Rampancy

XboxSolution is reporting the same story as everyone else-- that a French language version of Halo 2 has hit the Internet. However, they've chosen to headline the story Halo 2 Source Code Leaked on the Web, which, as far as we know, is NOT true; Shishka's FAQ denies that anyone has broken into Bungie, and that the leaked copy is the binary version of the shipping game, most likely lifted from a manufacturing plant.

Halo2.com relaunched recently, with a hidden message (one that helped decode a similar message on the newly-released desktop teaser) that's already been deciphered. In case you don't know the answer, we won't spoil it, as there's already been too many spoilers flying around since yesterday.

There are probably be lots of people out there that might, just might, be using a program or two without completely legally purchased serial codes (hey, it could happen). But when software piracy touches those products and people dearest to our hearts, the reaction is different.

Skeifer and the Captain venture into the Library to see how "real" a giant multilevel archive full of Flood can be in Part 7 of The Junkyard's series on realism in Halo. I have to admit, this article must have been a real challenge, as the Library is probably the most unnatural and arbitrarily designed environment in the game, so it's difficult to imagine it as a real scenario. The Captain does ask the question I've always wondered about, though: