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WikiRiot Ep 14
Sigafoos let us know that WikiRiot 14 (34 mins, 13.7 mb) is now available. Master Chief fights... Batman? (Louis Wu 17:02:13 UTC) (permalink)
Getting from A to B
Last summer, Bungie's Damián Isla gave a talk at the Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment Conference entitled "Dude, where's my Warthog? - From Pathfinding to General Spatial Competence'. We don't have audio of the talk - but the slides were pretty fascinating in their own right. If you're interested in the techniques Bungie uses to make your enemies seem smarter, and more aware of their surroundings... give this a read! Some of the multistep slides are presented here as animated gifs; they're labeled as such. If you see such a label, you should be patient an allow the image to fully load; they range in size from a couple of hundred K to about a megabyte, and you'll miss some fun stuff if you page past them too quickly. If you find the in-page slide too hard to read, there's a link to a larger version at the bottom of each page. Thanks to Damián for allowing us to host this - and to Veegie and Zechs GX for pointing it out in the first place! (Louis Wu 11:13:48 UTC) (permalink)
Frontline
Matt6908 sent us a music video for Pillar's 'Frontline' - the MPRRS liked it, for the most part. Some fantastic action shots, and cinematic eye candy. Check it out! Available in both WMP9 format (37.1 mb) and QuickTime format (41.9 mb). (Louis Wu 11:02:39 UTC) (permalink)
Phys Ed - yeah, right
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a Halo sighting in the current issue of Wired Magazine - for those who don't actually READ Wired (you should, it's chock-full of good stuff every month), you can see this online at Wired's site. Thanks to ChrisVioxxx for reminding me of this (which made me go check for the online version). Update: KP pointed out that the same issue contains a story about Lil Poison, the world's youngest pro Halo player. Well-known around here - but nice to see the wider coverage in mags like Wired! (Louis Wu 10:58:47 UTC) (permalink)
Should have seen that coming
PlasmaFire pointed out an episode of the webcomic 'This Side Up' that takes a subtle (okay, not so subtle) jab at Halo 2 recently. Give it a read! (Louis Wu 10:41:21 UTC) (permalink)
Tapping the Vein
Over the past month or so, a whole bunch of people known mostly for their presence in the Halo fan community have gotten jobs at Bungie Studios. For a lot of people, going to work for Bungie is a down-the-road goal, but the number of people hired from the fanbase has been meager for a while. Not any more. In rapid succession, Stosh (known mostly on the B.net forums), Cunbelin (an old-school fan for sure), Mrs Doublefire, and NiTrOuSoXiDe (the last two prominent members of the HaloCE community) have all started work with Bungie paychecks - I'm sure there are more I don't know about, as well. Congrats to all these guys, congrats to Bungie for taking advantage of some of the fantastic talent available in the fan community - and to everyone who strives to get a position with Bungie... know that it's possible! Update: Oops, I forgot - Pynion, an artists who posts semi-regularly on our forum, starts in less than two weeks, as well! (Louis Wu 10:26:42 UTC) (permalink)
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