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Halo 2 PC Vista Only, With Exclusive Content
Via 1up and Kotaku, news from the most recent Bungie weekly update. Work on Halo 2 PC is continuing apace, but players looking forward to the game should know a few things. The game looks to be Vista only and, despite the promise of the 'Live Anywhere' concept, will not be interconnected in the way that the Shadowrun game will be. The Bungie update clarifies on these announcements. From the article: "Will I need a DirectX 10 graphics card to run Halo 2 on PC? No. Although you will require Windows Vista to play Halo 2 on a PC, you won't necessarily need to upgrade your graphics card to do it. Halo 2, like some other Vista titles, will work just fine on a wide range of graphics cards, including DX9 cards. We will provide far more detailed minimum hardware requirements closer to the game's completion."
...if Slashcode had some feature to allow Zonk to schedule games stories to be displayed at some future time, so that instead of clumping all the games stories into one three-hour game-a-thon, we can discuss a story for a good couple of hours before moving on to the next one?
Wait a minute, you mean Slashcode does have that feature? Zonk's just doesn't use it? Why, I never!
Please, Zonk. Space out the stories. And so people know what I'm talking about, here are the last several Game-section stories:
18:56 GMT A Tale in the Desert III Launches
19:30 GMT Neverwinter Nights Put Out To Pasture (34 minutes later)
20:21 GMT Why There Are No Hit Indie Games (51 minutes later)
20:43 GMT Xbox Live's First Big Update (22 minutes later)
21:38 GMT How the PS3 Hit $600 (55 minutes later)
22:24 GMT Halo 2 PC Vista Only, With Exclusive Content (46 minutes later)
And, as I wrote out this post, another story "will be ready soon".
Please, at least try and space game-related content out evenly over a complete day. This constant clump of game-related stories all at once gets tiring.
At a guess it probably uses DirectX 10, which will only be available for Vista.
Don't know why DirectX 10 is only available in Vista though, given that DirectX 9.0c is available from every MS OS from Windows 98 to XP...
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