Brad Cook of Apple has previewed Myth III on Apple's gaming website. They were able to snag a bunch of quotes from Mumbo Jumbo developers, including Scott Campbell and Mike Donges.

Kudos to Total Codex of the Ministry of Security for spotting a post by Nate Birkholz in the MWA forum that further details the release of the Mac version of Myth III. Birkholz writes:

Nate Birkholz of MacSoft has posted a couple of status updates in the Myth Village forum. The first is in response to Webscreamer's post, but for some reason Webscreamer has deleted his own post. Fortunately Birkholz's is still available.

Posted on November 30, the first update reads:

Nate Birkholz has posted the Mac Myth III system requirements in the Myth Village forum. They read:

Spanish Mac enthusiast site Macuarium has done a short interview with Peter Tamte, ex-Apple, ex-Bungie, ex-Macsoft and currently of Destineer, the company destined to bring Microsoft's games to the Mac (perhaps Halo, perhaps not).

The first thing he tells us is that the Mac is alive and well at Bungie:

Blambi of Myth Village has posted a link to Outpost for the Mac version of Myth III for the price of $29.95. That's probably the best deal we will see for the game until its popularity dies down a bit.

SpondMax of The Myrgard Times pointed out that Nate Birkholz of MacSoft has posted an item in a thread about Mac Myth in theMythVillage forum, just to correct a common misconception:

Bill Heineman has updated his .plan today. Apparently there is only one more networking issue for OS X that needs to be dealt with before the game is ready to go.

Monte asked if Myth III for the Mac will have a customized cursor like the PC version in the Myth Village forum. Nate Birkholz replied, Myth III just uses the plain ol' Mac cursor.

The Mumbo Jumbo website has updated with some important Myth III information. The first bit of news offers a lot of hope to those of us worried about Myth III's future:

Kudos to MWA for answering my request to make the Pepper Heights .tag file available so that Mac users can download the map, which was previously only available in .exe (Windows executable) format. Now that it's .zip compressed, the download is only 3 MB.

You can download Pepper Heights at MWA's map page or just click here.

Nate Birkholz posted a Myth III status update for the Mac in the Myth Village forum. It says:

Yes Myth III is being worked on; Bill Heineman has been working on it for a couple weeks now, along with Chris Jacobson.

The A-level bug list remains the same, but progress has been made.

Changes have been rolled in from the forthcoming PC patch.

Infininight has posted at MythVillage that Bill Heineman, formerly of Mumbo Jumbo Games, has returned to Contraband Entertainment along with Chris Jacobson.

Nate Birkholz has posted a link in the IMG forum that shows two images of the Myth III in-game GameSpy browser working on the Mac. (Thanks Myth Village)

Nate Birkholz from Macsoft updated the progress report on the Mac version of Myth III over at IMG's message board. Basically, it's likely the PC version .1 fixes will be in, but at this point it depends on who finishes first: