Fanstock Participants Arrive In Dallas
Steve from Forerunners.org has reported that he, dolbex and Dark Helmet have arrived in Dallas, and has promised to post some pictures later as the events begins.
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| Halo Campaign Evolved Pt 2 | 08.22.26 |
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Rampancy Podcast
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| 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 |
Red vs. Blue 16 Ready For Saturday Release
Word from redvsblue.com is that Episode 16 is done, and has been released to sponsors. They expect it'll be ready for public release on Saturday, and note that they'll be at QuakeCon in Dallas particpating on a machinima panel. Wonder if they'll be close enough to Plano to hook up with all the PC Halo Fanstock people.
Rockets On Prisoner Award Winners Announced
CobaltNova has announced the winners of the first Rockets On Prisoner Halo fan film awards. They also want everyone to know that Brian "SketchFactor" Jarrard at Bungie is, as we speak, working on creating the Bungie Prize Pack that winners will receive.
Go over to CNHL for the full results, but it's fair to say that Randy Glass had a good night, pulling in 3 awards between his Warthog Jump and Warthog Revisited movies.
MS Dumps Nvidia For ATI
According to Xbox365, ATI Technologies announced yesterday that they have an agreement with Microsoft to develop new technologies for future Xbox products. It looks very much like this means that the Xbox 2's graphics processor will be done by Nvidia's biggest rival, possibly a result of ongoing disagreements between MS and Nvidia over costs of the original Xbox's graphics processor.
UPDATE: There's a much more detailed analysis of this situation including some rampant speculation, over at News.com.
So, How Do You Feel About Losing A Wight?
Zandervix over at MBO has posted that danny over at darooster.net is starting a project called Myth Alice to create a chatbot that can have conversations about Myth. Makes me wonder if the Cortanabot is still kicking around my HD someplace... and also why it isn't called Myth Eliza, but that's beside the point, I guess.
Right now the site has forums up to discuss the project, and Anna, which looks like a web-based Myth chatbot written in PHP.
Red vs Blue Reaches Iraq?
gfunk has posted an item over on the Red vs Blue site; it seems that readers Matthew and David sent over some images that purport to show Red vs. Blue has made it to Iraq. (Who knew anyone even played Halo in Iraq... outside the barracks, I mean?) They've also got pics of the series being shown in Game Time Nation in New York City, and ask other RvB fans to send them any other interesting images they might have.
"Cananimators" Answer Fan Questions
SketchFactor over at Bungie.net has posted the results of the "Ask the Cananimators" feature interview, with answers by anim8rjb and bentlama. While the majority of the answers were with tongue placed firmly in cheek, and related to the genesis of Canadian Bacon, the relative coolness factor of the OHL and the CFL, and the prospects for the Toronto Maple Leafs, some Halo info did creep in there from time to time:
NW: We actually use IK for most of our animation. IK on the arms and legs, feet and other areas. For the most part we are really used to animating with IK. We use FK for the spine, neck, head and wrists and toes. Our animation rig is a mix of a lot of things, and through the power of MEL, it is simple to use and quick to animate with...those are the most important features of any animation rig. Thanks for asking, and please keep posting more questions like this.
Be sure to give it a read. Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO as usual.
PA Gaming Day To Feature Halo Action, Halo 2
Gabe over at Penny Arcade has posted that this month's Gaming Day event, to be held at Lanwerx in Bellevue, WA on August 23, is going to feature a Halo tournament as well as some Halo 2 stuff:
To go along with our Halo tourney, Microsoft will has agreed to come down and show off a bit of Halo 2. We aren't sure yet if it will be the same stuff they showed at E3 or something new but either way it's pretty fucking exciting.
Penny Arcade, of course, is a regular webcomic focusing on gaming that has, at times, mentioned Halo in the past.
BGH's DarkHelmet To Visit GearBox
DarkHelmet from BattleGround: Halo has been invited to a Halo: PC Fanstock event at the Gearbox headquarters. They promise a big article on it afterwards, so stay tuned.
UPDATE: According to the latest news post at Forerunners.org, Steve is also headed to this event, and no doubt they'll have updates after that as well.
Image Gallery Annotations Underway
A project that's been on the growing "to-do" list here at Rampancy for quite a long time has finally been begun. While Rampancy has, in the last few years, focused on Bungie's latest franchise, the Xbox flagship game Halo, it was originally conceived as encompassing all Bungie games, and had ambitions to serve as a kind of site-of-record for all things Bungie, under one roof, with one staff and one interface.
Part of that would mean having an archive of images associated with each game-- not just the images themselves, but text accompanying each explaining their place within the history of Bungiedom.
That work has now begun, with the population of image galleries for Myth, Myth 2, Myth 3, Marathon, Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, Oni and Pathways Into Darkness. We've started with the official screenshots released by Bungie on their own site, as well as scraps we found kicking around our hard drives. We are working now to supply commentary for each, starting with Marathon and Myth. Galleries for Halo and Halo 2 are being built, but annotation has not yet begun, although we have today added many images to the galleries of Halo hacks inside our community gallery. If anyone has other images they'd like to see included, feel free to let me know.
However, there aren't many people-- at least, not many apart from Louis Wu-- who can consider themselves walking encyclopedias of Bungie lore, so there are certain to be holes in the record. With an eye towards fixing that problem, every image in the gallery can have comments attached to it, like all other items at Rampancy. If anyone sees a remark that seems amiss, or sees an image that sparks a memory from their own experience playing a Bungie game-- please, feel free to go ahead and post a comment.
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