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Halo's Price Drop For Xbox, GameSpy Hookup For PC

Posted by simoniker on from the not-quite-metal-shiny dept.

Thanks to GamerFeed for the news that Bungie's Xbox FPS, Halo, has dropped in price to $29.99 effective immediately, but "is not a Platinum Hit", one of the many fruitless rumors which started after a fan-made 'TV commercial' and subsequent confusion had sites falsely reporting on Halo 2's early release. Meanwhile, GameSpy has announced a partnership with Microsoft to provide "online matchmaking, community, administrative and networking functionalities" for Microsoft's PC games over multiple years, including the just-released Windows version of Halo.

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  1. hey, that's great news! by Malor · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Everyone knows partnering with Microsoft is suicide. It's great to see Gamespy getting into bed with them. I was soooo pissed when I paid for the client they were using last year, based on how much I'd liked the client several years ago... what a steaming pile of excrement that turned out to be. I don't usually say this sort of thing about companies, but Gamespy deserves everything Microsoft will give them.

    BTW, if you're one of the two or three remaining people who hasn't already switched, check out the All Seeing Eye from UDPSoft. It's constantly updated with new games and is just generally excellent. It does exactly what it's supposed to do without all the bloatware useless crap that Gamespy shoves down your throat.

  2. Another MS "Technology" Craters -- Quelle Surprise by ewhac · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Assuming I'm reading the press release correctly, it looks as if Micros~1 has finally admitted that DirectPlay was a complete and utter disaster, never worked right, and never was going to work right.

    ...So expect GameSpy 3D to get renamed DirectPlay 2,0 and get released in Longhorn.

    Schwab

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  3. Re:Here come the gripes by DeadScreenSky · · Score: 2, Interesting

    AFAIK, xBox runs directx... pcs use directx... hmmm... how long did that port take...
    Contrary to popular PC gamer opinion, the Xbox is not simply a PC. It is very very good at certain things like Pixel Shaders and various memory bandwidth, and it took a long time to get it optimized for the less adept PC.

    Cannot find the quote unfortunately, but Gearbox stated basically just this recently.

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