Beta #2 of Myth 2 1.4 Available
Gholsbane posted awhile back at MBO that there's a second beta version of the Myth 1.4 patch available at Project Magma.
Gholsbane posted awhile back at MBO that there's a second beta version of the Myth 1.4 patch available at Project Magma.
Jake 'Evergreen98' Billo has posted a three part article at The Junkyard, comparing elements of the forthcoming PC release of Halo by Gearbox to the original game on the Xbox.
In an interview over at Telefragged, Randy Pitchford from Gearbox gives us some hope that even if Halo for the PC doesn't have cooperative play at launch, it might gain it later on:
If the article at UGO is to be believed, there are a few more pieces of information available about PC Halo.
What's in:
What's out:
Words can not describe how cool the guys at PlayMyth.net are! They have updated Myth 2 AGAIN! Check out all the new information at their site.
Louis Wu at HBO has posted that IGN has 8 different videos of Halo on the PC available for free download. There also seem to be nine new screenshots, also available on the same page. Kudos to Bullseye for the original heads-up to HBO.
Sioflake has posted that there are now 21 teams registered for the Myth World Cup 2003. If one more team doesn't register to make up a field of 24, then teams 21, 22 and 23 will have to forego competition in order that a bracket for 20 teams can be made. The site has instructions on how to register a team, the tournament rules, as well as plenty of other information.
Earlier this year, unnoticed by us here at Rampancy (fancy that) the long-standing disputes over the ownership of the source code for the popular Hotline chat and pira.... err, file-sharing client and server seem to have come to an interesting conclusion, with the open-sourcing of the code for Hotline 1.x and the publication of the protocol specifications. The new project has been renamed OpenSprings. Apparently the code is available either under GPL or a commercial license.
Earlier this month there was a new release of the SDL version of the Marathon 1 scenario for Aleph One, commonly referred to as M1A1. You can see the news posted by Tophet at Orbital Arm, and the files themselves are available from the Aleph One downloads page, from Fileball, and Bungie.org.
The co-founder of the company that is currently porting Halo to the Mac, Westlake Interactive, one of the longest running and best-known Mac porting houses, is leaving the company to work at Aspyr Media, according to a story at InsideMacGames.
Ryan Mhaddy Matthews wrote in today to let us know that the Junkyard gaming site is holding a contest where people can guess the release date of Halo for the PC and the Mac, with prizes to be announced later.
Coexist wrote into the HBO forum to let everybody know that Gamespy has put up their preview of Halo for the PC online, including a rundown of the multiplayer capabilities. Apparently the game will ship with full Internet multiplayer as well as six new multiplayer maps, some of which will feature pilotable Banshees and Rocket Warthogs.
Marius has released a executable version of the Myth metaserver. For more information click here. It is Windows only
Thanks Marius!
From Michael Bagnall of Powertools Productions comes some good news about work on Myth 3: A 1.1 patch.
MythDevelopers are pleased to announce the release the long anticipated release of the 1.1 update for Myth III: The Wolf Age.
On May 15, 2003, Project Magma will be releasing the first major update to Myth II in several years when they present version 1.4. Among its features are: