Halo Babies Are Living Large
mrsmiley writes today about a large art update at HaloBabies today, including new desktop images from Gruntsbane and akba, new art and strips by Halo Babies fans, and information on how to submit art to Halo Babies.
Rampancy
Death by intelligence.
Recent Videos
| Title | Date |
|---|---|
| No Man's Sky: Cosmos Pt 1 | 09.19.26 |
| Halo Campaign Evolved Pt 4 | 09.05.26 |
| Halo Campaign Evolved Pt 3 | 08.29.26 |
| Halo Campaign Evolved Pt 2 | 08.22.26 |
| Halo Campaign Evolved Pt 1 | 08.15.26 |
| Planet of Lana Part 2 | 08.08.26 |
| Planet of Lana | 08.01.26 |
Sheet Music
| Title | Transcriber | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Rampancy Podcast
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Xbox, PC Games To Share Codebases?
The Inquirer is reporting today that MS told them at the ECTS show in London that there are plans to allow PC games and Xbox games to share codebases. The Inquirer describes this as a "shift from its past strategy".
In the past, the portability of games from Windows to the Xbox was touted as a strength of the platform. However, the change of processor architecture in the Xbox 2, from x86 to PPC, calls into question how easy it will be to share code in the future between games on the two platforms.
The Return Of CENSORED
Frankie is back to doing the CENSORED on the CENSORED in this week's update, hosted over in the Halo Planet forum. Lots of progress to report: levels that are done or almost done, the manual is done, and people are sleeping on inflatable mattresses in their office. Sounds like fun.
New Strip, Video, Backgrounds At Halo Babies
In addition to the new Halo Babies strip, Gruntsbane has done five new strip backgrounds for use in making fan Halo Babies strips. There's also a video documenting mrsmiley's trip to MLG.
Halo 2 A Tough Act To Follow
OpeningAct had a better experience playing Halo 2 at Game Stars Live in London than other community members, having gotten to the front of the line in reasonable time and having a rampantly rampaging good time beging first to fifteen in a round of Slayer on Zanzibar, and posting about it in the HBO forum.
And yes, in case you're wondering, this item got mentioned because of its use of the word rampant.
This News Is Not Mythical
Believe it or not, there's Myth news today. Over at MythForums there are two news items; one about an update to the Myth 2 FAQ, adding information about the community game servers that replaced Bungie.net; the other is the launch of Myth Gazetteer, a site that aims to be a meta-directory for Myth maps; they've got 500 so far. Thanks vinylrake.
Lies, Damned Lies, And Halo Statistics
BlackOps has posted in the Gearbox HaloCE forum about a modification that he and some associates have made to an Unreal Tournament 2003 statistics program. Now this statistics package works with Halo server logs if you have FTP access to the logs themselves. They aim to produce an open source Halo statistics package; currently it tracks kills, deaths, suicides, team kills, who killed whom, flag scores, double kills, triple kills, killtaculars, and more. It also implements a UT-style ranking system, where players with low ranks get more "points" for killing players with higher ranks. You can see a demo of the system as well.
Thanks Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up. This may be a precursor to what we'll see in the XBL portion of Halo 2.
Seventh Column To Get The New Hotness
Achronos has posted up at Bungie.net that the Seventh Column will be shut down next week, on September 7, for major upgrades including a new look, new forums, and a new user database. Some important notes:
- Chapters with less than three members will be deleted
- All existing forum posts will be deleted
- Data resource limits are being reduced; instead of each chapter having 100 resources with 1000 data rows each, chapters will have one resource per group for five types, with limits of 250 rows of data per type
- Guest books, Contact Info, FAQs, Links and Articles will function as before
- No shirt, no shoes, no service and no exceptions
Be sure to read the full article if you run a Seventh Column chapter or plan to.
Parsons: Halo 2 A Great Story With Level-Field Online Play
GameDaily has interviewed Bungie's Pete Parsons about (what else) Halo 2. Two concepts kept coming up; how Bungie has deepened and extended the single player story (and kept most of the story out of the press, so far) and how the multiplayer aspect is now fully realized and a separate experience both from multiplayer in Halo 1 and from the single player in Halo 2:
We've made the multiplayer easy to get into with a ranking system, which doesn't allow veterans to pick off new players in unfair matches. You can play against people all over the world that are on the same skill level, which makes this game fun no matter what level of player you are.
Does Halo 2 on XBL mark the return of the comet?
You Can Take That Plasma Rifle From My Cold, Dead Hands
Mark Ryan Sallee at IGN played the Zanzibar level of Halo 2 at Game Stars Live, and wrote up a short article of his impressions, including some of the changes made to the weapons. Apparently, the plasma weapons, including his own favorite, the plasma rifle, don't slow down enemies the way they did in Halo 1. And that makes Mark sad.
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