The November Official Xbox Magazine (OXM) has quite a few whoppers in their Rumor Mole column. Below are some of the most notable along with my comments:

F.E.A.R. and Hellgate, two PC shooters, are making their way onto the Xbox 360. I had mentioned after playing the F.E.A.R. demo this was perfect for porting to the 360, and now it looks like I’m getting my wish. Good thing I didn’t pre-order the PC version. The Mole says Monolith already has it “barely” running on the 360, since they’ve already got the dev kits for Condemned – which, as we know, doesn’t mean anything because a lot of companies have dev kits for systems they don’t support, such as Square having development kits for the Xbox (or was it Dreamcast?).

Midway is working on an Area 51 sequel using the Unreal 3 engine. Considering how awesome the first one looked on current-generation consoles, I’d say this is one to look forward to.

Halo 2 will be automatically upconverted to 720p on the 360. I had noticed on Halo 2 how the textures seemed to scale down based on system performance, and you can actually see the texture definition and effects being turned down during a scene, then being bumped up again. At first I was thinking how Halo 2 was made for one of those super overpowered modded Xboxes like the Friendtech DreamX-1480 (benefitting from a 1.4GHz CPU, double that of the stock 733MHz CPU). Now I just see that it was Microsoft’s trojan horse all along. It also seems all but confirmed thanks to an official post on Bungie’s website, quoting, “We have some cool stuff coming up for you in the next couple of weeks, including … a look (well, maybe more of a discussion) at Halo 2 running on 360, so look out for that.” Very sweet, indeed.

System Shock sequel coming to the Xbox 360. Irrational Games announced Bio Shock, the sequel to the awesome PC game System Shock 2, about a year ago. Since then, news has been pretty quiet. Although the news of Xbox 360 support obviously isn’t confirmed, it is definitely exciting. A port of System Shock 2 was one of those titles nearly finished for the Dreamcast but never made it to retail, being sent to the Game Graveyards before its time, so this makes it the first time a System Shock title makes it to a console. In glorious 720p and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Gentlemen, I think we’ve got a challenger to F.E.A.R. for most intense gaming experience…

City of Heroes flying on the Xbox 360. NCSoft says “no comment,” but being that Marvel has announced a MMORPG of their own, it would only make sense for a seasoned veteran of the MMORPG to swoop in and fight for gamer’s monthly subscription fees. MMORPGs are a no-brainer on Xbox Live because of the online infrastructure. Too bad we didn’t get any for the Xbox aside from PSO, but that looks like it’s going to change pretty quickly.