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Halo for the PC and Mac

Posted by michael on from the no-xbox-for-you dept.

smelialichu writes "According to this news article, Halo is finally on its way to the PC and Mac. Gearbox is handling the PC version, and Westlak Interactive is working on the Mac version, but it won't be released untill next summer. The official announcement says "Halo for PC is expected to be available in summer 2003. The Macintosh version is also expected to be available in 2003. Additional information regarding game content, features and enhancements will be announced at a later date." We can only assume they have some cool new features up their sleeves, maybe we'll be seeing Halo with even better graphics, optimized for the new Radeon? Anyway, this is certainly a huge relief to many gamers who thought they may never see Halo on their home PC's."

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  1. Bungie=proof that Microsoft is evil by Gizzmonic · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Forget their bad software (which has improved a lot over the years). Forget their strongarm (and illegal) business tactics.

    For people who have been with Bungie since the original marathon, this is totally proof of MS's evil.

    Bungie brought great gaming in the dark days of the Mac...they put twists on the FPS that were later imitated by the big boys at id (such as enemies getting mad at each other).

    As soon as Bungie got acquired by MS, they rushed the terrible Oni out the door (obviously half-finished) and went Xbox only. I might have to buy one of those hideous green beasts (used, of course) just to play that excellent game called Halo.

    On a completely unrelated topic, has anyone noticed that there's something different about the karma? It's now "excellent" on mine instead of a number. Anyone else getting this?

    I hope this isn't permanent...I like to keep my karma around 30 (close to my age :). If it got too high , I would burn it, and it would make me feel younger :).

    Now I'm stuck with "Excellent," which was great on my first-grade conduct report, but seems a bit off for Slashdot. I need the objectivity of numbers!

    What would the Hindus do if their karma wasn't measured in numbers? They'd have no idea if they were being reborn as a flea or a donkey! :)

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    1. Re:Bungie=proof that Microsoft is evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      That so many of you fucktards allow the concept of karma to take up any of your mental activity will never cease to amaze me. Is it a lack of penis size? A lack of communication with the opposite sex?

  2. Re:[klerck] Dear Ask Slashdot by bstadil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Read this article about teenage suicide from CNN today. Maybe spelling is not the main point of this discussion. I know this is WAY off topic but just in case the guy is serious I will blow a few karma points.

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  3. Re:How Sad by donnacha · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The guy posting the article link is from the site it's at? Jesus, that story came out about 2 days ago and this guy is pimping his site with. No dignity.
    Hey, Mr. First Post, we're all whores in informational maelstorm. And, obviously, for two days no-one else picked up on his article, so, correctly assuming that it would be of interest to the /. submissions editors, he submitted it himself. Bully for him and, anyway, it can't be easy going through life with the name Smelialichu. You try it sometime!
  4. HTF is that trolling? by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I had two comments in this thread marked as "Troll". Can anybody explain to me how I could possibly be trolling? I was responding to the comment that PC's hadn't caught up to XBOX standards, pointing out that Halo was running on earlier PC hardware. I'm sorry but I don't see how that's negative in anyway.

    If my tone was negative or anything, somebody let me know? It wasn't intentional.