A pair of new rampancy.net channels at io.bungie.net, which replace the old Core channels (may they rest in peace). Both pipe the headlines and forum threads to that handiest of sites, and should prove more than adequate substitutes. Our thanks to the Bungie guys for helping us get these channels up and running in time for E3, which means we can spam them both relentlessly over the course of the next few days...

I've got to say that the last few days have probably been the greatest fun I've ever had on the Internet, and especially as a webmaster. :::Noc scratches his implants:::

It's been a hectic few days, but rampancy.net is finally online and taking visitors. Sorry about that second countdown, but we needed time to transfer all of the Core's forum and news content over, and we couldn't do so while the forum was so active.

The frenzy of activity surrounding the end of the Core caught Noct and I completely off guard... but what a delight, competing with the ingenuity of the community, people who casually decoded our puzzles and veil of uncertainty. Clearly we were no match, but we're glad some of you had a good time.

What an incredible experience. There are literally too many people to thank... the people who spent hours speculating on the forum, everyone who eagerly accepted the puzzles, and even the people who were reloading the forum index so fast in the last few minutes that it broke the threads display on the front page.

Incredible.

All the news up to and including May 5 should be ported over to the new system, and future posts will be made here. This post marks the changeover, and the beginning of a few days of testing for the site before it goes live. Stay tuned.

Fun fun silly willy. Plenty of work to do still, though, and until we've caught up with the existing Oni, Myth, and Marathon news, things are going to be pretty thin in those sections too.

As a few keen readers have pointed out, we're having some trouble with a few of the scripts around here. Probably just a minor server thing, and we're looking into the matter. I swear, you change one permission setting and some scripts will act like they're possessed. Apologies for the inconvenience.

After an unusually long run, which could only be attributed to the favorable positions of the moon and planets, the last poll has wrapped up, with just over 450 voters generally satisfied with the amount of information Bungie provides, with most wanting even more.

While I'm sure 99% of you won't care about this in the least, I've finally secured a new, permanent email addy, which just happened to have a new ISP attached to it. Though my old addy should function for a while, all future correspondance should be directed to: