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Thursday, September 21, 2000 |  |
Matt says Listen the first time!
Tempest in a Teapot, Part Deux: Okay, this has nothing to do with the other rumor discussed recently... but it sure is silly. Recently, Matt Soell went on an answering spree at Rampancy.net... and tossed out this comment, in response to a question about what operating system the bungie.net servers might move to:
We've spoken to a couple people here who've made snarfy comments about us not using an MS server for b.net and we've ignored them. The most important thing is the integrity of the product. If MS were to produce a server OS that ran faster and crashed less than any of the unix variants out there in a series of independent tests, we'd use it.
Inside Mac Games picked up the comment this morning, and by lunchtime, it was on Slashdot. There are now over 200 comments about that article there... many assuming the worst. Matt clarified the original comment at R.net, for those who missed the point the first time... we ALL need to remember that the rumors that fly sometimes are just that... rumors. Bottom line: bungie.net runs on linux servers now, and will continue to do so, despite the fact that they're running at Microsoft. And Matt's getting tired of being misinterpreted. :) (Louis Wu 20:26:40 UTC) (permalink)
Wallpaper page
Thanks to Pr@iler, who sent along a desktop combining the Xbox logo and a modified Halo logo for our Wallpaper page. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 19:15:32 UTC) (permalink)
Links page updated
Thanks to Nights, who, although particlurly tactful about it, uncovered another French Halo site, Clan Highlanders. Through this site, we've added a number of French sites to our Links page: Halo Zone (site of the Halo Mystics), Addiction Halo (very nicely laid out), C.I.R.C.E. (all Flash, very little substance), and Fragger's Halo (who we'd left off previously because they used an awful lot of our content without asking - seems like a petty reason to ignore). Enjoy! (Louis Wu 15:25:44 UTC) (permalink)
MS Product Planner says MS titles TBA later
Thanks to Jon Kimmich, product planner for MS Games, who wrote to say that the reason Halo was left off the list of announced titles was because
This announcement was just to announce "3rd party" (ie. non-MS) publishers. All titles published by MS are "1st-party" titles, and we'll make some announcements about them at a later date.
Thanks, Jon... we're all breathing a sigh of relief here! ;) (Louis Wu 11:53:30 UTC) (permalink)
Halo, where are you?
Okay, so MS bought Bungie specifically so that Halo could be an Xbox title, right? And Halo's been shown, in one form or another, for months. (It was demonstrably playable at E3, for example.) So Microsoft had a huge global press conference yesterday, at which they showed a bunch of titles, including Unreal Tournament, Max Payne, Tomb Raider Next Gen, and more (the full list can be found in this Computer and Video Games article)... where was Halo? (Thanks to TomeOne for the link to the list.) (Louis Wu 08:57:45 UTC) (permalink)
The game's afoot!
Whoa. We got an email today...
"Through the instruments of the Muse, we shall sing the nameless their endsong."
"Silence will end their dirge."
"Beat we the rythym, their filth in a blaze will cease. They are flat, andno deeper deafness could their have, than to not see the song that has beenwritten for them."
-Speaks the Conduit
No, it didn't come from Nathan. Should we lock the doors? (Louis Wu 00:22:00 UTC) (permalink)
Wallpaper page updated
Thanks to Mojo, who dug out an old (but very nice) wallpaper for our Wallpaper page. Makes me pine for the old Marine! (Louis Wu 00:18:49 UTC) (permalink)
Xbox logo public, finally
Kudos to Picky, who found this page at Computer and Video Games... THIS is what the new Xbox logo looks like. Hmm... I still like the old one. ;) Heh... and check the official Xbox page - now 'The Word' section contains not only 'News' and 'Noise' but also 'Rumors'! (Louis Wu 00:02:36 UTC) (permalink)
Wednesday's news in brief:
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Xbox it is Matt says SP... not yet www.xbox.com is alive again www.xbox.com offline... forever? |
Tuesday's news in brief:
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Xbox = Raven? Codename Xbox = Realname... what? Halo SETI Team 7-day stats posted Honest3D looks at the Xbox Matt holds forth on this forum and that one Halo Multi Player Zone online |
