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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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When you play Halo with a team mentality, you can always see personalities shine. Whether that is a good thing can really go either way. Free For All matches tend to always be run and gun, but how do people react when working as a team?

Probably the first personality to make its presence known is the leader. If you’re in a clan, he/she is generally the creator of it. Also be prepared because you’re probably going to hear them talk more than anyone else in the group.

When you have a leader, you’re undoubtedly going to have followers. These are the people who stick to the ideals of the team. When the leader speaks, they listen and will be the ones who stay with the pack.

The loner is generally the person in the group who can spark the more heated conversations. To them there is no leader, or followers. It’s their way, because they know what can truly bring about the winning outcome. Even if no one else agrees with them.

The fourth and final personality is the drama queen/king. They might not divide the entire team like the loner, but they’re easily just as annoying. If something is going wrong, you’re just as likely to hear them as the leader. 

So, what personalities do you see pop up when you play team based maps in Halo?

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Anyone reading this post has undoubtedly played through all of the Halo video games. If not, then stop reading and play through the trilogy right now. For those who think they’re hardcore Halo fans; just how hardcore are you?

If I say “Halo novels” will you be able to name them all and give a brief synopsis. If not, then here’s your crash course into the literary world of Halo:

Halo: The Fall of Reach: The first ever Halo novel is a prequel to the events that occur before Halo: Combat Evolved. Fall of Reach is the story about thow the SPARTAN project got started, and what the Spartans were initially trained to do.

Halo: The Flood: If you start reading the book and get a sudden feeling of deja vu, don’t worry. The reason not to worry is because this book is prett much a retelling of Halo: Combat Evolved. It is told from a different point of view though.

Halo: First Strike: Halo is a bridging story, that was released to show events that occur between Halo, and Halo 2. The novel is basically about Master Chief and a group of soldiers trying to stop the Covenant from making their way to Earth. Most of the book was written to setup the events that would occur in Halo 2.

Halo: Ghosts Of Onyx: This novel steered away from the previous books that were based on the video games. Instead in Ghosts of Onyx, the story is about side characters that are mentioned in prior books. It focuses on a group of new Spartan warriors. The book takes place mostly on Onyx that hides a secret that both the UNSC and Covenant are after.

Halo: Contact Harvest: Many consider this to be the top Halo novel in the series. It was written by an actual Bungie employee, and like Ghosts of Onyx has a storyline independent of Master Chief. It’s based mostly around Sergeant Johnson who appears in the games and the novels. On the planet Harvest there is a massive battle taking place between the Covenant and USNC. The coolest thing about the book is we get to read the beginnings of the Prophets.

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