Recorded on April Fools, but it's no joke!


Time to dust off the headphones and sink deep into the couch - The Bungie Podcast is back.  Concept Artist Dorje Bellbrook graces the Bungie Podcast for the first time to talk about artful skyboxes and artistic inspirations, and Dan Miller drops in to talk about life, love, and the Mythic Map Pack. Shishka stops by to close out the show with some Matchmaking love.

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Designers Lars Bakken and Shishka join the Bungie Podcast this week. One talks about DLC and the other talks about the fate of SWAT.


It's been some indeterminate, irregular period of time, which means, it's time for another episode of the Bungie Podcast. In this show, Lars Bakken talks up the Legendary Maps and new hire/old homie Chad "Shishka" Armstrong debuts on the Podcast and at some point talks a bit about the fate of Team SWAT.

Bungie Podcast 041108 (58:11) [54 MB]

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Just in case you missed the note in Friday's Weekly Update:

Engineering Lead Chris Butcher joins the Bungie Podcast for an insightful gaze into the future of games and technology. After a quick (and fake) commercial break, Microsoft's Major Nelson, and "engineer of the Microsoft hype train" (our words, not his) takes his place in the first-ever seat of heat. How did he fare?

Bungie Podcast 031908 (1:32:37) [85 MB]

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Christopher Barrett, the creative director on Halo 3's downloadable content sits, cracks open a cold one and chats about DLC, old school Bungie and how he got started in the game industry.

Long has it been, friends! Vacations have come and went (for Brian and Frankie) and the crew finally reconvened with special guest Christopher Barrett to talk about Halo 3's Heroic Map Pack, how he started at Bungie, what he's worked on and what's been canned.

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It's almost 2 hours long and boasts Marty O'Donnell, Joseph Staten and Web Dev Lead Chris Gossett--it's Bungie Podcast Time.


While we don't acknowledge it on the show, this Podcast is actually the year anniversary of the Bungie Podcast. To unknowingly commemorate that feat, Marty O'Donnell, Joe Staten and Web Dev Lead Chris Gossett take a turn on the mic. Chris talks extensively about the new Bungie.net and its robust featureset. Marty talks about the Halo 3 Soundtrack and Joe Staten catches us up on his book "Contact Harvest" and what he was doing in New Zealand last week.

Because it's the last show before Halo 3 launches, we made it super long, nearly two hours of chatter this week -- just think, that's two hours closer to actually buying Halo 3.

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This week's edition of the Bungie Studios Podcast is coming next week.


Due to the technical challenge of taming Mat Noguchi's rage, (read: Actually, Sketch, Frank and I are all out of town next week, scattered to three of the Earth's corners, so we're delaying the podcast until early next week to split the difference until the next show) the Bungie Podcast has been delayed until next week. While next week's show won't feature the much-maligned interview with the Furious One, it is a show focused completely on Forge with the dulcet tones of Tyson Green and the pleasant timbre of Lars Bakken purring into the mic. Patience is a virtue.

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We're not joking. The hiatus is over. The end is nigh: The Bungie Podcast is back.


After nearly a year (who really is to blame?), the Bungie Podcast has left the nest and spread its wings. Instead of a bird, it's a fierce dragon and the below download is your seat on the fire-breathing winged beast's back. Joining me this week in the studio are podcast veterans Brian Jarrard and Frank O'Connor, with special guest star Multiplayer Designer Lars Bakken rounding out the four-part harmony. We talk about some of the studio's preparations for E3, Bungie's Technical Lead Chris Butcher stops in for a few minutes and finally, a very special guest phones in to the Bungie Teen Support Line. All of this and more on the Bungie Podcast.

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