It’s been rumored for a long time that the PC version of Halo 2 will not support Direct X 10 despite being a Vista only game, however, today those rumors have become concrete fact. This is a real bummer, as many people were excited for the new effects DX10 would allow. You can read the article here: No DX10 for Halo 2.

Moving on, who says gamers aren’t multi talented? A musically gifted Halo fan has written and recorded a song dedicated to Halo entitled the “Mjolnir Song.” You can view the lyrics here: Mjolnir Song Lyrics. If you want to listen to the song, you can check it out here:
Mjolnir Song.
The song is kindly hosted by Bungie.org.

Invalid Mob, a Finnish gaming clan, have collected a plethora of Halo based flash games on their site. They’ve got 17 total now; I have no idea where they found all these, as I’ve looked and only seen 3 or 4. They’ve got everything from launching warthogs to racing banshees to a sweet side scrolling CTF halo. You can check out all the games here: Halo Flash Games

In other news, the new Static Episode 5 is available. The episode is entitled “What Would my Daughter Think?” and in it, Alex has a near death experience and is forced to figure out his next move (I don’t want to give more away than that). Check it out here: Static Episode 5

PS. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

First off today, we’ve got news that, in honor of Halo Week, the latest OXM (Official XBox Magazine) podcast contains exclusive interviews with members of the Halo dev team. The podcast is over an hour long (killer for those with no time on their hands, ie. me); during the podcast they discuss such topics as the new Halo announcements this week, Ghosts of Onyx and many more. You can check the podcast out here: Halo Podcast

In other news, if you’re an incredibly rich person I’ve just found a great opportunity for you to immortalize your name. As part of Penny Arcade’s Charity Auction Dinner, Bungie has listed up a great package for sale. If you were to win, you would get a personalized tour of Bungie PLUS a line of dialogue in Halo 3 dedicated to you. How sweet is that? Read all about Child’s Play here: Child’s Play

Remember that big news I told you about in my last post? Well, its here now. Yup, Bungie announced it today, and boy is it a doozy. Without further adoo…

The first big thing for Spring is the announcement that Bungie will be releasing a flesh and blood Halo 3 Multiplayer demo. There’s currently no news on wether the demo will be available over Xbox Live or if you’ll have to obtain it somewhere else, but, Bungie have promised that it will be available for everyone in Spring. This means worst case scenario you might have to buy a magazine. Bungie had this to say about the demo,

“Through the resulting feedback, Bungie Studios will be able to further refine and hone the end result of Halo 3.”

Ok, so now moving on to the next bit of news. A Halo 3 demo is all fine and dandy, but what about Halo 2? Are Bungie forgetting about their current gen games? *Heck* no! Bungie have also announced that this Spring they will be adding new Halo 2 multiplayer mapS (notice the plural s) exlusiveley for Xbox 360 users.

Yes! In celebration of Halo’s 5 year anniversary, Bungie has announced that sometime this week, they will be giving us some big, no HUGE, Halo news.

Frankie of the Bungie team posted this,

“If you thought there was a lot of Halo information last week, wait ‘till next week. A bunch of stuff is going down to celebrate the 5th anniversary of a little game we like to call Halo. In November 2001, Halo launched alongside the Xbox console, and the rest is history. Next year, Halo 3 will conclude the story arc begun all those years ago and next week, we’ll take a long lingering look at the series to date. There will also be some pretty BIG surprises and maybe announcements. Who can say?”

I’m hoping this means more Halo 3 news, maybe even a new trailer! I guess we’ll have to wait and see though. We’re in for a crazy weekend (PS3 and Wii launches, plus this mystery news).

Be sure to check back this weekend, as I’ll be posting the news as soon as its released.

Original Article here

I found another cool Halo auction on Ebay. This time its a leaded stained glass Halo 3 window made by Jacob’s Stained Glass in Buffalo, NY. The price is $500 right now; unfortunately, it is only available for local pickup in Buffalo. This intricate piece even includes reflective orange glass for the visor! You can check out the auction here: Halo 3 Stained Glass

In other news, you may have forgotten, but today is Halo 2’s birthday! Halo 2 is now 2 years old and still going strong.

Black Guard has collected an awesome set of Halo 2 cakes from around the web. You can check them out here: Halo 2 Cakes. Some of the cakes are truly works of art, my favorite is definitely Steven Evolved’s cake (in the picture above).

And finally, Dennis Powers has released the third episode of Static. You can check out the video here: Halo Static