But of course. Marathon's Story reports that Bungie is has been praised in a Macworld Top 10 Mac Gaming Thingies of the Millennium article for their track record of raising the bar every time they enter a genre. Also noted is a MacGamesNews review of the Action Sack... an unusually active Saturday, isn't it?
While Butcher has advised me that this is old news, I'm posting it in blatant defiance of his better judgement. Inside Mac Games has posted an item on Microsoft's DirectPlay, and Apple's answer to it:
A couple of years ago, Bungie developed a cross-platform game networking API called Uber ...[whack]
Completely off topic, but noteworthy nonetheless. Inside Mac Games is reporting that Half-Life for MacOS has been cancelled, abruptly and unexpectedly. The reasons center around cost concerns, which is understandable, but this is still a disappointment for Mac gamers, Half-Life being the excellent game that it is.
Still, it isn't like we have nothing to look forward to. Overshadowed by the bombshell report is an interesting note about Oni, which is more appealing with every outing. Win some, lose some, I guess...
Heh, not often that we see the misinformation going in this direction. Kudos to Supercobra, who points out a slight error in a recent Australian Halo preview:
Not quite Halo, but hey, we're dying here. Kudos to Legend, who pointed out and made a forum post on the rumors (or are they more than that?) about nVidia creating drivers for Macs, bringing some of their PCI cards and their excellent preformance over to our acceleration starved platform. Now, we just need AGP card drivers...
All is not lost, however. Anyone guilty of tinkering with Fear is certain to have noticed the tag called "internal formations", the only tag in the Formations group.
Kudos to Locklear, who pointed out an interview of Bungie's Peter Tamte at Mac Gamer's Ledge. Not much in the way of Halo here, but worth reading for the background information.
Seven months after releasing Myth 2, at Macworld in New York, Bungie shows the original Halo announcement trailer, which is running in real-time using OpenGL on a Macintosh computer. There had been rumors earlier in the year about a game people thought was code-named "Blam".
Steve Jobs originally stated Halo would be released "early next year" but there was no confirmation of this from Bungie's side.
MACWORLD EXPO, NEW YORK CITY--July 21, 1999--Today Bungie Software announces Halo, a game that shatters the confines of typical game environments. Halo is a third-person perspective, sci-fi action epic that takes place indoors, outdoors, in the sky and beneath the surface of a world of astonishing realism and visual impact. Halo was unveiled this morning in Steve Jobs' keynote address to the Macworld Expo.
Direct from the keynote webcast comes the long awaited announcement, and the beginning of something new (or the continuation of something great).
In a demonstration that (despite the two interruptions, 2 fps, and the fact that I'd managed to see it before) floored me, Bungie's Jason Jones unveiled Halo, their new in development game. Halo, nee Blam.
Completely non-Blam related, Biodegrader is a Deathmatch fixer plugin currently under development and testing by Badlands, as well as a brave few others. Due to the lack of a major HL distribution center, I've posted a copy of it here, so anyone willing to try it out and file bug reports is welcome to grab it and give it a whirl.
