Rampancy

Bah, after two months of checking Apple's Quicktime Showcase on a daily basis, Hamish and Marathon's Story still scooped me on this one! ;)

As widely expected, Apple has made Halo a featured item at their Quicktime Showcase site, virtually guaranteeing it thousands of additional viewers. Probably more. Time to pretty our sites up a bit, we may have visitors.

Also, kudos again to Xzzy, who has made the Halo trailer available on this server:

There were a few difficulties with the forum earlier today, partly due to a missing file. Sorry about any lost posts, though I think I got them all. Things seem to be working nicely now, though, and the archive will be operating sometime tomorrow. Depending on how the upload goes, of course.

As a part of settling back into the daily routine, I've set up a new poll (having lost the last one). A controversial topic this time: which would you prefer for Halo, a first or third person perspective?

There is a very vocal group of players for both sides, but I wonder what the usually silent majority thinks about this. And just in case you're impartial, there's an Undecided option too, in case you'd rather wait and see how Bungie handles the issue.

After a nerve wracking three days of downtime, the Core is back up and running, largely thanks to the efforts of our readers. Special thanks to Xzzy, who went above and beyond the call of duty to arrange this hosting and help get the site settled in its new crib.

I'm currently uploading and porting over sections of the site, but most of it is here now. Broken links will abound, but a few days of cleaning will probably get all of those. Ignore them for now, and report them if you're still seeing them a few days from now.