What's the most accurate thing you can think of? Probably this laser. The answer is a weapon so versatile it can snipe infantry or fry vehicles. It even makes coffee at a thousand yards. It is the Spartan Laser, the heavily-censored subject of KP's latest treatise on the weapons and vehicles in Halo 3.
Bungie.net has a new moderator, Evilcam, and as a reward, he gets an interview with KP. Let's hope that satisfaction in a job well done is reward enough.
Ducain over at High Impact Halo put up a wish list for Halo 3. I thought I'd take some of his points and respond to them: ones I liked, and ones I didn't. Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the notice.
Games In Action gets to the bottom of the conspiracy that put KP in position to get Frankie's coffee keep the Halo fan community abreast of Halo 3's development. It's a sordid tale of job applications and interviews that exposes the seamy underbelly of game development.
Of course, working at Bungie isn't all sushi farts and roses, but there are advantages, says KP:
KP's latest in weapons profiling focuses on the Covenant's Type-2 Antipersonnel Fragmentation Grenade, or Spike Grenade. Even with all the info up close and personnel, we still have to settle for a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot for an image. Hey, how about some pictures, like we got for the Mongi?
The Escapist is calling Bungie a great artist in their piece on how the gaming industry shamelessly pillages the film industry, especially in the area of science fiction. The concept of the article: to make a list of movies so influential on the games industry that, if they had not ever existed, the gaming industry itself would be unrecognizable.
Halo, of course, warrants a mention:
Russian gaming site OGL appropriates Bungie's Christmas card image featuring Oni's Konoko.
Halo3.com notes that the first way of getting into the Halo 3 public beta-- the web registration form that offered any and all comers in the U.S. a chance to be chosen-- has closed. Winners will be notified sometime this week.
Those who don't make it can still get in by buying a specially marked box of Crackdown, or entering the Rule of Three promotion the first three days of February by playing 3 hours of Halo 2 multiplayer between Feb 1 and 3 and being one of the first 13,333 to register at Halo3.com afterwards.
You know, because of the layers. Layers of detail, like the layers in Frankie's latest Bungie Update. Between those layers are morsels of information: like the fact that every campaign level is now in the game, which is playable "from end to end"; like the fact that the usual levels of difficulty: easy, normal, heroic and legendary, are in the game and being tuned; like the fact that Robert McLees just found Ling Ling.
Okay, it could be cake. Everybody likes cake.