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Some good natured humor on the Microsoft-Bungie buyout at utterer.com. Check out that “Reasons Why Microsoft Bought Bungie” Infographic. 😉

“I am really concerned as to how our PC and Mac fans are going to view this deal…” says Alex Seropian. Gamespy have posted aninterview with Alex Seropian, founder and CEO of Bungie, and Ed Fries, vice president of Microsoft Games Group. Make sure you read this one. Alex is quoted as saying the following:…

Doug Zartman to leave Bungie! We’ve just learnt that Doug “the voice of Bob” Zartman is leaving Bungie software. Microsoft are taking over Bungie’s marketing and the whole Dept are out the door. Gawd I’m depressed Doug was Bungie’s oldest employee. Looks like Jim Ruiz and the Bungie Store are next in line for the…

Microsoft make it official! Thanks to Blue’s News once again for posting the Microsoft’s official press release on their acquisition of Bungie:Microsoft to Acquire Bungie SoftwareREDMOND, Wash. – June 19, 2000 – Microsoft Corp. today announced it acquired Chicago-based Bungie Software Products Corp., a leading independent developer of action oriented computer and video games. As…

“We cannot promise that a Windows or Mac version of Halo will ship, but we can’t rule it out either.”says Doug Zartman. Our good friends over at Blue’s News have scored an interview with Bungie’s Doug Zartman. The voice of Bob tells it like it is!

Marathon’s Story page to close? We can’t believe it?We’re seeking confirmation on this one folks. There’s an announcement coming linked to some countdown thingie. Gawd!

The Bungie fan community begins to crumble. The premiere Myth files site “The Mill” run by long time Bungie fan Randall Shaw has closed its doors due to the Microsoft buy out of Bungie. Sad news for Myth fans. Thanks to Bagman on our forums.

Oni Central the premiere Oni site run by Harry Al-Shakarchi is committed to staying. Here’s the announcement:Oni Central is here to stay as your source for Oni information and news. I hope you will join me when Oni is released and we can finally enjoy the fruits of Bungie West’s labour.

Daily Raider gets the scoop with a total of four pieces on the Microsoft-Bungie buyout:Microsoft buys Bungie: Confirmed5 Things You Must Know About Microsoft’s Buying BungieInterview with Jason Jones about Bungie’s FutureDiagram of what’s going to be published by whom

Some Bungie-Microsoft humor from Penny Arcade to brighten your day. Thanks to Jagu on our forums.

“We do care about our fans and about the Mac” says Bungie’s Jason Jones. In an exclusive interviewwith Daily Raider Jason reiterated Bungie’s continued support for their fans and the Mac:Daily Raider: Do you feel, as many people are claiming on forums, that you are stabbing an icy dagger through the hearts of your most…

“Microsoft buys Bungie to bolster its development of games for personal computers and its planned X-Box video-game console” says Microsoft. Here’s a quote from the press release:”Bungie is going to move up to Redmond and create great games for the PC and X-Box and really help us shape X-Box as the games platform of the…

Microsoft buy Bungie. Halo for X-box. The rumors were true. ‘Nuff said.

More rumors for your money. Thanks to PUnk for spotting two alternative views to the rumored Microsoft-Bungie buyout one at PS2IGN and the other at XBoxIGN.

Halo in PCGamer (UK). Haloplayers have posted a small pic of the cover of the July edition of PCGamer (UK). It sports the Halo marine in action. According to Jenkz of Haloplayers the July edition will have some exclusive Halo coverage.

Edgecrusher sends word that pcgames.de have a gaming poll to crush. Lots of games to choose from but there can be only one!

Louis did some HBO server stats and posted the percentage of Windows and Mac OS users to theforums. We felt the figures were worth repeating here:45.4% MacOS50.8% Windows (31% Win98, 11% Win95, 7% NT, 2% Win2000)The remainder is various flavors of Unix, and 6 WebTV hits, and 3 Amiga hits. (!!) Ok who has the…

Halo wins Blue’s News Best of E3 2000. Thanks to Kamikaze who posts to our forums thatBlue’s News have posted their Best of E3 2000awards. Halo won “Best of Show”. This is what Stephen “Blue” Heaslip had to say:Best of ShowHalo. Combining state-of-the-art graphics, with state-of-the-art teamplay, this is TRIBES meets Quake III Arena, and…

More Halo font impropriety spotted over at the Marathon’s Story page. Harry “the Tome” Al-Shakarchi found a German web page forAxe Phoenix deodorant which uses the Halo font. The Story page has been reporting about this flagrant abuse of Bungie’s Halo font for some time now. Go get ’em Bungie!

Thanks to our HBO offices in Berlin (Germany) we’ve got some German Halo news for you.First off HaloNews noted a Halo preview at Krawall Gaming Network. Three pages long and quite detailed but no new screenshots and some are actually scans taken fromHaloplayers. What’s Jenkz going to do about that?Halo Network report a German Halo…