The Myth 2 expansion, The Great War has been released (in a manner of speaking) in the beta 7 form, which is expected to be the closest to a final release the project will get. Of the 7 levels, 5 are complete-- two have some minor issues, but are included anyway. TGW is available from MythMaps.

David Candyman Candland of Bungie has posted to Bungie.net that Team Unpfhorgiven has released a demo of their much anticipated Marathon TC for Unreal Tournament, Marathon: Resurrection. From the release notes of M:R 1.2:

Where's Alec Guinness when you need him to make a wry remark about the who is more foolish?

Marius Net will be celebrating one year of operation this Friday. Bungie.net suggests (while Clan Plaid confirms) that there will be prizes given away. If you hope to catch a prize, then be on Marius Net at 12:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 6:00 PM, 9:00 PM, and/or midnight for your chance.

Matt eager to ditch this particular albatross Soell at Bungie put in more than a couple of cents' worth into yet another HBO forum thread about whether or not Halo really is being ported, if so when and by whom, and whether the definitive source of such information should be Bungie (doing the work) or Microsoft (footing the bill).

Gamespot is running a poll on the most-missed E3 no-show, and Halo is an option-- in two flavors, even. Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up.

Infininight at Myth Village has posted that Mythforums and marius net will be supporting orders; the .orderlist command will list online users in the same order as you.

There's more information at marius net.

Zandervix at MBO has posted about two new tournaments: Tournament Of Kings 2x2 and Tournament of Kings Man Team FFA. More information is at http://www.mythportal.com/~tok.

Zandervix posted at MBO that the PlayMyth ranked server will have a full reset on June 1.

Yeoren has posted at bungie.net that after the Bungie Store sold out of Mac Action Sacks, they found another stack of Sack CDs without sacks, which are now being sold for $10.

From Anima at MythVillage comes word that Marine Recon will be hosting a 2002 Spring Offensive tournament on Sunday, June 2nd from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. EST. Team registrations will be taken until 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, May 30.

The game, of course, is WWII:Recon.

Matt Soell dropped into the HBO forum to address the recent not on the board comment from Chris DiCesar at Microsoft. In short, DiCesar was just trying to be as conservative as possible, and as a result, understated what's being done on Halo.

Matt reiterates:

Chris Barylick at Macgamer managed to nab an interview with Bungie's Matt Soell at E3, and covered a rather wide range of topics. Thanks again to Louis Wu at HBO.

On Bungie doing another Myth or Oni game:

Jason Loonyboi Bergman from Shacknews recently interviewed Chris DiCesar, Microsoft Games' group PR manager, about the status of the PC/Mac ports of Halo. In terms of when it will happen, DiCesar said it's still up in the air . He also indicates that no actual work has even begun on the port:

Just kind of a non-update update, since news is slow.

Matt popped onto the HBO forum recently to respond to continuing questions about the PC and Macintosh versions of Halo and said: