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A grunt with a GRAVITY HAMMER!

teh Brute with teh gravity hammer.

The Master Chief - that would be a beatdown.

X3F is the Shizzle! You rock like a petrified forest.

Yay Engadget.

Bioshock! (the demo)

I spoke with Chris Early about this at the speed dating session on Thursday. He assured me that the vision is still very much in place, but it will take time to roll it out. Getting the architecture in place for GFW Live was the first step, getting a good lineup of Live-enabled games is the next (which we'll see in the fall). Who knows, will we see mobile in '08? Live dashboard launch from the desktop? He wouldn't commit on a timetable but said they are moving as quickly as possible.

If you recall, last year at E3, Chris Early was leading one of the press breakout sessions about Live for mobile devices. Last week, I only had 4 minutes to discuss it but it was clear to me that he's focused on achieving the goal.

Weird that the community seems to rave about this game (the people who played it, that is) but the reviewers don't like it.

Maybe the demo is the only way to find out who's right and who's wrong?

Ok, by that logic, Ehrenberg's logic, I wouldn't have purchased Xbox1 "because" of Halo:CE. But wait... that's exactly why I purchased the Xbox.

Ok ok, let's try this on for size. By Ehrenberg's logic, I wouldn't have subscribed to Xbox Live because of Halo2. Oh, crap. I got my live subscription 1 day prior to the Halo2 release, and I purchased Halo2 at a midnight madness event.

Ok, ok, so by Ehrenberg's logic, I am NOT eagerly anticipating Halo3... and it's NOT going to make me buy a 360. Well, that's only partially correct. I already own a 360... but when Halo3 comes out, I plan to purchase the Elite and an HDTV with HDMI. Crap. What was his argument again?

So... instead, let's talk about the impact that GTA is "not" going to have on the Xbox 360... I'm sure that would be equally illuminating.

It's a beta. You'll never see final graphics in a beta. They do all sorts of things like scale the textures down, reduce polygons, leave out effects.

Heck, I'm pretty happy with brute spiker vfx, but that's just me.

We saw the same thing with the Shadowrun beta. As a matter of fact, people still think that videos from the Shadowrun beta represent the final game, but they don't.

Around September, let's compare the final release of Halo 3 to the final release of Halo 2 and revisit this question...