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Worried about a Mac version? So is PlanetCrap. (Thanks to Luxor, of Halo Vault, for the heads-up.)

Matthew Rothenberg opines about the message Microsoft is sending to Mac users in an article entitled “Bungie’s Mac Ties” on ZDNet. Worth a read. Thanks to Jonathan Haas (formerly of the Myth II team) for the heads-up on our forum.

When we mentioned the petition to keep up Halo development for Mac/PC 6 hours ago, there were 196 signatures on the page. Now, that number has grown to over 6500, and continues to climb. It’s moved to a more stable server, to handle the incredible load. If you haven’t signed it yet, you might want…

An exclusive Halo shot has found its way into our inbox. You can see it here.

Stryker writes to tell us that Halo HQ is back online after a brief unscheduled outage.

Michael Maddux writes to let us know that a petition to keep up development of Halo for Mac/PC is online, and currently has almost 200 signatures. Stop by and let Bungie know how you feel! Pax.

Neko-chan points out the MacCentral interview with Alex Seropian, which is hard to read without serious misgivings about future Mac development of Halo. To recap, here’s a list of interviews, chats, and official releases over the past few days.Bungie employee interviews:Daily Radar’s 2nd interview with Jason JonesPG IGN interview with Ed Fries (Microsoft) and Alex…

A secret CIA source who asked not to be identified sent along this aerial reconnaissance photo of the Microsoft complex in Redmond. Seems the Bungie offices have already been added. Pax.

The end is here. The Halo SETI Marines lost another big member today (DarthFlounder, with 1210 units), increasing the hemorrhage total to over 2000 units in 2 days. We’ve been processing stats for this team since late October of last year, and we’ve watched it grow from a small group of Halo fanatics to one…

MacGamer’s Ledge have posted a feature called “Former Access Software Employee speaks out on Microsoft relationship”in which a former Access Software employee shares his own experiences after his employer, also a game developer, was purchased by Microsoft. Note: Bungie maintain that they have a different relationship with Microsoft and that Microsoft have learnt from previous…

More Microsoft/Bungie humor from Penny Arcade. Click on the Latest Comic link to see the strip. Thanks to Forensic for the heads up in our forums

PlanetXbox posted the following to their main page:With the recent announcement of Microsoft buying Bungie we can all look forward to playing Halo on the Xbox! With Halo becoming an X-box title,will it make it to PC at all? Word from inside the company is that Halo will be an X-Box exclusive for a few…

A far more easily read version of the IRC log from yesterday’s chat is now available. This has had much of the extraneous info deleted (comings and goings, nick changes, etc), so if you’re interested in that sort of thing, Halo Vault has put up a complete log, with all that data in it.

Max Hoberman (yeroen), Matt Soell (Proudfles), and ol_dirtae (name pending) showed up in irc channel #bungie this afternoon, and a couple of hours discussed the future of Bungie with the nearly 100 people who attended. Thanks to everyone who showed up… and for those who couldn’t be there, we’ve put up a raw irc log…

Something about the shock of the last few days has brought out the writer in several. The Fan Fiction page has been updated with not one, not two, but three new stories… go check ’em out! (Thanks to Vap, Myndreach, and Antares for the submissions.)

Yet another Seropian interview… this time with Gamefan. Not a lot new… but how many times can you say “we think we’re doing the right thing” without sounding repetitive? Thanks to Luxor of Halo Vault for the heads-up.

Shugashack and Daily Radar are both reporting that Eidos is shopping around for a buyer, and Microsoft is high on the list. That monopolistic tendency just won’t settle down, will it? Pax.

Blam!… The Halo SETI Marines scrape into 48th place, despite heavy losses. Banzif and Maxaminus take top honors… but it feels wrong. Check the 24 hour stats.

Just for kicks, we compared our traffic yesterday to a random day last week. Seems like a lot of folks stopped by for the MS news. 🙂 June 12June 19Total Visits2890 7604Total Pages5536 13,252Total Requests32,291 77,352Total Unique Visitors1754 4491

Robert X. Cringely, a columnist for Oregon Public Broadcasting (and the Public Broadcasting System), wrote an interesting article last year entitled “Be Careful What You Wish For.” It suggests that being acquired by Microsoft is not always what the acquiree thinks it’s going to be; it looks at Hotmail as an example. It’s definitely worth…