Download or read book Halo A Space Opera from Bungie written by Loïc Ralet and published by Third Editions. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halo. When you read this name, a soundtrack starts playing in your ears and tons of images flash in front of your eyes. A whole universe appears in your mind. Welcome to the game series imagined and produced by the Bungie studio. Halo is more than an incredible space opera, it is the flagship of a community and the most important franchise for one of the three hardware manufacturers on the market.
Download or read book Halo written by Loic Epyon Ralet and published by . This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halo. When you read this name, a soundtrack starts playing in your ears and tons of images flash in front of your eyes. A whole universe appears in your mind. More than an first person shooter in space, Halo is the highest grossing franchise series of all time with over 80 million copies sold worldwide. The video game has spawned a whole world of content including comic books, novels, films, and a myriad of toys and products. Developed by Bungie and produced by 343 Studios, this books it the ultimate history of the Halo franchise, from its sci-fi inception in 2001 to the release of Halo: Infinite in December 2021.
Download or read book The Mysteries of Monkey Island written by Nicolas Deneschau and published by Third Editions. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That was the only target set for those 20 or so young, ambitious, hilarious and unkempt creators. Lucasfilm GamesTM, soon to be LucasArtsTM, would become a legendary developer, not least because it was within its walls that The Secret of Monkey IslandTM was created in 1990. The best-known of the Point & Click adventure games, Monkey Island earned its reputation from its world of colorful, delightfully anachronistic pirates, its trademark Monty Python-style humor, and, quite simply, the fact that it revolutionized a genre. This book is an homage to the adventures of Guybrush ThreepwoodTM, pirate extraordinaire. But it also aspires—quite ambitiously—to explain why Monkey Island marks a pivotal milestone in the way stories are told through video games. It’s also an opportunity to look back at the tumultuous history of LucasArts and Telltale Games, to discover some voodoo grog recipes, to learn interactive pirate reggae songs, to impress at a party of 40-year-old geeks, and to discover one-liners as sharp as a cutlass (great for duels and birthdays).
Download or read book Halo written by Loïc Ralet and published by Third Editions. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A la découverte de Halo et de ses origines. Halo. À la seule évocation de ce nom, une bande-son s’impose à vos oreilles et une cascade d’images défi le devant vos yeux. Tout un univers apparaît alors dans votre esprit. Bienvenue au sein de la série de jeux imaginée et réalisée par le studio Bungie. Halo, plus qu’un space opera incroyable, c’est le porte-étendard d’une communauté, la mascotte d’une marque, la licence la plus importante pour l’un des trois constructeurs de consoles du marché. Halo, c’est une passion pour Loïc Ralet qui depuis des années collectionne toutes sortes d’informations sur le jeu ou ses créateurs : coupures de presse, entretiens, vidéos, déclarations sur les forums ou les réseaux sociaux... Pour rédiger cet ouvrage, il a passé un an à trier ses notes, à décortiquer les niveaux des jeux et à interviewer les pères du Master Chief : Alexander Seropian (co-fondateur de Bungie), Marcus Lehto (directeur artistique et créateur du Master Chief) et Martin O’Donnell (compositeur des bandes-son), entre autres. Ainsi, il vous livre un ouvrage complet allant des coulisses de la création du jeu à l’analyse de son gameplay en passant par l’étude de l’univers élargi et, surtout, la rencontre avec les hommes et les femmes qui ont fait Halo, tel que Bungie l’a voulu. Découvrez, dans un ouvrage complet et documenté, les coulisses de la création de Halo et la vision de ses créateurs. EXTRAIT Si, aujourd’hui, Halo est entre les mains aimantes de 343 Industries, il n’en a pas toujours été ainsi. L’histoire de la saga du Master Chief est intimement liée à celle de Bungie, son créateur originel. À tel point qu’il est impossible de les séparer l’un de l’autre, quand bien même le studio a définitivement tourné la page et œuvre désormais à raconter de nouvelles histoires, dans un autre univers. Pour comprendre l’histoire de Halo, il est donc primordial de remonter à la naissance de Bungie et surtout au parcours de deux hommes, Alexander Seropian et Jason Jones. Car, comme souvent dans l’histoire du jeu vidéo, tout a commencé avec une simple rencontre. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Passionné de jeux vidéo depuis sa plus tendre enfance, Loïc "Epyon" Ralet rêve d’en faire sa carrière, mais oublie ce qu’il perçoit comme un rêve inatteignable une fois son Baccalauréat en poche. Alors qu’il se destinait au journalisme politique, il est approché par jeuxvideo.com en 2013, qui lui offre dans un premier temps un poste de community manager. Y voyant l’opportunité rêvée pour travailler pour le site qu’il suit depuis presque quinze ans, il accepte et quitte donc ses études pour aller s’installer dans le Cantal. Il rejoint la rédaction quelques mois plus tard et devient peu à peu le spécialiste Xbox de l’équipe. Désormais domicilié en région parisienne, suite au déménagement de jeuxvideo.com, il passe désormais ses journées à écrire des articles trop longs en sirotant du thé, confortablement assis entre sa femme et son chat. Une situation stable qui lui permet de cultiver ses deux vices, l’amour des sneakers et celui des gros robots japonais.
