The Junkyard has interviewed thirteen members of the gaming fansite community, releasing interviews one by one over the next two weeks. Here's who you can expect interviews from and when:

• Day 1:†Manveer 'Eidolon' Heir, Voodoo Extreme
• Day 2:†Ben 'Hypn0tik' Tamler, Tribes Universe
• Day 3:†Matt 'Acrappa' Martinez, Rampancy.net
• Day 4:†Joscha 'fraGGle' Dzielak, Tribes 2.de
• Day 5:†Tyler 'TySoft' Lott, Planet Tribes
• Day 6:†Rob 'Keltic' Shea, Proving Grounds
• Day 7:†Louis Wu, halo.bungie.org
• Day 8:†John 'Rizzuh' Jensen, Counter Strike Nation
• Day 9:†Brian Clair, Adrenaline Vault
• Day 10:†Anthony 'Rayn' Maio, Tribal War
• Day 11:†Adam 'Barak' Perfect, Halo Players
• Day 12:†Frans P. de Vries, Blues News
• Day 13:†Dave 'Fargo' Kosak, Gamespy

This being day one, you can read the interview with Manveer Heir already.

Utterer has asked Andrew Meggs Ten Irrelevant Questions. It is entertaining to see such diverse questions answered in such an intellectual manner. Meggs, you never seize to impress me!

Dead Glory has updated his site once again with the results of a recent poll he offered at dg.rules.it. Over 180 fans voiced their opinions on this Bungie poll, so read their responses if you're interested.

Those of you who have been trying to solve the glyphs puzzle over at Bungie.org will finally be relieved, as it has finally been solved. Apparently, they say ARRIVAL ARCHIVE OUTLINE . They have setup a pretty extensive site over at arrival.bungie.org, which must be accessed using login ARCHIVE and password OUTLINE. Congratulations to all who contributed!

Community member Dead Glory has posted interviews with three community all-stars on his site, dg.rules.it. If you care for Louis Wu (HBO), Pallor, (IslandFour.org) or Acrappa (coolest dude ever), then you will want to read their thoughts on Bungie and the community.

For some odd reason, that site has some trouble in my browser (OS X IE 5.1), but it works fine in alternate browsers. If you're having trouble, just switch browsers.

Mumbo Jumbo, developers of Myth III, have setup a webcam so you can see what they are doing. At this time, they have got a huge pyramid of Diet Coke and an explanation of what it's all about. It might be difficult to read the text since the site keeps auto-refreshing, so here's a copy and paste of what it says:

Both Andrew and I figured that no matter how hard we try, we aren't going to beat John at coding. It took us awhile but we finally came up with something we could compete with. We asked John how much diet coke he drinks in a day. It came out to roughly 120oz, or 4.26 liters.

That fueled bad things. Through hard calculations we found that one 12oz can is equal to exactly 1/10 the amount of diet coke John drinks. Diet cokes are now colorfully reffered to as deci-carmacks . If Andrew or I drink 10 cans in a day, we are rewarded with a warm fuzzy feeling that we have become an equal to John, and we draw a little carmack on our whiteboard to keep track of past days.

One day I tried a whacky trick and actually tried to beat the JC record. I was going to drink 24 deci-carmacks ( or 10.2 liters ) in one 8 our period. To keep this pace I had to drink one deci-carmack every 20 minutes. That may not seem difficult, and it wasn't until roughly coke number 17. I was so wired I was having uncontrollable spasms and almost killed myself when I tripped walking for another one. So I never did achieve my goal. In the last 3 months Andrew and I have constructed a John carmack shrine in the corner of our office. It currently contains over 600 cans and stands 6ft high. Andrew and I have drank each and every one of these by ourselves.

Beat that John! :)

-- Joe Riedel.
-- Myth III Programmer, Mumbo Jumbo Games

Check it out for yourself.

The ill-fated Dreamcast notwithstanding, this year's E3 is witnessing the first serious attempts to bring some of the advantages enjoyed by computer gamers since the commercialization of the Internet-- multiplayer against human opponents, online communities, replayability, and perhaps even user-contributed modifications and scenarios-- to the much larger audiences that play games on dedicated console machines.

Sites around the web are focusing on this trend, and how the Big Four in console gaming are reacting: Sony, Nintendo, Sega and now Microsoft. News.com is reporting on these issues from E3, and Wired News is also chronicling this struggle between behemoths.

Sega is getting out of the hardware business-- none to soon, either-- and will instead make games for the other companies, some of them slated to have networking support.

Microsoft is building ethernet into its Xbox, even though it is now rumored that Internet play may not be available on the date of the console's launch.

Sony is readying a broadband adapter for the PlayStation 2.

Nintendo is being the most cautious to date. The News.com article quotes Peter Main, senior vice president of Nintendo America, as saying:

We're being honest in saying we're still working on it, Main said, adding that many of the current business plans for online gaming are likely to end up in the dot-com ash can...great technology, interesting concept, no consumers.

We're betting Microsoft is more bullish on the prospects, but even large and successful companies can make mistakes. Here's hoping Microsoft's BoBs don't turn out to be like Microsoft Bob.

InsideMacGames has just placed a feature on music in video games, which includes an interview with Marty O'Donnell of Total Audio. O'Donnell gives his thoughts on the current state of music in games, the industry, and how he envisioned it to be by 2001 and how it is. O'Donnell worked on the Oni and Myth soundtracks, so it's interesting to see his perspective.