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Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Silicon Valley startup Transitive Corporation, has stated in an interview with Wired that his company's QuickTransit approach to emulation will allow the Xbox 2 to run games that run on today's Xbox. However, despite this, the company refuses to name any of their six clients, all of which are described as "OEM PC manufacturers" which would not be Microsoft unless you called the Xbox a PC (which is a no-no).

Here's what the article claims Wiederhold said:

For example, Wiederhold said QuickTransit will allow the next-generation Xbox (which will have a Mac-like PowerPC chip) to run first-generation Xbox software (which was written for an Intel chip).

Now perhaps that will allow should have read could allow, but as it's written that sounds a lot to me like he's talking about something that's actually happening, and not just a theoretical possibility. But this is how CEOs, journalists, and PR flacks get in trouble, isn't it?

Thanks to SPOnG for the heads-up.

GameSpy has again taken reader questions and fed them back to Bungie to try and get more information. Here's a summary of what gets clarified this time around:

• The ATV (human ghost equivalent) is not in the game.
• Brutes do not carry flamethrowers.
• Halo 2 will not have bots.

We've used this to clarify a few pages on our Halo 2 FAQ, namely those on boarding and bots.

Geek toy site Engadget has put up a pair of photos that purport to be designs for the successor to Microsoft's Xbox gaming console. GameSpot is reporting that these are most likely fakes, but on the off chance one is a real design under consideration, you could go take a look.

MacSoft has put out a patch to Halo on the Mac to keep pace with the recent update to the PC version. This one supposedly addresses issues with GeForce 6800 cards and patches to "exploitable code". Thanks Nick at Halo Mac Development for the story and HBO for hosting a list of mirrors of the patch.