{"id":102503,"date":"2016-08-29T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T11:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=102503"},"modified":"2016-08-29T13:59:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T11:59:23","slug":"halo-on-pc-halo-forge-details-system-requirements-and-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/102503-halo-on-pc-halo-forge-details-system-requirements-and-release-date","title":{"rendered":"Halo on PC &#8211; Halo Forge details, system requirements, and release date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halo games and PC gamers have had a long history.<\/p>\n<p>While the first Halo port by Gearbox is considered one of the greatest ever, Microsoft then followed it up with the Vista-only Halo 2.<\/p>\n<p>Since then we&#8217;ve had nothing other than two slightly-above average twin-stick shooters.<\/p>\n<p>With the news that Halo 6 and Halo Wars 2 will be making the jump to Windows 10 however, it looks like PC may be &#8220;the&#8221; place to play the franchise going forward.<\/p>\n<p>It all starts with the release of Halo Forge in a couple of weeks time.<\/p>\n<p>PC gamers looking for a full Halo experience will likely still be dissapointed, as the &#8220;game&#8221; is more a glorified map editor with 16 v 16 multiplayer. That said, it does look to offer the core Halo 5 multiplayer experience to gamers on PC.<\/p>\n<p>The game will release for free on the Windows 10 store on 8 September.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the full system requirements below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimum<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 10 Anniversary Edition<\/li>\n<li>DirectX 12<\/li>\n<li>intel Core i5 at 2.3Ghz or AMD equivalent<\/li>\n<li>GeForce 650 Ti<\/li>\n<li>2GB VRAM<\/li>\n<li>8GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>HDD 40GB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommended<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 10 Anniversary Edition<\/li>\n<li>DirectX 12<\/li>\n<li>intel Core i5-3570k at 3.4GHz or AMD equivalent<\/li>\n<li>GeForce GTX 970<\/li>\n<li>4GB VRAM<\/li>\n<li>8GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>HDD 40GB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ultra (4K)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 10 Anniversary Edition<\/li>\n<li>DirectX 12<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i7-4770k at 3.4GHz or AMD equivalent<\/li>\n<li>GeForce 980 Ti<\/li>\n<li>6GB VRAM<\/li>\n<li>16GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>HDD 40GB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to No Man\u2019s Sky review \u2014 an awe-inspiring journey\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/102235-no-mans-sky-review-an-awe-inspiring-journey.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">No Man\u2019s Sky review \u2014 an awe-inspiring journey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 awesome PC games you didn\u2019t know were coming in 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101880-5-awesome-pc-games-you-didnt-know-were-coming-in-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 awesome PC games you didn\u2019t know were coming in 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Everything you need to know about Xbox Scorpio\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/102190-everything-you-need-to-know-about-xbox-scorpio.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Everything you need to know about Xbox Scorpio<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the rig you will need to play Halo against other PC gamers later next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":102505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4],"tags":[31,7702,307,1807,20182],"class_list":["post-102503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-graphics","tag-halo","tag-online","tag-requirements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102513,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102503\/revisions\/102513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}