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Just correction on that - I didn't start the Blackout Monday idea, the credit belongs in large part to dozens of people within GameSpot, it was started about two days ago in the large Off-Topic Forum of GameSpotr related to Jeff Gerstmann's termination. According to comments I've received from moderation on the site, traffic is down to about 7,000 people on the site in the morning from the usual 10,000 ~ 12,000 people viewing. Whether that's due to Blackout Monday is questionable at best, but a few hundred people showing solidarity is meaningful to the group.

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In any case, this is only an action to show solidarity - the effect of any long term boycott would be one in which the writers and other innocent employees might lose their jobs. Our next step is to create a letter campaign, and the public protests outside GameSpot scheduled for December 8th - 10th. Several others have suggested efforts to devalue advertising space, though the community at large is concerned about the writers currently working for GameSpot - the last thing we'd want is more people we admire to lose their jobs, unless the other editors feel they cannot continue working at GS.

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As far as it just being a rumor, there have been confirmations from GameSpot editors, (at least, I've personally received some messages to that, though obviously I have no means of confirming if the editors in question are aware of the whole situation). CNET will be giving an unsatisfactory statement tomorrow on the issue, though I suspect we'll see more frustration at the situation, and be left with more questions than answers.

That's fantastic and all that, but the response time is a highly inflated measure, and ideal times are not real world times. For example, there are high-end S-IPS panels with 8ms response times and almost no ghosting, compared to supposedly 2ms TN panels, which are suppose to be faster, yet still ghost.

The difference between 60hz and 120hz? How likely is it your videocard is going to be breaking 60fps in any modern game at a decent resolution? You trade what you want, but if you've got the thousands to maintain a machine like that, why are you looking at Acer monitors?

Don't be silly - there's no real "Beta" with Halo 3. What they're calling a Beta is nothing more than a server load test and publicity stunt that will be done a month or so before the games comes out. Don't be surprised if this "Beta" only last three days.

As far as not having it sooner - people have already stated the reason. The moment they have the Beta the web is going to be full of YouTube movies, screenshots, et cetera - they're not going to show the game until something impressive is there to show.