MBO has news on the Myth Birthday Party planned at Mariusnet. November 8, 2002 marks the fifth anniversary of the release of the Myth Demo. So MariusNet will be having a party, complete with a new Co-Op challenge. And for those without Myth:TFL CDs, MariusNet will support the Myth Demo. Thanks Zandervix.

Gholsbane at MBO has posted news that an application called MythBrowser written by Kel is now available. It takes statistics data from both MariusNet and PlayMyth servers. Right now it is PC-only but a Mac version is in the works.

The Marathon Open Source page has put up another update, this time on the progress of Carbonization and the addition of networking:

MacWorld UK has an interview with Peter Tamte from Destineer Studios up that's dated October 23, but nearly all the information in it is old.

They quote Tamte from as saying Westlake will start in September to work on porting Halo to the Mac. And they also mention Kevin Browne of the Mac Business Unit of Microsoft complaining about OS X sales. (Browne left the MacBU recently.)

Not long after I posted the other item about Marathon not being dead, this headline appears on Gamespot:

New casualty of marathon gaming

No Bungie products were involved, but it seems a man in Taiwan has died after a 32-hour gaming session. It was the second such occurrence, as another man in South Korea died after apparently gaming for 86 hours straight.

Mitb at the Forerunners.org hotline server pointed out to us a news post by Mutha Flictka at Marathon.bungie.org with several updates: a renovation of the Marathon 2 terminal texts at the Marathon's Story page (still a joy after all these years), some more new 3d models for Aleph One at source.bungie.org, and even more updates at the

Doobie from udogs.net wrote in to Mariusnet to say that their site is temporarily available on the web at udogs.projectmagma.net, and they thank doughie.com for hosting their Grounds for Assault map in the absence of MythVillage's hosting until their own site comes back.

Halo 2 and other future Bungie titles to make it past the Xbox to the Mac and/or PC?

Could be.

Thanks to HBO for the linkage.

From MBO comes word that Renaissance has made available a new plugin for both Myth: TFL and SB, called Dol Baran. It's available at the Mill. Thanks Zandervix.

IMG has a mention of Mac's upcoming Halo port, in an interview twixt Tuncer Deniz and Westlake's Glenda Adams. Not much, but its does clarify a few things.

Link snarfed from HBO.

Conner at Marius.net put an announcement that a new version of Mazzarin's Demise has been announced by Project Magma. Changes include 8 player support, more enemies, more powerful Light units-- over 100 changes in all.

MacGamer has put up an article by Corey Tamas on Myth: The Fallen Lords. The gist of it is that he never really understood the appeal of the game until he took a second look at it recently, and now he's a real fan:

PlayMyth.net is ready to beta test its Myth III software. If you're interested, makes sure you meet the requirements:

In a rare news post, Oni Central has added new pieces of fan art and fan fiction. If you're still looking for an Oni fix, this is your lucky day.

Peter Tamte of Destineer Studios commented in an interview with IMG that the goal for Halo on the Mac platform is simultaneous release, and that the project so far is on schedule.

Crux at HBO pointed out the article at IMG.