The crew of HBO is taking a break this weekend… we’ll be back late Sunday night (around midnight UTC, Monday morning). Enjoy your weekend!

A new company, headed by former Bungie vice president (and previous MacSoft executive director) Peter Tamte, has taken charge of bringing Microsoft’s key games, including Bungie’s titles, to our platform.

I suppose this makes sense = Tamte’s new company, and its mission, was announced at MacWorld during the same speech in which Fries and Seropian asserted that Halo would be coming to the Mac – it simply never occurred to us (or to Isolder, apparently). I guess I’d always thought BUNGIE would port it, once they were done with the Xbox version. Just goes to show you… be careful about the assumptions you make.

I was watching Gameplay on the british Sky digital channel dot.TV, and they were doing a review on the X-Box. Surprise surprise, HALO came up, and, to my enjoyment, they did a small feature on it. In this feature (with an interview with Seropian and clips from the E3 movie) Seropian says that HALO is a weapon: certain proof that some of our specualtions were right. Just confermig all the rumours, I know that everyone assumes it is some kind of a weapon anyway.

Interesting… if anyone knows how to get a copy of this broadcast, we’d love to hear about it.

“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.”

And, addressed specifically to Hamish Sinclair:

“Say not, ‘I have found the truth’, but rather, ‘I have found a truth’. For the soul walks upon all paths.”

Has he been drinking again? Or is the fun beginning?

“I can tell you that there will be no more buttons than on the PlayStation controller [8]. We think that’s pretty much the optimum number of inputs most people can deal with in a console controller.

“Also, we really liked the double slot idea from the Dreamcast controller. In the Xbox handset there is a slot for a memory card and a slot for a voice system, so you can wear a microphone and ear-piece while you play. We don’t want to be messing around with keyboards when it comes to consoles.”

Several people have mailed us recently, asking about the possibility of a keyboard being included, or available… this information would suggest it’s not. Link first seen at MSXbox… thanks to ryu for the heads-up.

what Intel processor it will use is still not known (probably to Microsoft as well)

can accurately be said to not be on top of the situation. Nice spot, tulmid!