Download or read book Halo Shadows of Reach written by Troy Denning and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY BESTSELLER A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! October 2559. It has been a year since the renegade artificial intelligence Cortana issued a galaxy-wide ultimatum, subjecting many worlds to martial law under the indomitable grip of her Forerunner weapons. Outside her view, the members of Blue Team—John-117, the Master Chief; Fred-104; Kelly-087; and Linda-058—are assigned from the UNSC Infinity to make a covert insertion onto the ravaged planet Reach. Their former home and training ground—and the site of humanity’s most cataclysmic military defeat near the end of the Covenant War—Reach still hides myriad secrets after all these years. Blue Team’s mission is to penetrate the rubble-filled depths of CASTLE Base and recover top-secret assets locked away in Dr. Catherine Halsey’s abandoned laboratory—assets which may prove to be humanity’s last hope against Cortana. But Reach has been invaded by a powerful and ruthless alien faction, who have their own reasons for being there. Establishing themselves as a vicious occupying force on the devastated planet, this enemy will soon transform Blue Team’s simple retrieval operation into a full-blown crisis. And with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, mission failure is not an option…
Download or read book Halo The Flood written by William C. Dietz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling adaptation of the iconic video game Halo: Combat Evolved featuring the Master Chief—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series! 2552. Having barely escaped the final battle for Reach against the vast alien alliance known as the Covenant, the crew of the Pillar of Autumn, including Spartan John-117—the Master Chief—and his AI companion Cortana, is forced to make a desperate escape into slipspace. But their destination brings them to an ancient mystery and an even greater struggle. In this far-flung corner of the universe floats a magnificently massive, artificial ringworld. The crew’s only hope of survival is to crash-land on its surface and take the battle opposing the Covenant to the ground. But they soon discover that this enigmatic ringworld is much more than it seems. Built one hundred thousand years ago by a long-lost civilization known as the Forerunners, this “Halo” is worshipped by the Covenant—a sacred artifact they hope will complete their religious quest for supposed transcendence, and they will stop at nothing to control it. Engaging in fierce combat, Master Chief and Cortana will go deep into the Halo construct and uncover its dark secret and true purpose—even as a monstrous and far more vicious enemy than the Covenant emerges to threaten all sentient life on Halo and the galaxy beyond…
Download or read book Starhammer written by Christopher B. Rowley and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1986 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe is dominated by the Laowan Imperium, aliens who use humans as slaves and pets. One day Jon Iehard, a former slave, is charged with hunting a terrorist who holds half the key to a weapon capable of destroying the Laowan empire.
Download or read book Characters of Halo written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dragon Never Sleeps written by Glen Cook and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four thousand years, the Guardships have ruled Canon Space—immortal ships with an immortal crew, dealing swiftly and harshly with any mercantile houses or alien races that threaten the status quo. But now the House Tregesser has an edge: a force from outside Canon Space offers them the resources to throw off Guardship rule. This precipitates an avalanche of unexpected outcomes, including the emergence of Kez Maefele, one of the few remaining generals of the Ku Warrior race-the only race to ever seriously threaten Guardship hegemony. Kez Maefele and a motley group of aliens, biological constructs, an scheming aristocrats find themselves at the center of the conflict. Maefele must chose which side he will support: the Guardships, who defeated and destroyed his race, or the unknown forces outside Canon Space that promise more death and destruction.
