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Kudos (sick of that word yet?) to Merkinja7a for putting together and posting a transcript of Thursday's story broadcast on the forum. I'm still reading it as a post this, but it's all there... straight from Bungie's mouth. Should be an excellent source of information for an FAQ update, so stay tuned for one of those in the not so distant future.

• Forum: Halo Backstory Transcript

CyberBob pointed out a Macworld article from The Mac Observer that details a few of Bungie's plans for the future. First, and most obviously interesting is Bungie's plan to dominate E3 with Halo, which is reportedly undergoing multiplayer development and is slated for a second half of 2000 release.

On the Oni front, single player is the development topic du jour, and that title is due out in out in the first half, perhaps around E3. Of course, Bungie never casts release dates in stone. At least, not publicly.

Of particular interest, though, is this little excerpt:

The last tidbit we were fed is that the team formerly known as the Myth 2 development team is hard at work on a new title. No details were given, but Mr. Zartman said the game would be unlike anything else on the market.

One wonders what they have cooking, and if the technology being developed in Halo and Oni will play a role in it. TMO goes on to offer their spin on the whole situation, including some thought provoking comments on Halo... certainly worth taking a look.

Kudos to CyberBob, who sends word of a new Halo review in the German magazine GAMESTAR . While he notes no new screenshots, there are one or two interesting points:

Now one interesting thing is that they had an interview with either Dough Zartman or Peter Tamte. This interview consisted of only three questions, but they were not quite as interesting as the interviewee. While GAMESTAR claims that the interview was with Zartman, right next to it is a picture of Tamte... So much for credibility of that mag. :)

Perhaps Doug or Peter would like to step forward and clarify this little mystery for us. Despite the identity crisis, there was some interesting info to be had from the interview, as CyberBob describes:

The noteworthy questions were that Zartman/Tamte said that multi-player is still in dev and on the Question (freely translated) Why do you use such realistic physics, Quake does not and is still nice to play. Zartman/Tamte responded that they are well aware of the others and want to try something different. Because the Quake players are not used to this, it certainly does not mean that it is not fun.

Amen to that. Keep an eye out for a scanned version of this article, which is certain to appear somewhere soon.

Peapon was the first to post in our forum that the bTV Archive page now has yesterday's broadcast available. While you wait for the official copy of today's broadcast to be posted up, you can download a captured, streamed copy. Thanks again to JosephAW for making this available.

• Forum: New Btv Halo Footage