Well, into the great yawning void that is Halo news at the moment, a few pebbles must fall.

Big kudos to Rolf, who pointed out an earthshattering article at Vice Games, detailing the effects of Microsoft's acquisition of Bungie on Halo. And while it takes a lot to rattle me, I must say, I'm quite stunned. A must read, and while you're there, be sure to check out their Big Rick skin.

Kudos to Mhaddy, who pointed out a new but fairly basic Halo preview at Jack In Online Gaming. Most of you will likely be familiar with the information given in the article, but a particular paragraph stood out:

The good folk of halo.bungie.org have spotted a rather disturbing sentence in an IGN Xbox interview with Kevin Bacchus, Microsoft's Director of Third Party Relations. The sentence?

The halo.bungie.org forum currently features a couple of very informative posts from Matt Soell. Here are a few snippets:

I caught this just today from the newest Apple E-News report:

During his keynote address, Steve Jobs welcomed Ed Fries onto the Macworld stage. Vice President of Games for Microsoft, Fries reassured the audience. Yes, Microsoft certainly will release Halo for the Mac. In fact, it will be released for the Mac at the same time it is released for X-Box, Microsoft’s new videogame console.

However, when asked about this in the HBO forum, Matt Soell had this to say:

Matt's been responding to questions about the E3 Halo trailer in a couple of threads at halo.bungie.org. On the subject of why there was relatively little blood and gore shown, he said: