Microsoft & Bungie?

maybe i'll just have to buy bungie.......

OT:

http://www.gamespy.com/stats/index.shtm

Muahahahahaha

Nah... they're not sellouts.

Billy G. better not fuck up HALO!

To hell with Halo, I want my fucking Oni multiplayer put back in, and Microsoft may just have enough brains to force the issue. (Since it doesn't threaten to embarrass their internet support as it does Sony's, heh.)

#67 - Agreed on the exclusivity thing. I severely doubt that MS would actively antagonize Mac loyalists for no good reason. I can see them perhaps delaying the PC release, which would be more effective anyway.

I do think it might be justifiable to delay both PC and Mac versions until after Xbox release, if it involved a nice suite of editing and server paraphernalia.

Does anyone know why Microsoft released Starlancer and Allegiance almost directly against each other? Did it have something to do with Tachyon?

einexile

Doesn't Take Two Interactive own part or all of Bungie?

I dont care what happens, as long as my sweet sweet baby Halo still comes out

Most of the stink about MS buying Bungie is coming from the mac crowd. Bungie is like thier favorite son. There are obvious and natural concerns that this could jeopardize future mac development (spare me platform trashing ok?).

The other thing that has some peoples panties in a knot - and I dont know why cause its utter horseshit - is the rumor that Halo will be an X-Box exclusive or that it will have a several months sales window available only on the x-box. Thats utter crap, imo. I could perhaps see Halo being a console title exclusive to the x-box but the rest is just silly.

Anyone here ever hear about that guy that went bungie jumping, but the bungie cord was ten feet too long? Well he didn't make it.. but i did hear about this guy that went skydiving the chute didn't open, but he still lived... this world is crazy.

I don't know why you people are so against Microsoft. To be honest, when you look at what they provide to 90% of the world's computers, it's amazing that their software is as stable and secure as it is. Do any of you think you could program software that would run the large majority of computer systems and work reliably most of the time?

I use win98 on my machine at home and it's stable as a rock. In fact at work I use win98, and my co-worker is a linux guru, and *his* machine is the one that crashes all the time.

I'm no MS junkie or supporter or whatever, but I do recognize the amount of programming prowess that MS must possess to even attempt to create mass market general OS's that for the most part work really well.

As for them buying Bungie, I think that it would be a good move, and here's why:

1) Bungie could use the money, as could any company
2) MS has games divisions, so it's not like they are totally clueless about gaming software. Motocross Madness, AoE, Flight Simulator?
3) Could you imagine how much *better* halo would be if Bungie had intimate Direct X knowledge from the programmers of the API themselves?
4) Bungie would be getting *immediate* access to the X-Box..

And here's why Microsoft *needs* to do more things like this, i.e., snap up small game publishers:

1) They need in-house titles for the X-Box. No gaming console in the past 20 years has ever survived without strong in-house content. Right now the only content I can think of that MS has in house is Motocross Madness, AoE, and Flight Simulator.
2) They have precedent to do this. Sony did this with Psygnosis and a few other companies, in order to shore up their 1st party titles.

I really believe this would be beneficial not only to MS but to Bungie as well, and in the end, us gamers..

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RD-Natoma
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Er...


Quake 3 is less than popular right now?

*Shrug*

It is 8 AM.

Agreed, Natoma. You're spot on. Microsoft is just an easy target for most of these guys. They don't understand how this industry works. It's funny that people view everything done in this industry should be altruistic- they don't fully comprehend the fact that what runs it is money, pure and simple. Best man wins. Best competitor wins. Barely any rules.

"OH! Did you forget to get on the MS bashing bandwagon? It's so easy to do these days."

GOD, SAVE BUNGIE FROM MICROSOFT,PLEASE!!!!

Didn't they kind of deny X-Box at first too?
Maybe they could call the Bungie division Mythsoft.

If i was Bill I would just keep it by Minesweeper.

24: OMFG, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO QUAKE 3?!?!? NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

38, Did you see the polys on those beast things? That is NOT going to run on a TNT2 unless you can scale it down to a cube.

Halo movie r0x0rz, too bad ill need a GeForce 2 for it to look that pretty =(

Just wait untill the good mods for Quake III are out! like Navy Seals! HELL YEAH! it'll have 10,000+!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't work for google or anything, but they use a new-fangled search algorithim that isn't key-word driven.. it's like.. well.. they explain it better in the faq, but it's damn interesting.

Avixe,

I think your search for a Solaris client for AOL IM is going to be largely unsuccessful, as I've found that AOL, which did share it's IM web protocols for a short time, has now privatized those...
However, I did find a search engine, called google.com, which offers a fair bit of flexibility, and lent itself to quite a few hits which were ALMOST what you were looking for.. so maybe if you look a bit more on that site, you'll find somethin.

whats up home-chickens

Does anyone know what happened to "the other Bungie game," Oni? Last I read on it was that it was coming for Dreamcast or PS2, but I don't seem to recall it ever coming out for PC.

btw, 50% on that halo movie! w00t!

Is this all we get for the whole day? If so, I think I'll just go mind-rape the weather-girls on TV!

MICROSOFT SUCKS! I HOPE THEY DONT RUIN HALO!!!!!

I did type some text - BOZO!

jth post!!