Rampancy

Andrew Meggs stopped by our Futuremyth forum to reassure fans that Myth III's graphics will scale sufficiently to be playable on low-end machines and stunning on high-end ones.. An excerpt:

At one extreme, you've got the guy on a K6-300 with a Rage Pro. He gets 100-poly characters and single-pass single-texturing. At the other extreme, we can throw 50000+ polygons at you with as many as eight multitextured rendering passes applied to them and make your poor, pathetic GeForce 3 whimper and beg. :)

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Blam Gaming has returned with a new look, so head over and bookmark it.

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.

Update: And here it all is, at bs.bungie.org/fanfestv/. The ever-industrious Freewill is meanwhile plugging along at organising Fanfest VI, hopefully occurring at the next MWNY. A preliminary signup form for that Fest will be up at BS shortly.

Joe Staten and John Howard speak ...and life does go on...

Kudos (:::sob:::) go to Pfhor for posting about a new Xbox interview with Joe Staten and John Howard of Bungie at Xbox.IGN. Here's an early item that goes straight to the heart of the multiplayer issue:

IGN Xbox: First of all, we have to ask: What's going on with Halo's multi-player aspects? Originally, they were a big part of the plan, but with delays in Xbox broadband support, it sounds like this is going to have to take a backseat...what's the deal? Are ya going to include split-screen support at all, or are you now going to focus on single-player?

John Howard: Bungie has always been about kick-ass multiplayer, and Halo isn't any exception. As of now, we're definitely supporting 4-player split-screen with multiple game-types. We've been playing 2-on-2 CTF for a few weeks now, and I'm pleased to announce that HaloТs unique take on this well-worn game-type is very, very fun. And the addition of real-time taunt and abuse technology (aka reaching across the couch and smacking your opponent upside the melon ) is a nice change of pace from sitting alone at your computer.

So... no confirmation of LAN or Internet play just yet. The rest of the article is certain to be of interest to Halofen, and not necessarily just those of us who're planning on getting an Xbox.

• Forum: Xbox Interview with Howard and Staten