Spong, featuring a new Googlified logo, put up a story late last night (so it's not an April Fool's joke, at least not a fair one) that says the Xbox 2 will have downloadable demo content right at launch.

In other news:

• rapture at cooked gamers wonders if these are Halo 3 screenshots...
• HBO is hosting Mat "shunji" Noguchi's GDC talk on Bungie's tag system as used in Halo and Halo 2.
• Blackstar documents vehicle warping in real life.
• Team Tabula Rasa has put up its first two strategy columns: Making of a Spartan by Furiont and Sententia per Antiquus by Faewraith113.

Another big fan art update over at Halo Babies. Thanks mrsmiley.