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Mr Smiley writes that in addition to a new comic, there's a new section called Cool Crap at Halo Babies.

Louis Wu at HBO, tipped off by Toxicoman and Howie, posted that there are system requirements for Mac Halo listed at the Apple Store. Look on the right hand side, in the "New to the Store" column, or do a search for "Halo". Nevermind that MacSoft's Al Schilling said only yesterday they weren't determined yet. Here's what the Store says:

• Power PC G4 700 Mhz or faster
• Mac OS X 10.2.5
• 256MB RAM (iMacs req. 512MB)
• Radeon 8500 or Geforce 2 MX with 32MB

A couple of interesting notes there. Despite the much-vaunted "Megahertz Myth", and the difference between OpenGL and DirectX9, the requirements for PC and Mac Halo are nearly identical. That says to me that either the video card is more important to Halo than anything else, or these system requirements are really just a copy of the PC requirements.

SketchFactor of B.net posted in the HBO forum that MTV is holding a poll to determine the best game of the new millenium, called the Ultimate Video Game Countdown. Halo is one of many options. Oddly enough, rather than trying to control multiple voting, MTV's poll system actually suggests it, providing a link "feel free to vote again". What the poll doesn't do is show you the results, so we have no idea how well Halo is doing at the moment. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.

ReviewGamer gave PC Halo an 8.96 out of 10 score overall; the review is almost completely positive, in comparison to most recent reviews. Thanks Blue's News.