Tooling around the web like a madman, this time Bungie's Matt Soell has landed on the Oni Central forum, posting a fleshy update on the status of the eagerly awaited full-contact action title.

The Oni beta has now had 18 iterations, Soell reports, and he's also seen some cutscenes with Marty O'Donnell's sound work added and thinks it's really cool.

In addition:

A while back we had these plans to do some cool marketing tie-ins for Oni, the sort of things we donТt normally do. There was one very cool project in the works, and a few days ago a couple of us wondered Oh yeah, whatever happened to that Oni [censored] that [censored] was doing back before we got bought out? Is that still gonna happen? Well, it is. :-) I for one am really looking forward to it, and I expect many of you will buy more than one. On a related note, it should be a relief to some of you that Take 2 is all over this sort of thing and definitely has a marketing plan for Oni.

Soell also comments on the coolness of something called the Screaming Cannon and passes on Chris Butcher's announcement that no two players have yet come up with the same solution for Oni's really tough and immensely fun final level.