Rumor has been confirmed; the Myth III team was dissolved on November 2, 2001. Andrew Meggs wrote a long post in the Myth Village forum addressing some key issues about the team and Myth III:

CoreMagazine has posted an Xbox Launch Guide. The first page includes a short description of Halo. Page two has a rundown on accessories.

According to a Credit Suisse First Boston report yesterday, Microsoft has increased weekly Xbox production to 120,000 units per week, will ship 1.5 million units by the end of the year, and has met its originally announced launch date goal of between 600,000 and 800,000 units, despite recent speculation that the number would be cut in half.

The complete story is at ieMagazine.

The new Bungie.net site seems to have (at the moment, at least) three major areas.

The first is Seventh Column, described as the Official Bungie Fan Club and Underground Army. There are already five clubs listed in their directory, including one called Rampant (although the site reports they have been disbanded. Hmm).

Mordia has announced that the new Bungie.net site is now up. Yeoren, the Bungie Webmaster, has posted this note about the site:

Deimos&trade has reported at Subnova that Bill Gates personally gave an Xbox to each member of the studio audience of Rosie O'Donnell's show today, and then told them what his favorite game is...

Louis Wu has announced that HBO is back up:

Somehow, a whole bunch of things failed at once - including a thing that's supposed to tell me when it's not up. :(

It's back up now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Byron Hinson at ActiveXbox has reported that xbox.com has gotten a slight facelift. Nothing drastic, just a slight reorganization. There are now links to country-specific areas for the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Australia.

The most recent headline in the newsfeed from HBO reads They're all dead, Jim -- but we have no idea what that means, since HBO itself (at least the news portion) seems to be temporarily unavailable.

Not much to say other than Seventh Column has updated with:

Your browser is incompatible with this site. Please upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.

Yeah, right. Keep watching the site.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates opened the Comdex trade show yesterday, and got a chance to hawk some upcoming products. Furthermore, Gates looked a few more miles down the road ahead, according to this story at Xbox365:

Jay Kootar at Mumbo Jumbo Games has updated his .plan file, this time with a short and somber poem:

Robert Frost -

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Mumbo Jumbo, we hardly knew ye.

Remember that IGN subscription service, the one that gets the best articles as an exclusive first (assuming they aren't mirrored or posted somewhere else)?

Well, this month IGN will be giving away three consoles: a Sony PS2, a Nintendo GC, and an Xbox.

It's also possible to become an Insider for free through American Express Blue or Columbia House. Caveat emptor.

GameSpot is running a story saying that Microsoft has confirmed that their DVD player won't be capable of using progressive scan: