Nico "Grasshopper" Audy-Rowland, the music and audio guy for Red vs Blue, the Strangerhood, and some Project Magma maps, has done a strenuously detailed interview with Marty "The Elder" O'Donnell, music and audio guy on Myth, Halo and Halo 2. Marty seems to be running neck and neck with Frankie for the award for most forthcoming and loquacious Bungie employee. HBO is hosting it the interview.

We missed it, but earlier this month Doobie at MariusNet made an announcement of an app called MythChat, created by Capital and Nae'blis. It runs on top of a Java Virtual Machine and allows users to connect to MariusNet's game servers and chat with players without loading the Myth game program itself.

PMABlades has posted up at PlayMyth what FlyingFlip Studios been up to lately (besides playing Fable):

Horus wrote in the MBO forum late last week that The Fallen's Vengeance fan-made expansion for the Myth 2 engine, now has a completed story and a working demo, with 3-4 levels to be worked on, and "maybe" ready for release early in 2005. After all these years, people are still making things and playing with Myth, a great tribute to the quality and flexibility of this game. Editor's Note: The TFV site is down right now for reconstruction.

Smeeisqualityfoo has put up a nice little guide on Myth: TFL and Myth II: Soulblighter in the Underground forum at Bungie.net. For those not familiar with these RTS games originally developed by Bungie and then sold to Take Two Interactive at the time of the Microsoft buyout, it's a nice primer on all things Myth, plus a quick guide on where to get a copy and how to get it going.

Believe it or not, there's Myth news today. Over at MythForums there are two news items; one about an update to the Myth 2 FAQ, adding information about the community game servers that replaced Bungie.net; the other is the launch of Myth Gazetteer, a site that aims to be a meta-directory for Myth maps; they've got 500 so far. Thanks vinylrake.

Several stories around the web the last few days (XboxSolution, CNN have mentioned the resignation of Take Two's CEO, Jeffrey C. Lapin, and the subsequent revision of financial estimates for the second quarter and year-end results for 2004. Lapin had the CEO job for only one year and three months.

Gholsbane has broken a long silence on Myth.bungie.org and provided a lot of good news for players of Bungie's RTS series, Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth 2: Soulblighter.

Last Friday, Project Magma reopened with a new design. It has new forums and new bug reports and wish lists for each of their projects. Doobie also writes that further updates to all three Myth games are in the works.

With the help of HBO's Louis Wu, we found a few more items to add to our Sheet Music page-- a guitar tab for the solo in Silent Cartographer done by Vicious Circle, XvShadow's guitar tab of the main Halo theme, Marty O'Donnell's own sheet music for Siege of Madrigal from Myth and an

Doobie writes that Dustin "Dc80s" Charest and the PS clan are going to hold a Myth: The Fallen Lords tournament next month. Read his post or the tournament page for the complete details on maps and game types.

Two pieces of news in the world of what used to be Bungie's series of RTS games, Myth. The third game in the series, developed by Mumbo Jumbo after the rights to the franchise were sold to Take Two Interactive, has been updated to version 1.2b2 according to VersionTracker.