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Marathon Infinity Released

Again less than 12 months passes between releases. Admittedly, Bungie only published Marathon Infinity. Double Aught created the scenario, which used the Marathon 2 engine largely unchanged.

Double Aught was headed by Greg Kirkpatrick and Randy Reddig. The group later planned to build a portal-based engine for a game to be called Duality, which was never completed or released.

Kirkpatrick had previously worked at Bungie and founded Double Aught.

event start:

10/15/1996

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Breaking In: From Spandex Palace to Bungie

From this week's Breaking In interviewing Rachel Swavely it seems like motion capture is going to play a big role in what Bungie is doing with Destiny.

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Bungie Looking For Destiny Beta Testers

There's nothing really new here, but Shacknews picked up on a mention of beta testers for Destiny in Bungie's blog and spun it into a story.

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Bungie's Destiny Is Now Playable

A tweet by Urk was confirmed in the Bungie mailbag as indicating that Bungie's next game, codenamed Destiny and apparently featuring musical collaboration between Bungie's Marty O'Donnell and the Beatles' Paul McCartney, has reached a playable form. No further comment was available.

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Somewhere In The Heavens, Music Is Being Transcribed

Reader dalekbob submitted two transcriptions of music from the original Marathon game: Chomber and New Pacific (Reprise), both written by Bungie founder Alexander Seropian.

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A Perspective On Marathon

There's a nice retrospective on the Marathon series today over at Reg Hardware. Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up.

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What I've Learned About Blogs

By looking at the amount of reads on blogs posted before Narcogen's most recent blogs versus the amount of reads on those authored after, one can see that if you wish one's blog to be read, one should release it following one of Narcogen's.(Wow, that was a long sentence.)

Hoping to get the word out about this: http://rampancy.net/blog/LEGO_Allied_Forces/17/09/2011/Request_Deliver_H...

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Another Anniversary

Not to go unnoticed in the glow of Bungie's 20th anniversary ViDoc, the MariusNet community-run Myth multiplayer server is celebrating its tenth anniversary on August 6th.

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Myth II Being Ported To Linux

From Marius.net comes the rather unexpected news that a new, native port of Myth II v1.7.2 is coming to Linux, produced by ProjectMagma. It scores over the older port produced by Loki Software in that it is intended to be network compatible with the existing Windows and OS X versions currently available.

For those interested in helping beta test it, check out this forum thread.

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Myth II: Soulblighter Official Trailer - Bungie

Official trailer for Myth 2: Soulblighter.

game:

myth

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Myth II: Soulblighter Official Teaser Trailer - Bungie

Teaser trailer for the sequel to Bungie's award-winning real time tactics game Myth-- Myth 2: Soulblighter.

game:

myth

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Myth: The Fallen Lords - Behind the Scenes (1997)

This behind-the-scenes video on the development of Myth appeared on a MacAddict disc in 1997. It looks mostly at work to record voice actors, even including a scene where Bungie founder Jason Jones gives dwarven line-readings to Rob O'Donnell, the voice of the Surly Dwarf, father of Marty O'Donnell, one half of the composing team of O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori that produced the soundtracks to both the Myth and Halo series of games developed by Bungie.

Released in 1997, 2012 will mark the 15th anniversary of Myth.

game:

myth

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Beta 2 of Myth II 1.7.2 Posted

The Tain has posted Myth II 1.7.2b2 in several flavors: Windows, Mac Universal, and Mac PowerPC. It's not an installer, just the application itself, so you need to have Myth II 1.7.1 already installed. For the terminally curious, there's a changelog.