Rampancy

With both SketchFactor and Frankie off gallivanting (no doubt accelerating at 32 feet per second per second, naturally) Shishka was left alone at the switch this week, and submitted three QuickTime 3d screenshots of Terminal in lieu of the What's What Update for last week.

Torlough of the Geezer Gamers has put up a story and a video on cheating in Containment; XBL players with modded Xboxes are apparently modifying the downloaded map files to produce various effects such as flying Warthogs and an incredibly fast Master Chief, and using them to cheat in matchmaking. Thanks HBO. (Here's hoping that Microsoft's boasts about being able to detect modified Xboxes on Xbox Live is true and that the players on the cheating team are banned--Ed.) Thanks HBO.

Ok, shoot us for not knowing this, but there are apparently two Angry Zen Masters-- Mat "MSN" Noguchi over at Bungie, and his brother Jamie "jamihn" Noguchi, who since late March of this year has been doing a webcomic called (appropriately enough) Angry Zen Master, which occasionally features both himself and his brother, Mat.

Louis Wu at HBO, alerted by mnemesis, pointed out that Halo 3 does get a mention in the latest comic... sort of. Athough AZM isn't a Halo or even a gaming comic per se, it is well worth a look.

• Samsung has started production on the 512Mb DDR3 graphics memory chips that Microsoft will use in the Xbox 360.
• DFC Intelligence is publishing a report predicting that Microsoft and Nintendo both may gain market share from Sony in the next round of the console wars; currently Sony has about 70% of the market and Microsoft and Nintendo split the remainder. The latest report is said to estimate Sony's "best case market share" of the future market at 50%, trailed by Microsoft's maximum possible of 45% and Nintendo's maximum possible at 35%.