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If you have been trying to access the forum in the last few minutes, don't panic. The A.I. here at Rampancy isn't raising hell again; we're just updating some things with the server right now. Hopefully the forum will be available within a relatively short period of time. In the mean time you can always visit RHL if you have the desire to gab.

Just a little interesting tidbit. I was idly scanning through the Internic database a few nights before E3 and noticed that Bungie had registered all three konoko top-level domains (com, net and org) on March 17th. I asked some Bungie folk about them at E3 but they aren't yet reporting any solid plans. I wonder when we might see something appear at konoko.com.

After speaking with Bungie's Doug Zartman on the reports at Blue's News and Gamefan about Oni netplay being scrapped, we have some mixed news. Yes, those reports are true--the sentiment around here is universally do it properly, or don't do it all. Due to the latency issues with Oni's netplay (apparently there were modem builds, and they simply didn't work out), it was decided that internet play wasn't going to work out. And due to the investment in time required to create netmaps and netgames for LAN players, LAN play was shelved in the interest of concentrating on the solo game.

Just a quick update from the floor, courtesy of GameWeek's poorly defended computers. Same shows and demos as yesterday, though we'll have another two articles up tonight or tomorrow, for Halo and Oni both.

Additionally, according to the buzz around here, private showings of a new game have been going on behind closed doors. While we're unlikely to see it or extract any details short of shedding blood, the general feeling is that it will succeed in being cooler than Halo... whoo? Stay tuned.