What should Bungie replace Phoenix with?
Halo 3.
63% (26 votes)
A mech game.
10% (4 votes)
Pathways for Xbox.
10% (4 votes)
Gnop!
17% (7 votes)
Total votes: 41
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Have Stopwatch, Will Obsess About Halo
HBO has put up a page called Random Stats with numbers producted by Halo fan Zachary Hahn and his trusty Timex watch. Some interesting notes: The Spartan II runs about 15.5 mph and throws grenades at a tad less than 51 mph. Guess no World Series for Master Chief.
Rampancy Returns Home, Finally
In what I hope is our last story ever on this topic, we're finally regained control of our domain name.
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Xbox365: XBL UC Is Halo On Speed
Hedgehog at Xbox365 has posted a Hands-On article about Unreal Championship impressions from the Xbox Live Boot Camp event, and compared it to Halo:
So hereТs the million selling question ladies and gentle gamers. Is Unreal Championship a better multiplayer experience than Halo? To put it simply yes! Unreal Championship is just one sick head-trip of a shooter, which is going to have Xbox Live users screaming for more, once they unlearn Halo of course.
He goes on to cite that while the controls are very similar, character movement is so much higher that Halo players may have difficulty adjusting.
Wanna Program Games? Learn Math
Michael Evans at Bungie has written up the second in Bungie's series about breaking into the game industry at Bungie.net. It's titled So You Want To Be A Programmer, and has a lot of helpful information:
Some colleges offer specific course tracks in computer games, sometimes described as interactive entertainment or new media. I am highly skeptical about those. I would recommend going to the best traditional school you can get into and afford.If you want to be a game programmer you should major in computer science. Having a solid math background is quite valuable as well, especially some linear algebra (which might well be required for a graphics course anyway). On the computer science side I would recommend a traditional mix - certainly including algorithms and computer graphics. Even if you are not interested in that kind of programming work, a basic understanding of computer graphics will prove valuable. If you like it, I encourage you to take as much as you can.
That and a single page resume ought to do it.
Candyman Betrays Us All, Twice
David Candyman Candland has put up the eighth part of Truth and Reconciliation's Halo Legendary Walkthrough. This one's for the level Two Betrayals, and features many new screenshots.
Microsoft Plies Penny Arcade
Tycho and Gabe were invited to the Xbox Live Boot Camp, and they've done a writeup of their impressions today, as well as a Halo-related comic. From the writeup:
As it turns out, Gabe and I had nothing to fear from Microsoft, or even from Bungie when we went through there (very quietly). It was just as my experience had been with Kelly Flock, when I talked to him. People who believe sincerely in what they are doing don't mind if you tease them, because they they had real reasons for making the decisions they did. They were nothing but polite, and very forthcoming with things to eat.
Kudos to Louis at HBO for the heads-up.
Phoenix Dies To Be Reborn As ... ?
As Matt Soell put it in the HBO forum and in an email to Rampancy, this is one of those times when rumors aren't entirely untrue.
To wit:
The Phoenix team has decided to shelve the game they were working on in favor of a new project. We actually look upon this as a good thing. They're still called the Phoenix team, but they're doing something different.
And what exactly is something different ?
Stay tuned...
Bungie.net Faster, More Fully Featured
Bungie.net is back up with improved performance and some new features. A list of the new features has been posted by Yeroen on the Chapter Founders page. The site indeed is lightning fast now.
Halo Wins Best Console, Multiplayer Game Awards
Matt also posted word that Halo was nominated in three categories and won in two at the recent British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. Ironically, the category they were nominated for but didn't win is definitely Halo's strongest suit-- audio. Strange. There's a complete story at BBC News.
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