MacObserver has posted an audio interview taken during E3 with Bungie's Matt Soell. The topics of discussion cover Oni, HALO, Microsoft, and the XBox. It's 2.1 MB and is 14:57 in length; check it out.

Setter-upper of the fifth annual Bungie Fanfest, Freewill has put together a report of what happened during that glorious night. A jolly time would be had by Bungie employees, fans, and dorks alike, and the report has the pictures to prove it. Don't miss this one, as it is the best first-hand report of the FanFest out there.

Lanparty.com, which normally focuses on PC games (for obvious reasons) apparently stumbled across FanFestV completely by mistake because they were staying at the same hotel while visiting E3. Subsequently they felt obligated to comment on it.

And while they can be forgiven for not knowing about the FanFest-- maybe-- they can't be for referring to Halo's developers as Bungee :

Louis Wu at Bungie.org has given us the heads-up that Freewill has posted his FanFestV reminiscences at Bungie Sightings. Among the highlights:

Bungie Community Guy Matt Soell has showed up on the radar again, posting in our forum to let us know that THERE WILL BE MAC AND PC VERSIONS OF HALO, no matter how many posts you might see from malicious dolts who confirmed

Harry from Oni Central let us in on the updated FanFest coverage at Bungie Sightings. There are pics up now from the event itself, including 4-player split-screen Halo on a huge screen, as well as the ones from event setup that were posted earlier.

Head over to the Bungie FanFest V site frequently over the next few days, as it's being updated with pictures of the event. The report is that attendees will be able to play HALO before anyone else at E3, which sounds like $7 well-spent! The pictures that are available show the setup process and a real HALO van that we'd all love to have.

I've been out at my parents' place for the last little bit, which is why you haven't seen much of me. It's been helpful to readjust to more of a day schedule, because we're going to be at E3!

We're hoping to get an interview that we've been talking about with the Bungie crew for a bit. If you have any suggestions for questions you'd like asked, feel free to submit them via questions@rampancy.net.