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You'd have to be significantly disconnected from the gaming scene in the last month to not be aware of what has been going on. After participating in discussion over the issues and giving the matter some thought, I posted my own editorial rant on the matter to our forum. For those of you who know how large some of my forum posts can be, I created a less-detailed but more to-the-point condensed version.

CyberBob pointed out something that will doubtless be of interest to Bungie point collectors out there: the Bungie Store is closing. At least, for a short time, effective this Friday. From the Bungie Store page:

Hamish Sinclair of the Marathon's Story page has announced the limited edition Marathon's Story T-Shirt. They will only be available for $7 at Mac World New York this coming July. If you want to reserve your shirt in advance, you can contact John Chang. Head on over to the MS page if you want more details. (NO, not Microsoft! ;-)

Continuing the trend begun with the posting of the HaloBungie.Com Spoof! site (temporarily removed because the bandwidth requirements were putting us in the poor house), a few more items have popped up:

It's looking like this year's Mac World Expo in New York is going to be somewhat watered down. Mac Central reports that the National Mac Gaming Championships are cancelled this year and it has been confirmed that Bungie will not have an exhibit. Many companies are complaining about the increasingly exorbitant prices for booth space at the Mac World Expos and are not planning to exhibit either.

Bungie's #1 Fan, Freewill, has gone to visit Take2 Interactive at their offices in New York, and posted up his thoughts at both the Bungie Sightings front page and in a short article. He reports that Take2 is excited to see what it can do with the Myth universe, and that they'll be there at MWNY to meet some of the fan base. Bungie Sightings has now resumed normal operations and Freewill's rant has moved to its own page.

In addition to their regular coverage of the Bungie Studios issue (from whence the news broke on the 18th), Daily Radar has posted up a diagram of what titles will be developed and published by whom. However, I'm not sure if it really clarifies anything. The current information is that Take2 Interactive, as a whole, obtains the right to two royalty-free titles based upon the Halo engine.