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Petition for PC/Mac Halo online
Michael Maddux writes to let us know that a petition to keep up development of Halo for Mac/PC is online, and currently has almost 200 signatures. Stop by and let Bungie know how you feel! Pax. (Crux Fidelis 18:22:28 UTC) (permalink)
Info roundup on the acquisition
Neko-chan points out the MacCentral interview with Alex Seropian, which is hard to read without serious misgivings about future Mac development of Halo. To recap, here's a list of interviews, chats, and official releases over the past few days.
Bungie employee interviews:
- Daily Radar's 2nd interview with Jason Jones
- PG IGN interview with Ed Fries (Microsoft) and Alex Seropian
- GameSpot's interview with Alex Seropian
- Gamespy interview with Alex Seropian and Ed Fries
- Blue's News interview with Doug Zartman
- Daily Radar's 1st interview with Jason Jones
- MacCentral's interview with Alex Seropian
- MacCentral's interview with Take 2
- Inside Mac Games' interview with Alex Seropian
- Q&As with Doug Zartman at Inside Mac Games
Chats with the fans:
Press releases/info for fans:
(Louis Wu 16:10:00 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie's new digs
A secret CIA source who asked not to be identified sent along this aerial reconnaissance photo of the Microsoft complex in Redmond. Seems the Bungie offices have already been added. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 15:34:01 UTC) (permalink)
Final Halo SETI team stats posted
The end is here. The Halo SETI Marines lost another big member today (DarthFlounder, with 1210 units), increasing the hemorrhage total to over 2000 units in 2 days. We've been processing stats for this team since late October of last year, and we've watched it grow from a small group of Halo fanatics to one of the top 50 club teams and one of the top 100 overall teams. That's nothing to sneeze at... but we aren't willing to chronicle the descent as people drop out. Therefore, today's 24 hour stats are the last we'll put up. The team is far from dead, and could conceivably continue to grow (if, for example, the Bungie team decided to merge with it), but we're gonna go back to focusing on Halo news. Thanks to all for the last 8 months! (Louis Wu 14:49:48 UTC) (permalink)
MacGamer's Ledge post Microsoft experiences
MacGamer's Ledge have posted a feature called "Former Access Software Employee speaks out on Microsoft relationship"in which a former Access Software employee shares his own experiences after his employer, also a game developer, was purchased by Microsoft. Note: Bungie maintain that they have a different relationship with Microsoft and that Microsoft have learnt from previous disasters. (Ding 13:25:33 UTC) (permalink)
More Microsoft/Bungie humor from Penny Arcade
More Microsoft/Bungie humor from Penny Arcade. Click on the Latest Comic link to see the strip. Thanks to Forensic for the heads up in our forums (Ding 12:46:53 UTC) (permalink)
'Halo will be an X-Box exclusive for a few months'
PlanetXbox posted the following to their main page:
With the recent announcement of Microsoft buying Bungie we can all look forward to playing Halo on the Xbox! With Halo becoming an X-box title,will it make it to PC at all? Word from inside the company is that Halo will be an X-Box exclusive for a few months, before being released for the PC at a later date.
News to us. (Ding 11:06:52 UTC) (permalink)
IRC log in HTML format available
A far more easily read version of the IRC log from yesterday's chat is now available. This has had much of the extraneous info deleted (comings and goings, nick changes, etc), so if you're interested in that sort of thing, Halo Vault has put up a complete log, with all that data in it. (Louis Wu 04:20:38 UTC) (permalink)
transcript of bungie irc discussion posted
Max Hoberman (yeroen), Matt Soell (Proudfles), and ol_dirtae (name pending) showed up in irc channel #bungie this afternoon, and a couple of hours discussed the future of Bungie with the nearly 100 people who attended. Thanks to everyone who showed up... and for those who couldn't be there, we've put up a raw irc log of the event. Hopefully, we'll manage to format it more attractively in the near future. (Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi and James Hastings-Trew, who did a great job keeping the discussion on-target and under control.) (Louis Wu 01:50:07 UTC) (permalink)
Fan Fiction page updated
Something about the shock of the last few days has brought out the writer in several. The Fan Fiction page has been updated with not one, not two, but three new stories... go check 'em out! (Thanks to Vap, Myndreach, and Antares for the submissions.) (Louis Wu 01:43:21 UTC) (permalink)
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