James M. Burke

Last Monday, Bungie released 5 new multiplayer maps for Halo 2. The newly named maps are Gemini, Relic, Elongation, Terminal, and Backwash. They are all incredible and are well worth the $11.99 to download them online. More information is available here.

Yesterday, Bungie updated their multiplayer playlists to include the previous 4 maps (Warlock, Containment, Sanctuary, and Turf) in their core playlists. The reason for this delay was that they were just made available to everyone for free recently. They also fixed a few other minor things, such as having a Banshee on Ascension Rifles.

All in all, a very important and very great release by Bungie!

For all of you Mac users out there, Apple just released their 10.4.2 update to Tiger. Its key features are:

- file sharing using AFP and SMB/CIFS network file services
- single sign-on authentication and reliable access to Active Directory servers
- autologin for managed user accounts
- AirPort and wireless access
- Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, including updatedATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers
- Finder updates including finding on Kind and using Slideshow
- synchronizing your iDisk with .Mac
- installation reliability
- managing Dashboard widgets
- Address Book, Automator, iCal, iChat, Mail, Safari, and Stickies applications
- compatibility with third party applications and devices

The update weighs in at about 44MB. You can get more information Here.