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Kudos to Yrro, at Halo Center, who noticed that PC Gamer had put up an article on the MS/Bungie issue. What is most interesting to me about this is the tone of betrayal expressed by Rob Smith, Editor-in-Chief of PC Gamer:That’s right. The subject of an in-depth three page preview in the August issue of…

More than 22,000 have now signed the Halo petitionto urge the Bungie Halo team to continue and complete development of the PC and Mac versions of Halo. Please aid the cause.

The Halo SETI Marines keep crunchin’ away but the SETI team rankingshaven’t been updated since last Tuesday. What’s up with that? Team membership stands at 426 recruits and Banzif is heading for that magic 7777 unit number. Help in the search for the Covenant!

Mentioned on R.net yesterday, but we slipped until Douglas Long tweaked us… Viceland has put up their take on the MS/Bungie deal. Hmm. Warning: if you work at a puritanical company, don’t visit this site from there.

Man, that Crux… first he’s off by an order of magnitude on the petition (understandable, he’s using a 9″ screen, and has it set to 1600×1200), now he gets the Shirt Story wrong. Seems the Story page t-shirts aren’t sold out… they aren’t sold, period. Jon Chang isn’t allowed to sell them by mail, so…

Antares has posted part 2 of an ongoing story on our forum… you can also read it on our Fan Fiction page. And remember… the ‘More by this author’ link on that page will allow you to read all segments sequentially.

Thanks to Majid “X” Manzarpour who points out on our forums that there are now 20000+ signatures at http://www.game-over.net/halo/. We have to agree with Majid it’s a “landmark figure”. Go sign up if you haven’t already. Bungie are paying close attention to it. Let them know we want Halo for the PC and Mac.

“Story page t-shirts sold out” says Hamish. All 49 of the shirts for the Macworld New York Bungie Fanfest 2000have been pre-ordered. Let’s hope they do another print run. Go read the seven reasons why you should have a Marathon’s Story t-shirt.

Don’t miss out on the Halo fun over at Penny Arcade The last two strips have been Halo related. Check theJune 21th and June 23rd strips.

Should Halo be Xbox only? 82% presently say NO at PlanetXbox. Make your voice heard!

Should Halo be Xbox only? PlanetXbox are running a poll with the question “Should Halo be Xbox only?”. Time to vote with your finger. Make your voice heard. Thanks to MakeMineRed for the heads up.

The Bungie Gathering in on! Freewill announces on our forums that they’ll be a Bungie fanfest to coincide with Macworld Expo New York. Details of the event can be found at bs.bungie.org. Alex Seropian, Max Hoberman, and Matt Soell are slated to appear as is Hamish Sinclair of theMarathon’s Story page all the way from…

If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Mark Levin asked Matt Soell about the PCFormat quote on our forum… and Matt set the record straight. There’s no word yet on whether a PC version will ever come out. That’s not a no, it’s not a yes. It’s a resounding “We don’t…

Kudos to D’n’A for posting more info about the Halo preview in the July issue of PCZone Benelux (Dutch gaming mag). It’s going to have a monthly Halo diary featuring new and exclusive never-seen-before pictures and interviews with the designers. Here’s how D’n’A describes one of the new pics in the article:There’s concept art showing…

PCFormat Daily, the website of British mag PCFormat, suggests that at the very least, a PC version of Halo is still on the table.Microsoft actually rang us yesterday to give us the bottom line on what’s going on. Bungie will *definitely* remain an independent group within Microsoft – getting access to the big M’s marketing…

D’n’A writes to say that the new issue of PCZone Benelux is out, with exclusive Halo stuff. The Red Covenant vehicle firing, a new sniper-rifle-type Covenant weapon, and more. Info as we get it.

In an interview with MCV NowMicrosoft Games VP Ed Fries gives his views on the Bungie buyout and their “properties”. Here’s part of the interview:No decisions have been made about which Bungie properties besides Halo will be developed for Xbox. As to whether Halo will be released for PC or Mac, Fries is coy, telling…

It’s official no Bungie booth at Macworld Expo. As reported on MacCentralBungie won’t have a booth at next month’s Macworld Expo according to CEO Alexander Seropian. They’ll be Bungie people there though. MacCentral report:Bungie founder and CEO Alexander Seropian confirms that while his company won’t have a booth at the show, it will still exhibit…

As reported on r.net Bungie’s Joseph Staten will be moving to Redmond to head a fourth development team that will focus on creating all the cinematics for HALO and future titles. Here’s what he had to say:In case you’re curious, I am going to Redmond. It’s a great opportunity for me. I’ll be heading up…

Syburwolf wrote to Matt Soell with a couple of questions, and got this response: >Will the deal with Microsoft put the games(and thus the Macintosh versions >:->) into the main stream stores a.k.a. -Walmart, Best Buy- or will it just >mean an ugly (pardon my bias) Microsoft logo on the box… Also, will you >be…