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:
PlayMyth.net is releasing an update for Myth 3 and Myth 2. Go a head and download your copy! I was just testing out Myth 2 for OSX and it runs great, this is really great news for the Myth community! PlayMyth.net has a list of mirrors for Myth 3, and currently you can only download the copy of Myth 2 at their hotline server located at hotline.mythdev.com. Later there will be a mirror for Myth 2.
The updates expires on March 16th!
Major Myth 2 news at PlayMyth.net, Myth II will be updated to 1.3.2 on March 15th. Stop reading this and go read for yourself!
Reported by Macgammer.com...
Progress update for the Mac and PC version of Halo, the most intresting information is:
additional multiplayer maps and possible new weapons and vehicles because of expected greater online play by computer users
Could this be true? Does Bungie know about this? Get all the latest info at Macgamer.com.
According to Cookieman and Yeroen at Bungie.net, a six level preview version of a new Myth solo plugin entitled The Seventh Godblighter Preview Pack should be made available today, authored by Teepens.
This expansion promises a multi-storyline plot featuring humans, dwarves, elves and goblins, with an option to play as each.
PlayMyth.net is reporting an update on their Myth 3 project! They are reporting that Mac and PC updates should be available to download soonЩ. If you are still interested in Myth, go and check out their update. It's nice to see that Myth 3 is still alive!
With the lull in Bungie-related news that inevitably occurs in the void between releases, the natives at HBO have been getting a bit restless in their search for new information.
This search is referred to lovingly as bugging Matt .
Oni Breaker is an interesting project created by Pierre Terdiman. He wants to take the best parts of Oni and Max Payne and combine them into a single game. There actual screen shots!. Check out what he has done so far. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to check out what's new; there is also a new demo.
The Cyberathlete Professional Leauge is hosting an event called CPLЃ PentiumЃ 4 Processor Winter 2002, and will take place Wednesday, December 18 and ending Sunday, December 22, 2002. This is useless information until you read the schedule, on December 21 (Saturday) at 2:00pm Gearbox will have a workshop and will feature Halo for PC! Sounds like an intresting event.
Infininight at Myth Village has posted that Project Magma has released the units they ported from Soulblighter to Myth: TFL as .gor files so that other mapmakers can use them.