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I'm pleased to announce that Bungie Fanfest IV is set for tomorrow, Friday,January 12 from 6pm-9pm here in San Francisco, CA.

Peter Cohen described the Fanfest best:

Kudos to Gawyn and 3of9 for pointing out a little change at the Bungie Store. Now password protected, behind the StoreDev realm, the store appears to be under re-development. What lies behind the password screen? And more importantly, can anyone guess the password? Where are the 1337 h4x0r d00dz when you need them...

The February issue of Computer Gaming World posted The 10 Most Anticipated Games of 2001 in its Read.Me section. I'll quote the appropriate portions of the list:

I swear, you look away from the Bungie Sightings page for three freakin' days...*ahem*

The fourth Bungie Fanfest is now officially scheduled for January 12, 2001, at the West Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. The BS page has huge steaming mounds of info on the event--admission price, times, directions, contests, celebrity attendees--so head over there and eddicate yerself.

Tonight's the night! People are already filing into the X-Box chat room at IGN, so you'd be well-advised to head on over and join up! The room name is #xbox.

Don't have an IRC client? Don't worry... IGN supplies a Java client right here that'll connect you automatically after you log in. Seeya there!

Kudos to Shadowfax, who pointed out a pleasant surprise from the folks at xbox.ign.com. Apparently, they've signed up (or perhaps kidnapped) one or more Bungie employees, and will be subjecting them to a public chat session come Wednesday. A relevant excerpt:

Waaay down in our community forum, Matt responds to our request for more information on the Bungie Webmaster... and we get much more than we originally expected!

The elusive but ever present Mojo has weighed in on the recent Bungie poll pitting several community webmasters with a new comic at his Bungie Jumping site. An accurate depiction of the current state of the poll, but any scholar of the northern martial arts will recognize that as the embracing Mother Earth stance, a common precursor to the devastating Grizzly Crusher ...