Moore Than You Ever Wanted To Know
GameDaily interviewed Peter Moore of Microsoft about the Xbox 360; Halo and Halo 2 get mentioned in the usual backwards-compatibility context. Thanks HBO.
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Backwards Compatibility Programmer Goes Public
Microsoft programmer and Mac user Michael Brundage is working on making the Xbox 360 backwards compatible. He's opened something he says is not a blog, but does contain some information about Xbox 360 backwards compatibility. Thanks Kiziko.
Mac Halo Will Be Patched
MacSoft support has confirmed by email that Mac Halo will get a patch to bring it back into sync with the recently-released 1.07 patch for the PC client and server.
Ars Technica Looks At Xbox 360
Ars Technica has put up part one of their Inside the Xbox 360 series, called Procedural Synthesis and Dynamic Worlds. The six-page article contains a lot of technical information for those interested in the console's inner workings.
Look, Ma, No Wires
RTX Telecom has announced that Microsoft has chosen them to help develop the wireless interface for the Xbox 360's controllers. Thanks BDGamer.
Halo News Roundup For May 25, 2005
Short of time today, so just a few quick Halo news notes:
- XerxdeeJ notes in the HBO forum the weekly update at the Tied The Leader weblog, covering backwards compatibility in consoles and other topics.
- $t@nKy points out that Warlock has been ported to Halo Custom Edition.
- Louis Wu points out the 1.07 update for PC Halo.
- SketchFactor has also written up his own summary of the goings-on in Bungie's E3 booth. No secrets are revealed and no lemurs are harmed... too much.
Gamer's Manifesto: Stop The Bull
Major Nelson has linked to A Gamers' Manifesto at Pointlesswasteoftime.com; it's a nicely-done but adult-language rant asking for game companies to make better AI, stop exaggerating graphics and ruining immersion, among other things. It's also worth pointing out at this time Life after the Video Game Crash, a prediction that the video game industry will falter due to its many ills after this year, and Burn The House Down, a GDC panel featuring Warren Spector, Brenda Laurel, Jason Della Rocca and Chris Hecker about those many ills.
New Maps Draw Fans At E3
Ender Illes made a short photo essay and writeup about the Bungie booth at E3 2005, where the next five multiplayer maps were available for play. SketchFactor has put it up at Bungie.net.
What's most interesting is the quote by Bungie in response to Gates' Halo 3 "announcement":
We are very flattered. Its hard to believe that a man as powerful as him holds Halo in such a high regard. He places a lot of faith in us, and it's flattering.
The quote isn't attributed to anyone in particular, but the photo that accompanies it does include Jaime "Flawless Cowboy" Griesemer, lead designer on Halo 2, as well as Marty O'Donnell.
Gates' Halo 3 Release Date Only A 'Maybe'
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Microsoft senior vice president and chief Xbox officer Robbie Bach all but says that Bill Gates misspoke himself at E3 when he referred to Halo 3 being used to blunt Sony's launch of the PlayStation 3.
At E3, Gates said "It's perfect. The day Sony launches, and they walk right into Halo 3." Meanwhile, Frankie told Bungie fans the week before E3 that no announcements were imminent, and now Bach is saying "We haven't announced anything on what Bungie is doing or where we're going with the future of the 'Halo' franchise." The specific language does more than just retract Gates' statement, it confirms Bungie's treasured independence from Microsoft:
With all respect to Bill, I don't run Bungie's studio, and neither does he. We'll work with the Bungie guys and let people know."
There's no indication there of anything relating to Halo being done by anyone other than Bungie, despite the fact that Gates didn't mention Bungie by name. So, as incredible as it sounds, it seems as if Gates was just off the mark on this one. As it stands, when Sony announced a projected launch date for their new console of "spring 2006" as the article cites, it changed Gates' deadline from being difficult to meet to being next to impossible.
Thanks to Louis Wu of HBO for the heads-up on this story.
Bungie Has No Comment On Gates' Halo 3 Announcement
Last week's What's What Update by Frankie at Bungie.net was inaccessible to us for awhile over the weekend, as was all of Bungie.net; however, we can load it now to point out the response to Bill Gates' announcement at E3 that the Sony PlayStation 3 launch would "run right into Halo 3", despite remarks in the previous WWU that Bungie's next project would not be announced for some time.
The question and answer in full from the update:
Aaron asks,
Bill Gates said you guys were working on Halo 3 in Time Magazine. If you deny this, or try to talk your way around it, you're basically saying he's a jerk. So is he? Is he a jerk?
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No, he's awesome. Seriously. I once asked him if he had underwater speakers in his pool and he totally didn't have me killed for insolence. And for the record, he does. His subaquatic sound system is better than my terrestrial one.
It's worth noting that Gates actually never mentioned Bungie at all; just Halo 3. Frankie, of course, has avoided the question entirely, so it looks like we're in for a bit of a wait before we find out what's really going on. Emails regarding this question to various Bungie personnel usually involved in interacting with the community have so far gone unanswered, although that in itself is not likely indicative of anything given the volume of mail they probably receive.
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