MaraBathroom
Narcogen sporting one of Hamish Sinclair's 77 Marathon Story t-shirts at a "black dress only" party held by the CEO of MicroStrategy in northern Virginia, 2001.
Death by intelligence.
Bill Gates
scrn 110
Choose Your Weapons
From the announcement trailer. The Master Chief opens a weapons rack that is concealed in the hallway wall and selects an assault rifle.
Cowabunga
Having opened the airlock door, the Master Chief prepares to fling himself into the Earth's upper atmosphere. From the announcement trailer.
I'm Ready For My Closeup, Mr. DeMille
From the announcement trailer. The Master Chief steps towards the camera, looking out through the observation window to the scene of Earth being "glassed" -- devastated by Covenant energy weapons.
Fighter Bay 02
From the announcement trailer. The Master Chief emerges from the door into The Spoke's fighter bay.
Let There Be Light
Another shot from the announcement trailer, showing off the new lighting effects of the Halo 2 engine as the Master Chief emerges into a darkened hallway with strong backlighting.
Danger
Whenever you see a sign that warns of danger if you push a button, you can bet you're supposed to push it. The Vidmaster's Oath, from Bungie's Marathon days, actually required players to "push all buttons". There's rarely a button in any of Bungie's games that you're not supposed to push.
Happy belated Bungie day!
Help out Bungie.net
SketchFactor at bungie.net wants your help. The folks at Bungie are starting to outline how Bungie.net will work with Halo for Mac/PC and Halo 2, read this for the full details. If you think you don't want to help out, then I won't tell you that you can win a prize!
Submissions must be in by 7/14/03
Contribute to Halo 2!
Over at Bungie.net there is a contest to contribute to the UI in Halo 2. Read all of the details here!
T&R Gets Massive Update
SketchFactor has posted to Bungie.net that Bungie's own Halo site, Truth & Reconciliation, has gotten a a major update and a facelift:
The newly revamped Tru7h & Reconciliation site is up and running and to celebrate, we've got some sweet new Halo 2 goodies for ya! Screenshots, concept art, renders and story boards all have something new. And, as an added bonus, Evil Otto has posted the last chapter in his Legendary walkthrough! Check back all throughout next week for more cool stuff during our E3 extravaganza!
There's also a good amount of information about what Bungie will be showing at E3, including demonstrations of Halo 2 and playable versions of PC Halo.
Matt Soell To Leave Bungie
After eight years doing Damage and Spin and donning the Online Asbestos Suit for Bungie, Community Guy and Keeper of the Bungie Way Matt Soell has decided to leave Bungie. Friday, April 25, 2003, was his last day. He wrote about his decision in the HBO forum:
Before the juicy conspiracy theories start, I'd like to state for the record that there's no intrigue or drama behind this decision. No political machinations, no long-simmering rivalries, no epic struggle between the forces of light and dark. My reasons for leaving are pretty mundane. It's just time for me to do something different.The rest of the community team will be picking up my slack, and they're committed to doing cool stuff for you guys. With any luck, you won't even realize I'm gone.
Working at Bungie is probably the best thing that's happened to me. I've learned a lot and enjoyed myself immensely. I've had the honor of working with some of the most intelligent, creative, fun people on the planet.
Matt will be sorely missed, especially by those longtime members of the community, as well as the administrators of all the fansites he helped out over the years.
Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO who posted the news. There is also an item posted by Gawyn at Subnova.
Live The Dream, Work For Bungie
The latest email update from Gamasutra, a site devoted to game development, lists positions for a developer and an 3d environmental artist as open. These positions aren't yet listed on Bungie's own Jobs page, but they can be seen by searching Gamasutra's job database for Bungie; they're listed as new as of January 31. Thanks to Acrappa for the heads-up.