GameInformer has an interesting but unsubstantiated rumor up on their site right now: a Halo 3 demo is coming in early 2007 to Xbox Live.

We're titling this as a rumor, but even so, sources have revealed to Game Informer Online that there will be a Halo 3 demo released over Xbox Live in the first half of 2007. Obviously Microsoft hasn't revealed any details yet, but we wouldn't be too surprised if something was dropped in the second or third week of November. You know, just to mess a bit with the PlayStation 3 and Wii launches.

GameInformer muses that this might be the first demo Microsoft charges for, which certainly seems to be the direction the whole Marketplace is going: charge for everything that used to be free. My question is whether or not it will be single player or multiplayer. My guess is the latter, as some sort of stress test, but personally I have very little interest in Halo outside of the wonderful setting, story and personalities of its single player campaign. Florian Eckhardt

Rumor: Halo 3 Demo Coming Early Next Year [Game Informer]

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