With the lull in Bungie-related news that inevitably occurs in the void between releases, the natives at HBO have been getting a bit restless in their search for new information.
This search is referred to lovingly as bugging Matt .
Oni Breaker is an interesting project created by Pierre Terdiman. He wants to take the best parts of Oni and Max Payne and combine them into a single game. There actual screen shots!. Check out what he has done so far. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to check out what's new; there is also a new demo.
The Cyberathlete Professional Leauge is hosting an event called CPLЃ PentiumЃ 4 Processor Winter 2002, and will take place Wednesday, December 18 and ending Sunday, December 22, 2002. This is useless information until you read the schedule, on December 21 (Saturday) at 2:00pm Gearbox will have a workshop and will feature Halo for PC! Sounds like an intresting event.
In the interests of posterity, we've added news of Phoenix's cancellation to our Phoenix FAQ.
The Marathon Open Source page has put up another update, this time on the progress of Carbonization and the addition of networking:
In what I hope is our last story ever on this topic, we're finally regained control of our domain name.
The site is once again accessible at our rightful name, http://rampancy.net. Please update your bookmarks. Most of the links on the site have also been changed so they go to this address, so you may need to login again.
Matt Soell posted on Bungie.net last week that the venerable Bungie shooter Marathon has been ported to the Sega Dreamcast in the form of Aleph One for Dreamcast.
Peter Tamte of Destineer Studios commented in an interview with IMG that the goal for Halo on the Mac platform is simultaneous release, and that the project so far is on schedule.