Jason Loonyboi Bergman from Shacknews recently interviewed Chris DiCesar, Microsoft Games' group PR manager, about the status of the PC/Mac ports of Halo. In terms of when it will happen, DiCesar said it's still up in the air . He also indicates that no actual work has even begun on the port:

Sometime in the future, we may all have our hands on the game that Bungie originally intended to make when they began work on Halo.

And no, we're not talking about the Mac/PC version (which, by the way, will still happen, as far as everyone knows).

No, we're talking about a version of Halo featuring online multiplayer for MS' Xbox Live gaming service that is slated to begin beta testing later this year.

Yeroen at Bungie.net, Louis Wu at HBO and dr. britney spears at RHL all let us know that the Halo Soundtrack's release date has been set: June 11, 2002.

The complete story is at music4games.net. Preorders are being taken in the Bungie Store.

Just kind of a non-update update, since news is slow.

Matt popped onto the HBO forum recently to respond to continuing questions about the PC and Macintosh versions of Halo and said:

David Candyman Candland of Bungie.net is reporting that Official Xbox Magazine subscribers received the Halo demo with their edition this month. It includes a Normal difficulty version of Silent Cartographer... apparently with a different ending...

Well, since there's no official word-- in fact, there are official denials going back quite awhile-- take this note with a few heaping tablespoons of salt.

But Bella Online's Lisa Shea isn't backing down off her insinuation that Halo will be broadband enabled:

It should be out in another month or two, as the main core of the XBox broadband rollout. I am VERY eagerly waiting for that.

Pressed to confirm, she stated:

We've mirrored two new Halo movies here at Rampancy: the first is the third Halo Movie trailer from Blackstar Productions. It's available here, at the Blackstar Productions website, and from Mythica.org.

Does Lisa Shea know something about Halo we don't?

That's what you might conclude, based on the review of Halo she wrote for Bella Online (thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up).

There's an interview with Max Yeroen Hoberman over at xbox.com, according to Deimos Fawkes over at Subnova.

We now have a local copy of the Breaking The Rules video (18Mb) by Team Overkill in our movies area. Enjoy!