Jamie Skella

Can't wait for this! Since I sold my 360 I've missed Texas Holdem on XBLA...

I'm using Nero Media Home on my PC, streaming music, images and even XviD movies to my PS3 without hickup. Brilliant.

I wasn't talking about the RTS for PC/Mac, I was talking about the original Halo (as you know it) being developed for the PC/Mac. The first person shooter.

I used to work for Gamespy's Halo Planet (previously Battleground Halo), and it was looking revolutionary back then. As soon as they ported to the Xbox and stopped development for PC & Mac it suddenly loooked dumbed-down and ended up having nothing except it's story line. The gorgeous graphics, the new ideas... gone.

They wanted to implement ideas such as near-massively-multiplayer worlds for online play, seamless loading of new areas (no load screens) etc... but none of this ever saw the light of day after Microsoft bought them.

It's a shame it all went so pear shaped really. Sure, Halo is considered the best console shooter ever, but put along side PC shooters like Half-Life 2, Quake 2 etc, it just wasn't anything special.

I had little faith in Halo 3 before this, and now that hope is entirely demolished. I didn't like the first two, and this seems like more of the same crap.

Bring back the Halo they were developing for the Mac and PC all those years ago, before Microsoft bought Bungie. Now that sh*t was cool!

I had already pre-ordered mine from www.divineo.cn. They contacted me yesterday to let me know that it had been shipped!

I'll be posting a brief review and impressions write-up on my blog when it arrives.