VoodooExtreme has reviewed Oni, giving it a 74% overall. Their final say:

The folks at GameSpot have put a HALO preview together that details its history, gameplay, and other facts that have been floating around for some time. They call HALO the most anticipated game for the XBox and go on to say that it seems leagues beyond its competition, and its graphical polish, even at this early point, is very enviable. In regards to multiplayer, they had this to say:

Bungie.org reports that the where&when of the fifth Bungie Fanfest have been established:

Wednesday May 16, 7:00 PM
Carousel Ballroom
DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel
1707 Fourth Street, Santa Monica, CA
Admission $7.00

Additional information should be available on the Bungie Sightings page within the next few days.

Well, I wasn't originally going to be the one to tell you about all of this, seeing as how it isn't my news; it's Rex's. But he has been procrastinating the sharing of this information for some time now... and soon it'll be old news if one of us doesn't say something about it. We'd especially hate for HBO to scoop us on it!

Freewill came to our forum on little cat feet, informing all that the latest issue of Next Generation magazine has a very read-worthy Halo article. Scans of the feature are available in myriad resolutions and file sizes from Free's Bungie Sightings page.

Well, we were all wondering what the Oni team was working on these days...and it's probably not this. Nonetheless, this looks to be one of the most innovative, complex, and just plain fun--but why listen to me babble on when you can hear about it straight from Bungie? Check out the game description, screenshots and movies at the official site for Pimps At Sea!

Perhaps you might consider this a non-news item, and it is, because Bungie isn't a part of it. That's because Bungie hasn't been included in PC Gamer UK's list of the 24 Godfathers of Gaming. Disagree? Well, first read the article, and then drop your two pence in their forum, as invited.

Joe Staten of Bungie's Sin-O-MatiXXX team stopped in at the forum yesterday to express some thoughts about the commonalities between developers, and recent discussion in our forum relating to the new Unreal 2 movie. It's worth reading.

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