Rampancy

Yet another Halo fansite has been hard hit by the voracious appetite that Halo fans have for movies. Halo GT has taken down the old movies they had in order to conserve bandwidth, and are inviting those who can help with hosting to contact them.

FlyingV over at Battleground: Halo has interviewed enterprising Halo modmaker MonoxideC, responsible for the multiplayer Library mod, among others. One of the tidbits he lets drop is the fact that his next mod, a multiplayer version of Assault on the Control Room, is almost done, and some screenshots may be forthcoming soon, as well as a tutorial on converting single player maps to multiplayer.

[image:7135 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Those waiting for Frankie to dodge left or right while carrying his Weekly Update to deposit on some grateful fan site were bound do be disappointed when he dove straight down, tunneling through the earth to encsconce it Underground, on Bungie's own forum.

[image:7136 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]And this week, there really is a new screenshot.

GarageGames, which licenses the Torque engine that was used to make games such as Tribes2, has lifted a restriction from their Independent Developer license, and changed the Commercial Developers license as well.

Individual developers who wanted to use the Torque engine could always pay $100 to license it, if they agreed to publish through GarageGames. Now they can publish anywhere they like, as long as their annual revenue is less than $250,000 and the engine is only used for games.

The Commercial license used to be a flat $10,000 per title; now it's just $495 per programmer seat for any application.

So if you're feeling like you want to make a 3d game all your own-- for Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows, and can't wait for the Halo Editing Kit, then maybe Torque will be right for you. Thanks MacCentral.