[image:10049 right hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] This week's Bungie Update starts with some information on Play! A Video Game Symphony that is a rival to the Video Games Live concert series from last year You remember, the one you couldn't go to because so many dates were cancelled. Ahem. Marty O'Donnell and Mike Salvatori will be on hand to sign autographs and hang out when Play! comes to Chicago, which will be on May 27, 2006 at the Rosemont Theatre.

The program will include music from Halo, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Morrowind and others. The series has five scheduled dates, two in the US (Chicago and Philadelphia) and shows in Stockholm, Sweden, Vienna, Austria and Toronto, Canada. There is also (gasp!) information about The Next Project. Still nothing substantive, but hey, at least they've decided to put away the word CENSORED for a few years to give it a rest.

Our next project is going swimmingly. Lots of stuff is up and running, in fact, Sketch just got our debug 360 set up so that we can actually download the latest "build" of the game whenever we feel like it. Our main reason for needing builds right now is to start the documentation of a "making-of" process. Now that might end up simply being an internal record of the game's development stages, or it might be a book, or a DVD extra, we have no clue and no plan for that material at this stage, but we learned a lesson from Halo 1 & 2, which is that we should document everything, from a render to a napkin-scrawl.

I could be wrong, but this may be the first actual confirmation of any actual information: that Bungie's Next Project is for the Xbox 360. As if we didn't know that, but hey, it's something.