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Bungie's not making Halo games anymore. That's not news. But they've still been administering the servers which hold all that precious multiplayer data. Y'know, the place where all your Forge maps and deathmatch stats live. However, the studio just announced that their stewardship of Halo data will end on March 31st, as the final part of a transition that's been happening since last summer. More »
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Way before you pick up a controller, the first thing lots of folks think about when they think video games is how it's going to look. This generation of gamers isn't so enlightened that they'll overlook shitty graphics in lieu of anything a game presents. More »
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It might not seem familiar at first, but once you start wandering the corridors you'll realize that this is a faithful scale recreation of Resident Evil's Spencer Mansion crafted using the creation tools from Halo: Reach. More »
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The way it's looking there'll never be a Halo movie. Ah well! So long as regular humans keep making killer props like this, we're free to imagine our own. Which is always for the best, because then, they never end up sucking. More »
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It's 2011. You've seen how movies are made. You've seen how video games are made. But have you seen how video game toys are made? More »
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Bungie Aerospace is a Bungie label created to help small independent developers get their mobile and social games out there. The first Bungie Aerospace title is Crimson: Steam Pirates from developer Harebrained Schemes. More »
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Jeff Fletcher, an IT guy from Halo creators Bungie, pulled into the parking lot of a US Bank branch in Skyway, Seattle last week. He then saw two guys start shooting each other. What happens next is awesome. More »
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Earlier today we showed you the one-hour documentary celebrating the 20th anniversary of Bungie Studios. It ended with a curiosity. More »
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The folks at Bungie are celebrating 20 years of doing whatever it is Bungie does... make games, I think! Halo, Marathon, mystery projects for Activision and stuff. They've created a nearly one-hour long documentary about themselves, promising never-before-seen material. More »
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Drake Tsui dropped an amazing "The Babysitter" (HALO Legends) episode fan art illustration! You can follow Drake here on his Tumblr. More »
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As it did a year before, on Bungie Day (July 7), the Halo creators made available to the public the Bungie Armor and Nameplate in multiplayer, and prepared to wind down its stewardship of the Halo franchise it created with a sentimental note that hinted at future projects. More »
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While most of Bungie Studios is laboring on the next big thing to follow Halo, a small portion of the company is launching something called Bungie Aerospace. More »
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Thanks to the spare-time efforts of a single coder, Marathon the beloved FPS from the zenith of Mac gaming's days, will be released on the iPad by Bungie for the low low cost of zero dollars and zero cents. More »
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Once upon a time, Halo was supposed to be a Mac game, but, to make a long story too-short, Bungie Studio's legendary first-person shooter wound up on Microsoft's Xbox in 2001. More »
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Using the game's in-built level creation tools, Halo: Reach player Pete_the_duck has been able to construct a working pinball game within the Xbox 360 shooter that uses sniper rifles and land mines to get the job done. More »
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Today is the first in a new "Before They Were Famous" series here on Total Recall, where we look at the games some of the world's biggest developers worked on before they became some of the world's biggest developers. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5805264&view=rss&microfeed=true Bungie "Aerospace" filed a trademark for a new phone-based game called "Crimson" last week. The trademark is described as a "Computer game software for use on mobile and cellular phones." and "Computer game software downloadable from a global computer network." [UPSTO.GOV] More »
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With the ten year anniversary of the release of the original Xbox shooter Halo looming, Titan Books is preparing to publish a collection of art from the series. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5800371&view=rss&microfeed=true Halo and Marathon fans looking forward to Bungie's all-new universe can set aside their hype and hope until sometime after E3 2011. Bungie and publisher Activision have both said the developer will not have an official presence at this year's E3 show which is just weeks away. [Bungie.net] More »
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After Stephen Colbert joked this week that Master Chief must have been one of the members of SEAL Team Six, which took out Osama bin Laden, Bungie dusted off that image, which it had whipped up a while back in an attempt to get a mention on the show. More »
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The annual Penny Arcade Expo, the one that takes place in Seattle, will also be home to a Microsoft-sponsored festival geared for the Halo fan. The appropriately named Halo Fest, Microsoft says, is "the largest and most expansive live Halo experience ever." More »
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It seems an age since the world first saw Halo. It was the 20th century. Back when it was introduced by...Steve Jobs. And was a...third-person shooter. More »
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This is veteran actor Jeff Steitzer. He's done Broadway. Law & Order. Oh, and if you've ever played Halo, chances are you've heard his voice more than Master Chief's, Sgt. Johnson's and Cortana's combined. More »
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What happens when four guys instrumental in the development of the Halo series leave Bungie and start up their own studio? They make a stylish 2D shooter/platformer. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5779304&view=rss&microfeed=true While Bungie's David Aldridge confirmed that the studio was making a MMO. Now Bungie says that was all a big joke. Ha ha. [Thanks Speider!] More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5777224&view=rss&microfeed=true Rumored for more than a month, Bungie's next project is an MMO, the developer confirmed today at GDC 2011. But David Aldridge, the studio's lead network engineer, said it is not "WoW in space," referencing earlier reports of the project. Aldridge did not give any other details, such as a title, but we've already been told it's to be called "Destiny," among other details. [IGN] More »
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Microsoft has nailed down a March 15 release date for the Halo: Reach Defiant Map pack, punctuating the announcement with a set of fresh screens showing off the three maps you'll be paying $10 for. More »
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Watson's victory over two Jeopardy champs last week isn't just the first step in human domination by machines, it could also be a step toward better, more interesting video games. More »
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Bungie's follow-up to the Halo series is a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter, according to a source claiming to have knowledge of the game's development. That sci-fi shooter is currently named Destiny, he says, Bungie's original post-Halo franchise. More »
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Due out this March, the Defiant Map pack for Halo: Reach will include three new maps and 150 more Gamerscore points for $10. More »
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Gaming has characters with memorable personalities. But Master Chief, the protagonist of the Halo series, is a total void. And there's a reason for that. More »
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What would Halo: Combat Evolved look like if it had been made for the Nintendo Entertainment System? Expert de-maker Eric Ruth answers that question with his own version of Halo, a side-scrolling shooter that looks transported straight from the 80s. More »
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Tom Saville, an animator at Bungie Studios, had a great job on Halo: Reach. He got to do all the stabbings. Here, then, is a highlight reel of his work. Which means it's two minutes of stabbings. More »
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This colossal infographic anchors the latest Bungie Weekly Update. Thirty-three billion have been killed in firefight, campaign and multiplayer. The smallest number: 1,000 have unlocked the "Inclement Weather" armor effect. Thanks to Ursus-Veritas for the tip. More »
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Halo: Reach got a fresh injection of new maps earlier today courtesy of the Noble Map Pack. Why many of us are content to play within the confines of Bungie's three new maps, others would prefer to explore. More »
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One of the best parts about Halo: Reach was that, for the game's all-important change of pace, the developers swapped out the awful Flood and replaced them with an enjoyable space battle sequence. More »
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At the Future of Television East conference last week, Microsoft's Frank O'Connor sat on a panel that focused on the grail of transmedia. More »
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Bungie wants you to shape its future. It's putting out the call for hundreds of thousands of committed, Halo and Marathon-loving Bungie fans to be a part of its focus testing group, a group that could become beta testers for its unannounced game. More »
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