Steve

This would be fantastic to win. My best buddy on Live would turn green with envy. ;)

The Sounds rule but a cover?

C'mon, how much could it have cost to use the master?

Oh yeah,the rest of the bands suck.

Good for this guy.

This is the same stunt MS tried to pull with the 2006 Fall update that bricked a million consoles (which they still won't fess up to ).

They put a trojan horse in the update to purposely brick modded consoles and I believe Bungie has tried the same thing this time by inplementing something in the software to catch cheaters. Remember the quote from Bungie about their "new technique to stop cheaters"?



Anyone with decent programing knowledge can tell you that it's utterly retarded to try and make a hidden virus to brick hardware when the hardware in question is so varied. You can open up 50 different 360 consoles made from launch until now and find massive variations in the components made from different companies. They constantly switch parts from varied manufacturers based on the current pricing.



That's why the fall update bricked perfectly legit, unmodded consoles and that's why Halo 3 is doing the same thing now by making the system suddenly not be able to recognize discs. I would guess the desired function Bungie and or MS hoped for was for modded 360's to not be able to read the disc but it's obviously the same clusterf#%k result like before..



My 360 (my 3rd thanks to a faulty launch console and the above said fall update) worked like a charm for a year until I played Halo 3. Then 99% of my games simply stopped working. I would sometimes sit and open and close the tray for 15 mins before it would finally boot up a game. It's simple common sense to see that all of the sudden disc read errors taking place and Halo 3 are not a coincedence. Just go read the threads devoted to this issue on xbox.com and bungie.net that have almost 5000 comments.



I'm glad someone made a class action lawsuit and I'd love to see the courts force Bungie and MS to admit they tamper with the 360 hardware in such a way. It's disgraceful to cause such a thing upon your customers.

I must win!!!

That case is super sweet.

This would be perfect right now with the mass of games coming and massive being broke going around.

I am very poor and yet I risk all (job, girlfriend etc) to play.

Please give to the stupid and needy. :)

It's just another FPS.

The 360 version of The Darkness is better than the PS3 version because everything is better on the 360!

Here's to hoping I can finally win an engadget contest. :)