Rampancy

I'm proud to announce that RHL, the Rampancy.Net hotline server, is online and open to the Bungie fan community. Just in time for E3! For those of you who don't know, Hotline is a server/client communication arrangement that acts much like IRC or the old-time BBS chats in some respects, but also has file support and some other nice features. The client software can be obtained for free at Big Red H.

Kudos to mad.max, who posted a small scan taken from the recent PCGamer UK Halo preview. While it's not terribly informative, it is a neat shot, and a great photo of Bungie's Doug Zartman to boot. I do wonder what weapon the marine is firing one handed in the background, though...

Just in time for E3, Bungie has moved their in-testing io.bungie.net into the spotlight at www.bungie.net. The new site, which features channels supplied by sites in the community, is easily customized to individual tastes, and depending on the channels you choose, packed to the gills with useful content. It's very easy to create a channel set that lets you keep tabs on the headlines all over the place, or just the sites that interest you in particular.

Have we got a treat for you! Jaime Case Griesemer, Senior Designer for Bungie's Halo project, has consented to answer some questions about himself and about Halo. For those of you who don't know much about Jaime, he was a member and well-respected webmaster in the Bungie fan community for some time before going to work for Bungie. Here's a small excerpt from the interview: