Chris Barylick at Macgamer managed to nab an interview with Bungie's Matt Soell at E3, and covered a rather wide range of topics. Thanks again to Louis Wu at HBO.
On Bungie doing another Myth or Oni game:
A short article at computerandvideogames.com is confirming what's been said by Bungie all along, that there will be no separate Halo Online title, but the version of Halo that will first use MS' Xbox Live gaming service will be a full sequel.
In other words, Halo 2 looks officially announced at this point, even if there are no other details available.
Patroclus' homage to Mystery Science Theatre, complete with appropriate Bungie references is now here at R.net in 2Mb and 10Mb sizes. Thanks for the heads-up to Louis Wu at HBO.
The theme song from Mystery Science Theater 3000, set to video from Halo 1, by Patroclus.
Jason Loonyboi Bergman from Shacknews recently interviewed Chris DiCesar, Microsoft Games' group PR manager, about the status of the PC/Mac ports of Halo. In terms of when it will happen, DiCesar said it's still up in the air . He also indicates that no actual work has even begun on the port:
Sometime in the future, we may all have our hands on the game that Bungie originally intended to make when they began work on Halo.
And no, we're not talking about the Mac/PC version (which, by the way, will still happen, as far as everyone knows).
No, we're talking about a version of Halo featuring online multiplayer for MS' Xbox Live gaming service that is slated to begin beta testing later this year.
Yeroen at Bungie.net, Louis Wu at HBO and dr. britney spears at RHL all let us know that the Halo Soundtrack's release date has been set: June 11, 2002.
The complete story is at music4games.net. Preorders are being taken in the Bungie Store.
David Candyman Candland of Bungie.net is reporting that Official Xbox Magazine subscribers received the Halo demo with their edition this month. It includes a Normal difficulty version of Silent Cartographer... apparently with a different ending...
Well, since there's no official word-- in fact, there are official denials going back quite awhile-- take this note with a few heaping tablespoons of salt.
But Bella Online's Lisa Shea isn't backing down off her insinuation that Halo will be broadband enabled:
It should be out in another month or two, as the main core of the XBox broadband rollout. I am VERY eagerly waiting for that.
Pressed to confirm, she stated:
We've mirrored two new Halo movies here at Rampancy: the first is the third Halo Movie trailer from Blackstar Productions. It's available here, at the Blackstar Productions website, and from Mythica.org.