Download or read book Halo The Rubicon Protocol written by Kelly Gay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY BESTSELLER An original novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! A HALO INFINITE STORY December 2559. Humanity has its back against the wall after the United Nations Space Command flagship Infinity drops out of slipspace into a devastating ambush launched by the Banished. As this fierce enemy alliance seeks to claim a mysterious object hidden within the ancient Forerunner construct known as Zeta Halo, the surviving UNSC corps finds itself compromised and its leadership out of reach—with remaining personnel forced to abandon ship and take their chances on the fractured, unpredictable surface of the Halo ring. Now survival in this strange, alien environment—whether for Spartan super-soldiers or those who never thought they would see the battle up close—is measured day to day against a relentless and brutal adversary that always has the upper hand. Desperation grows, but the will to keep on fighting and enduring no matter the odds is never in doubt…even as the Banished seek to unleash a frightening new enemy that could doom them all…
Download or read book Halo written by Loïc Ralet and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage revient sur les coulisses de création des différents épisodes, l'histoire complète de tous les jeux ainsi que les grandes thématiques qui traversent la série. Loïc ‘‘Epyon'' Ralet, journaliste pour jeuxvideo.com (site d'actualité jeu vidéo le plus important d'Europe), est considéré comme le spécialiste Xbox, Microsoft, Bungie et surtout Halo.
Download or read book Halo Silentium written by Greg Bear and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood--a horrifying shape-changing parasite--has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect testimony from the Librarian and both Didacts: the Ur-Didact, treacherously abandoned in a Flood-infested system, and the Bornstellar Didact, who accompanies the Librarian as she preserves specimens against the dire possibility of Halo extermination.Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization, the Librarian and the Ur-Didact reveal what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished Precursors and the Flood. The Precursors created many technological species, including humanity and the Forerunners. But the roots of the Flood may be found in an act of enormous barbarity, carried out beyond our galaxy ten million years before...Because of that barbarism, a greater evil looms. Only the Ur-Didact and the Librarian--husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict--hold the keys to a solution. Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy, one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time--to prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe"--
Download or read book Fallen Dragon written by Peter F. Hamilton and published by Aspect. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the distant future, corporations have become sustainable communities with their own militaries, and corporate goals have essentially replaced political ideology. On a youthful, rebellious impulse, Lawrence joined the military of a corporation that he now recognizes to be ruthless and exploitative. His only hope for escape is to earn enough money to buy his place in a better corporation. When his platoon is sent to a distant colony to quell a local resistance effort, it seems like a stroke of amazing fortune, and Lawrence plans to rob the colony of their fabled gemstone, the Fallen Dragon, to get the money he needs. However, he soon discovers that the Fallen Dragon is not a gemstone at all, but an alien life form that the local colonists have been protecting since it crashed in their area. Now, Lawrence has to decide if he will steal the alien to exploit the use of its inherent biotechnical processes -- which far exceed anything humans are capable of -- or if he will help the Resistance get the alien home.
Download or read book Ringworld written by Larry Niven and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1985-09-12 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel Four travelers come to the ringworld. . . Louis Wu: human and old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it. Nessus: a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern of nonviolence. Except that this particular puppeteer is insane. Teela Brown: human; a wide-eyed youngster with no allegiances, no experience, no abilities. And all the luck in the world. Speaker-To-Animals: kzin; large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. And one of the most savage life-forms known in the galaxy. Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together? And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed?
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Download or read book Music In Video Games written by K.J. Donnelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, video game music has gone through its own particular set of stylistic and functional metamorphoses while both borrowing and recontextualizing the earlier models from which it borrows. With topics ranging from early classics like Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. to more recent hits like Plants vs. Zombies, the eleven essays in Music in Video Games draw on the scholarly fields of musicology and music theory, film theory, and game studies, to investigate the history, function, style, and conventions of video game music.
Download or read book The Monster Baru Cormorant written by Seth Dickinson and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking geopolitical epic fantasy, The Monster Baru Cormorant is the sequel to Seth Dickinson's "fascinating tale" (The Washington Post), The Traitor Baru Cormorant. Her world was shattered by the Empire of Masks. For the power to shatter the Masquerade, She betrayed everyone she loved. The traitor Baru Cormorant is now the cryptarch Agonist—a secret lord of the empire she's vowed to destroy. Hunted by a mutinous admiral, haunted by the wound which has split her mind in two, Baru leads her dearest foes on an expedition for the secret of immortality. It's her chance to trigger a war that will consume the Masquerade. But Baru's heart is broken, and she fears she can no longer tell justice from revenge...or her own desires from the will of the man who remade her. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
