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If you’ve been wanting to get into game design, and love Halo now is the perfect time to strike. Bungie is hiring en masse and there are a good variety of jobs available.

Here is a list of some job titles currently available with Bungie:

Lighting Artist: Turn on the bright lights, indeed. We’re looking for someone who wants to shine bright…

Server Programmer: Bungie Studios is looking for an experienced developer of server-side software to create and maintain scalable services to communicate with our games and our internal development tools.

Test Supervisor: As a Test Supervisor at Bungie, your responsibilities will include hiring, training, building and supervising large teams of quality assurance contingent staff.

Graphics Engineer: Bungie is seeking a software engineer with a passion for graphics, who is interested in pushing the state of the art of real time CG to a level previous considered unattainable, and do it all in close collaboration with the world’s most talented artists, in a creative endeavor to create the best video games ever.

Engine Programmer: Are you the person that others come to when they can’t debug their code? Bring your thirst for knowledge and fuse it with our talented team.

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I think Bungie’s site is at its best when there isn’t any killer news to report. This week it’s been mostly about Halo 3: Recon, but with not much to say about it they held an open Q&A forum with their site users.

Like with most Q&A’s, there were some morons that showed up but there were some questions of worth, that followed with interesting answers. Here are some of them:

Q: In the news earlier, it was said that Halo Wars will come with the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack including three maps. What happened to the other three? Aren’t they part of the Mythic Map Pack too? Did we just read wrong and when you were referring to the Map Pack, you guys meant all six of them. Any clarification would be wonderful.

A: This question has popped up a handful of times around the Internet. The Mythic Map Pack in question (comprised of Assembly, Orbital and Sandbox) will be included as part of the Limited Edition of Halo Wars. Those are the only Halo 3 maps that will be bundled with Halo Wars.

Q: I believe I remember Shishka mentioning that there might be a playlist with user created content in it. Is there any more info on that, or am I delusional?

A: Shishka was here super duper late earlier this week looking at exactly this sort of thing. I even saw Jones stop by Shishka’s desk to watch him run around some user created map. Jones said, “Huh, this looks neat.” And before you ask, no, it wasn’t something that was messaged to him via Live, it was something he found here on the site using the tagging system. That said, he’s looking at maps pretty regularly, but the quality of them is mostly in line with the quality of this batch of questions. That doesn’t mean that they won’t be used in some fashion. Shishka’s thinking about using them for a new content series here at B.net titled, “What Not to Do in Forge.”

Q: How is the render-to-video feature coming along?

A: It’s still in the works and it’s still shaping up to be sweet. The Wolf is hard at work on it and it’s going to take a giant mountain of servers and flowing rivers of bandwidth.

For The Full Q & A, click here.

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For those who like to frequent Bungie.net for Halo updates, you should know the site itself is changing. Bungie has announced changes specifically to the File Sharing section. Here are a few key updates to look out for, and what those changes are.

Tagging – I was surprised that this feature wasn’t already part of the File Share section. Just like tagging on anyother site, any file can have a tag added to it either by the creator, or others. Once it’s added, the relevancy can be increased to show up better for search results

File Sets – This feature allows for “grouping” of files based on certain categories. It helps in streamlining the search process, and also maybe finding resources you wouldn’t know about originally.

Ratings – The ratings system has changed, and is now going by a 1-10 system instead of the 1-5 system. They’re all pretty arbitrary numbers, but atleast it would give a larger range to sort through.

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