.net this week, courtesy of Frankie, talks about the upcoming Team Hardcore playlist for serious, competetive players, including 10 maps and 10-11 gametypes. Check the update for a more complete list. Frankie also says that yes, Bungie knows that people still cheat, and they are still working on it.
As for surprise announcements:
Aspyr is now offering a chance to preorder the Macintosh version of Stubbs the Zombie, coming this November, for $40. The Halo engine game is being published by Aspyr and was developed by Wideload Games, the Chicago-area startup created by ex-Bungie founder Alexander Seropian, along with a core staff comprised of many other ex-Bungie employees. The game will be released for Xbox, Mac, and PC platforms. Thanks MacNN.
Mike Antonucci and Dean Takahashi, columnists for the San Jose Mercury News, have a gaming podcast called Dean & Nooch On Gaming. Takahashi earlier wrote a book about the Xbox. In this week's edition, each of them pick their top three games of all time; Halo is Takahashi's top pick.
The podcast isn't Halo or Bungie specific, but issues are generally pretty short (about ten minutes per episode, compared to 'casts by Major Nelson or the Podtacular guys, which have been topping 60 minutes lately) and unlike some of the newer broadcasts, this one is dense and polished, with little dead air or repeated sound effects; well worth the few seconds it takes to download and the few minutes it takes to listen to.
NOTE: This latest episode, number eight, isn't visible yet at Odeo or Podcast.net, but will show up if you subscribe via iTunes.
Ducain at High Impact Halo is throwing a virtual pizza party to celebrate the site's 1000th news post. Congratulations HIH!
Halo Babies today wonders if similarly shaped devices will suffer similar fates.
Kotaku got their hands on the newest copy of Xbox 360 World, the magazine that currently has the words "Halo 3" and "PS3 Is Dead" on its cover, along with a picture of the Master Chief. As many predicted, there's no official announcement or even new information in the issue at all:
As it turns out, there’s nothing new in Xbox 360 World, just as we said there wouldn’t be. The cover (see image) refers to a six-page feature at the end of the magazine of readers suggesting what should be included in Halo 3.
Gamasutra today has an interview with Wideload Games' Alexander Seropian. He talks about how Wideload's outsourcing model has worked out, the modifications they made to the original Halo engine, and dealing with the challenges of a cross-platform release:
Having an engine that has already shipped on all three of those platforms certainly helped, as did having a partner in Aspyr Media, a company that has lots of experience with Mac and PC development. We also spent a lot of time early on getting our codebase operational on all three platforms.
GameSpy has put up a preview of Stubbs The Zombie. They liked how the ability to create more zombies that you can make follow you made otherwise straightforward killing far more interesting:
These simple dynamics turn the repetitive combat into a shambling, decomposing chess game, since your inability to singly defeat the large crowds couple with the NPC zombies' natural ineptitude necessitates strategic manipulation of each situation to come out of it in your mostly-intact state. Often I would find myself using zombies as walking shields, hanging back until I could slip in behind the enemies and chomp them, or sending a diversionary swarm towards a machine-gun nest while I hid and send my arm off to possess a shotgun-toting redneck who could take care of the situation.
HBO pointed us to what the guys at TeamXbox have done to the Origen site-- namely, they found the XML file that contains the dialog between the two rabbits. It also reveals the first three of the four contests that will determine who gets to go to Origen. Places 5 and 6 will go to the top eligible Double Team playlist player and his or her usual partner. Unless you live in Portugal or Greece, apparently.
GameSpot is reporting that the same company that has made mobile versions of Microsoft games such as Midtown Madness 3, Zoo Tycoon 2, and Age of Empires 2, has acquired the rights to make mobile Halo properties and is working with Bungie to figure out what kind of applications to make:
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