Rampancy

Mat "shunji" Noguchi's latest blog entry is all about contradicting John Carmack's statement at GDC that the problem of game audio will be "solved" within a couple of years. A bit technical, but definitely worth it.

This week's update skullduggery is in the forums at Battleground: Halo . Our local copy will be up on Monday or so.

Okay, time for another call to arms, Halo fans. Gordon Freeman and Half-Life by Valve Software are up over John 117 and Halo by Bungie Studios at this point in the first round of the Mushroom Kingdom championship bracket.

However, the rules of the game are now changed; you must login with a GameSpy ID in order to vote because of abuse detected in earlier matches.

[image:7244 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Well, after nearly five years in existence, most of the last 2 with only myself at the helm, Rampancy is finding it impossible to keep up with Louis Wu at HBO. As said in one HBO forum thread, inspired by Rams' column over at BGH points out, there's really no point in having any Halo fansites besides HBO anyway.

Besides, with all the real-life things going on, getting married, moving to a new apartment, taking a new job, learning Japanese, and running for political office, I just don't have the time to keep the site updated as it should be.

As of today, Rampancy will cease posting Halo news, and Narc's Retorts will become a semi-recurring forum thread.

Thanks for reading, it's been a fun few years!

UPDATE: The SEC, advised of HBO's arrogant attempt to abuse its monopoly position in the Halo fansite market, has ordered Louis Wu to divest himself of all the Halo websites acquired in the last 24 hours and return them to their rightful owners.

UPDATE: April Fool.