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:

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.

Westlake update 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.