The IGN XBox Halo chat wrapped up a few minutes ago, and the channel was instantly plunged into chaos while the sane people fled from the pro, anti, and anti-pro-anti XBox spammers. However, we made it out with a copy of the chat transcript in hand, and it has been posted for your reading delight. An excerpt:

Acinonyx: Will Halo have the same level of editability as many PC games do today (levels/mods/skins/etc)? It seems doubtful on a console system, and if not, will the same limitation be on the later PC release?

Halo_John: There are a lot of issues with allowing user-created content on a console, mostly related to content verification. I doubt we'll see any of that on the Xbox version. When it comes to the PC/Mac versions that's really up to you guys, isn't it? :)

The general mood after the chat was a tinged with disappointment at the lack of really interesting new information, and tainted with all the pent up anger and frustration of the dozens of pre-adolescent spammers, who wasted no time in making the channel unusable. Fortunately, even if you missed it, you can still draw your own conclusions.

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