Rampancy

Louis Wu at HBO passes on word from Dustin Kaufman that Hasmid Hamilton Camp, earlier known as Bob Camp and most recently known as the Prophet of Mercy in Halo 2, passed away of a heart attack in October of this year. Camp's wife, Rasjadah, passed away in 2002. They had six children and thirteen grandchildren.

Nick from HaloDev, with the help of Grenadiac and MonoxideC, has put up a massive update on the progress they've made on their Halo map editor, Prometheus. Prometheus is intended to be an easier-to-use alternative to the Halo Editing Kit, with additional features.

The big news in the update is that it can make brand-new maps that you can play on an Xbox:

Amped IGO Features has an article up detailing the successes and failures of the original Xbox. Chief among the former, naturally, was Microsoft's acquisition of Bungie Software to bring Halo to their fledgling console.

Thanks 3Suns, who pointed this out in the HBO forum.

If it's written enough times, it might just become the truth. DailyGame is repeating rumors of Xbox 360 shortages, saying that Microsoft may have lowered the estimate of how many consoles will be available on launch day, and many retailers are listing even their extremely expensive bundles as "sold out" in response.