Rampancy

SPOnG has a story that says Konami is confirming that the next installment of the Silent Hill series of games will not be released for the current generation of consoles-- meaning it will instead be released on machines such as the PlayStation 3 or the Xbox 2. Silent Hill 4: The Room is the latest in the series so far, due out this September.

According to GameSpot, a company called Nyko Technologies is shipping the SpeakerCom, an alternative to the XBL headset. It's a microphone and speaker that mount on the Xbox controller, allowing the use of voice communication features without a headset.

CENOBITE posted in the HBO forum that the new edition of Game Informer magazine is advertising that they've got some "exclusive" new Halo 2 multiplayer screenshots and content. I've seen some really low-quality digicam pics of some pages, and they look legitimate, although some of the information CENOBITE cites as being in the magazine sounds a bit specious. As per usual practice, though, we're not going to post them ourselves or link to them until after the edition is off the newsstands.

Several stories around the web the last few days (XboxSolution, CNN have mentioned the resignation of Take Two's CEO, Jeffrey C. Lapin, and the subsequent revision of financial estimates for the second quarter and year-end results for 2004. Lapin had the CEO job for only one year and three months.

What does this have to do with Bungie? Well, for a while Take Two owned almost twenty percent of Bungie; when Microsoft bought the company, Take Two got the rights to the Myth and Oni franchises, as well as two licenses for the Halo engine in return for its shares.

Since being sold by Bungie, the Myth franchise saw the release and then abandonment of Myth 3 by Mumbo Jumbo, which was disbanded shortly after the game's disappointing release. The Oni franchise has remained dormant, and there's been no sight of any Halo engine games from Take Two.