Ruzhyo posted at HBO that the latest OXM's rumor mole does mention the fictional Halo add-on that Matt recently denied exists. Move along now, nothing to see here...

According to a flock of little birds that invaded this evening, a beta version of the Vengeance editor for Myth III for the PC has been posted over at Antennahead. I don't know if they intended this to be available for one and all... but there it is.

On the heels of that news came this thread in the MythVillage forum, where it is rumored that Vengeance doesn't have support for scripting. El Bastard says that Loathing for Myth II can be used for that, but others have told us that attempting this causes Loathing to crash.

More as it develops.

XboxAddict has put up a page summarizing what's in issue #2 of OXM, due out in January. And although it's got a Halo trailer, it doesn't have a demo or any mention of the rumored add-on that Matt Soell recently denied existed. So this rumor was vapor from day one, apparently.

Someone named TheDuke1213 posted in the HBO forum that he'd heard a rumor there would be a huge add-on product for Xbox Halo coming out next year, including new multiplayer levels. He went on that it would supposedly be confirmed in the next edition of OXM. Matt shut that down pretty quickly:

Trust me: just because something is printed in a magazine doesn't make it true.

If we wanted to ship such an ambitious product in Q2 2002, we'd have to be working furiously on it right now. But we're not. And we're still not planning any add-ons for Xbox Halo.

Let's hope that's because they're busy figuring out how to bring Halo to the Macintosh and the PC.

AdReview might have had a point about absolute morons at gaming sites.

Problem was, they were talking about the wrong people.

Not even one day after Matt Soell re-re-reconfirms Halo for the PC and Mac for the umpteenth gajillionth time over in the HBO forum, PlanetXbox's John Yan slaps this bit right at the top of their news page, where it's almost guaranteed to generate another week's worth of whining about how Halo is Xbox Only or Xbox Exclusive or other such nonsense:

Like Halo, New Legends was destined for the PC until Microsoft's Xbox obtained the exclusive rights to the title.

Does Microsoft own the rights to Halo? Certainly. Is Halo an Xbox Exclusive ? Only in the sense of not coming to another console, because of course once again Matt has said:

We still plan to do a Mac and PC version of Halo.

And then he goes on to explain why they don't have any more information about when and how that will happen and why that doesn't affect the fact that it WILL happen.

Of course, PlanetXbox, as a site devoted to the Xbox, isn't particularly interested in what is or isn't coming to other platforms; but as a Member of the GameSpy Network that DOES cover other platforms, you'd think there'd be some way of getting information from the left hand to the right to head off this kind of error.

UPDATE: The forum link has been updated to reflect the passage of Matt's post into HBO's forum archive.

We wish. ;)

According to MacGames.de, via halo.bungie.org, Take Two is slating Oni for release in June and Halo in September, more or less on Bungie's original target date. Just in time for school... so much that semester.

Of course, these are probably estimates to be taken with a grain of salt. Take Two is indeed Bungie's publisher, but the actual schedule depends on Bungie, and not until they give out a firm date can we be sure about this.

Well, GameSpot's article from yesterday turned out to be just a blasphemous rumor. Here's the poop straight from Matt Soell of Bungie:

Well, actually....that whole confirmation thing on Gamespot isn't true, in the strictest sense of the word. Sony hasn't approved Halo for PS2 yet, and while obviously we and Take Two would both like it to happen, it has not happened yet. Rumors are funny things. :-)Obviously we think Halo would rock on PS2 but apart from signing up as a developer, we haven't done anything towards getting the game on that platform - the first step of which is going to Sony and saying Here's what the game will be like, are you cool with this? Take Two, for that matter, also has done no work in this regard.

There you have it. As Ferr says, believe nothing that you hear, and only half of what you see.

Kudos to Pfor for posting in our pforum about a new, short article at GameSpot. They report confirming that Take Two will be converting Halo to the video-gaming platform. One can just anticipate the beads of sweat breaking out on the competitions' forehead. ;-)

• Forum: Halo Confirmed for PSX2

Noctavis pointed out an oddball rumor at www.bungie.org today, suggesting that Bungie might be in line to produce a Matrix title at some point in the future. While there is no confirmation from Bungie, it would be an unusual (albeit interesting) use of the Halo or more likley Oni engines.

Of course, one must keep one's head when dealing with rumors like this. With no less than four projects under way at Bungie East and West, Bungie has their hands full with in house productions, and really has no history of creating games based on anything but their own stories. Keep those grains of salt handy, folks.

• Forum: Who will make the Matrix?

Kudos to SpacemanSpiff for exposing this dramatic revelation in Halo's ongoing development: according to this transcript there not only exists a playable demo of Halo already, but it's spread beyond Bungie!

Ye gods!!

Well, this concludes our evening broadcast. Be listening again tomorrow when we announce Halo 2: Soulbringer, and provide release dates for all future Bungie releases.

• Forum: Halo out in February

Kudos to Fly Molo, who pointed out a news item at psx.ign.com that further confirms Halo for the PS2, but oddly enough not the Dreamcast.

The Playstation 2 port is expected to come after the PC-Mac simultaneous release. This should be welcome for people out there who can't afford to upgrade their systems for Halo but want to enjoy it nonetheless.

• Forum: Halo In Production for PS2

You knew it had to happen... in the torrent of information yesterday, there was apparently some misinfo. A reader at Bungie pointed out two of the more glaring ones:

Blue's news is incorrect that it will only offer D3D support.

The other source [Macweek] is wholly incorrect ... making up (completely out of its ass, apparently) about 16 vs. 16 team play and BungieNet.com , which it also mentions. We have said none of this and we will certainly support more than D3D.

Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.