We've put up a second copy of the Halo E3 2006 Announcement Trailer; this one weighs in at a much lighter 25 megabytes and is encoded in DivX 5, suitable for Macs or PCs, for those who don't like QuickTime or whose computers (like mine) have a bit of trouble keeping up with the high-resolution H.264 version.

Just a note in passing: with the spike in interest in Halo caused by rumors of the impending announcement of Halo 3 at E3 this year, Rampancy.net passed the 10,000 registered user mark; runLIKEhell1393 became user #10000.

We've opened up a few new pages as a result of Bungie's Halo 3 admission at E3 this week:

As everyone else living in a normal timezone already knows, Bungie announced that Halo 3 is in development for the Xbox 360 and is expected to be released in 2007. The announcement says in no uncertain terms that this is the final game in the Halo series, confirming what others have suspected: that about nine years is enough to make even the most interesting scenario boring to developers that aren't SquareSoft.

Halo 3 might be a myth, but Myth III isn't.

Just last year Flip of Flying Flip Studios announced the release of a new pack of Myth III maps by clem-- and unfortunately we missed it. If you've got the game and want something new to try out, head on over and look. Their downloads page also has other things-- updaters for Myth III and so forth.

Major Nelson confirms that in the US, the weekend of March 31 - April 2 will be the first that Xbox Live Silver members will get access to Xbox Live Gold features for free, including network multiplayer.