A number of very interesting news items at Marathon's Story today, ranging from Cortana references in Oni kanji to the nature (and release date) of the mysterious #2. Definitely worth stopping by and checking out.
Our congratulations to former-Bungian Nathan Bitner, who announced an impending wedding (among other things) in halo.bungie.org's forum. Best wishes to the new couple, and enjoy your freedom while you can Nathan. ;)
Kudos to SpacemanSpiff for exposing this dramatic revelation in Halo's ongoing development: according to this transcript there not only exists a playable demo of Halo already, but it's spread beyond Bungie!
Ye gods!!
Well, this concludes our evening broadcast. Be listening again tomorrow when we announce Halo 2: Soulbringer, and provide release dates for all future Bungie releases.
This week's question comes from a few off topic posts in the forum about melee combat in Halo: should complex melee combat, which would include things like blocking and various melee strikes, play a major role in Halo? Or would such things detract from netplay and just not add too much fun to the game?
Some good results this week, fairly even and not quite as lopsided as past weeks. When asked if Halo should contain male and female models (as opposed to using a single human model and avoiding sexism altogether), around 250 voters had this to say:
Good news for North American Halo junkies. Charles of Inside Mac Games passed along a few comments made by Bungie's Doug Zartman confirming the previously rumored Halo movie on an upcoming IncitePC magazine CD:
I guess it was inevitable... an anonymous source supplied me with a login and password to an FTP site yesterday, pointing me in the direction of the German PC Action Oni/Halo movie. While Bungie has requested that this movie not be distributed over the net, I couldn't resist downloading...
Posted too soon, it seems. A translated copy of the German PC Action article has been posted at halo.bungie.org, and while it's brief and lacking in any new information, they've got the most realistic release dates and system requirements I've seen yet. Our thanks as well to Harry Al-Shakarchi for the translation!
