Jason Snell, editor of MacWorld, has a column up recounting the good times he had playing network games of Marathon while working at MacUser, and insists that Marathon is really at the core of what Halo is:

James at HaloMods writes that the multiplayer version of Assault on the Control Room is now complete and released as version 1.3. MonoxideC is running a server for it as well, check HaloMods for the information.

Bungie games never die, but they do live on in websites that use frames. You have been warned.

However, if you're in the mood for a blast from the past, check out the Pathways Into Darkness page at Bungie.org, where Hamish Sinclair, who maintains that page as well as the compendious and excellent Marathon Story Page, has added information on the A1 demo version of Pathways Into Darkness that was released way back in July of 1993 before MacWorld Boston that year.

Wraith has produced a mod for Halo PC that you can get at HaloMods that allows you to use the Fuel Rod Gun the SpecOps Grunts use in the level Two Betrayals. He wants his gold star.

This news is a bit old, but we missed it the first time around, so here goes.

Loren Petrich has said if there's interest, he will modify the MML (that's Marathon Markup Language) used in Aleph One (the open source version of the Marathon engine) to support models made by a program called DimAnimator.

The reason? Spnkrghol has been cooking up some great models for use in Aleph One.

Pfhorslayer writes on the Postpose Software website that the development of Aquaduct Two, the Macintosh-based Xbox tunneler, is proceeding nicely:

HHHT has been updated to version 1.40, and fixes some bugs as well as adds some new features. Thanks BOLL. Go to Omnight.com to download the new version.

[image:7214 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]A couple more projects are underway to bring new netmaps to PC Halo, still without the as-yet-unreleased Halo Editing Kit. (We're pretty sure that's going to become part of the official name at this point.)

Madrox is creating a new multiplayer level out of the architecture at the top of Boarding Action, with some new architecture as well using a technique known as "multi-inject". There's a video over at HaloMods.

Devin Olsen and Gil27 have put up a movie and some screenshots of multiplayer action on the engine room portion of The Maw. You may remember that a poll at Halo Mods asked what level, after the Library, should be converted into a multiplayer level, and this was one of the choices.

The map isn't available for download yet, but it might be... sometime...

Everybody is doing it now. And just when you think you can start to ignore new HUDless screenshots, some really nice ones come along.

Earlier this month, XBC Tourneys posted that they will be producing what they call The Ultimate Halo Tricks DVD, with high quality videos of all tricks on all multiplayer maps. Don't know if these are entirely original videos, or a collection of those that already exist (hope they got all the authors' permission if it's the latter).

GarageGames, which licenses the Torque engine that was used to make games such as Tribes2, has lifted a restriction from their Independent Developer license, and changed the Commercial Developers license as well.

TheLostHog over in the HBO forum is somehow intimating that Oni, the third-person action game that combined hand-to-hand combat with firearms, is somehow, how shall we say it, less Bungielike than certain other games.

So here's a call to the Oni fans-- are you out there? What do you think of Oni (forum thread) compared to other Bungie offerings like Myth, Marathon, and, dare I ask, Halo?

Okay, let's turn a fiasco into a free-for-all. vector40 has taken Jester's tip about braking, along with techniques of his own, goatrope's, and Orion's, and put together three vids showing how you can fly a banshee upside down, among other techniques. Links to the vids, along with explanations of what is in them, are in this HBO forum post.