The Man Has Left The Building
Matt Soell posted at Bungie.net today that it was Alex The Man Seropian's last official day at Bungie today.
Matt Soell posted at Bungie.net today that it was Alex The Man Seropian's last official day at Bungie today.
GameSpy is running a four part article on Mac gaming and porting (one, two, three and four to come), starting with the roots of the Mac community in earlier Apple hardware, like the Apple IIe and vintage games like Wizardry (ah, the memories) through ports of Windows games like Doom, Mac originals like Myst, and up to the current process of porting games from OS 7/8/9.x to t
As our unofficial countdown indicates, the Forerunners.org website is now online. If you have a Bungie-related website you'd like hosted, these guys are the ticket. You get all sorts of luxuries for free, including web space, e-mail, and forums. Sound good? Click here for more information.
First off, Matt just marked his seventh year, seventh month and seventh day at Bungie; yes, it's Matt's Bungieversary; he posted it himself at Bungie.net.
And seemingly as gift on this occasion to the ranks of rabid Halofen, he's offered a few words of encouragement in the HBO forum. In response to demands that the Halo Updates be resurrected for Halo 2, he said:
Well, I don't know if they strapped him down to a slab of gold and aimed a laser at his private parts, but somehow Ryan Mhaddy Matthews over at The Junkyard was able to make him talk: they've done a spotlight on Louis Wu. Among the tidbits:
Bungie has five job offers currently listed; 3D Environment Artist, Game Producer, Lead Animator, Character Animator, and Mission Designer. The requirements and responsibilities can be seen at the Bungie Jobs page.
Love 'em or hate 'em, they won't go away... not yet, anyway. There's another Bungie comic by David Candyman Candland up at Bungie.net. In any case, I'm sure the special place that Jaime Case Griesemer refers to must be Rampancy's new Halo 2 forum. Or, at least, in our dreams it is.
Steve Campbell of Bungie.org fame has put a notice on his new site, Forerunners.org, that it is close to opening:
We're mirroring two of the four Making Of Halo videos that were recently posted at HBO; the one featuring Alex Seropian and Hamilton Chu, and the one featuring Steve Abeyta and Shikai Wang.
There were a number of small updates to the Bungie.net page in the last few days:
Commentators: Shikai Wang, Paul Russell, Rob McLees, Marty O'Donnell. This version recorded with a fan audience.
Netboy over at the hotline server of Forerunners.org pointed out that the Bungie Store is now open. And as it turns out, the story is true this time.
Deimos Fawkes has posted at Subnova that they've got four pages of scans from Edge magazine, which recently interviewed Jaime Case Griesemer of Halo and Myth fame. They pass on special thanks to Pallor for acquiring the scans.