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Halo 3 In Stores On September 25th

Posted by Zonk on from the bungie-got-me-a-birthday-present dept.

Officially announced on the Bungie website (now with Luke Smith action), Halo 3 will be in stores on September 25th of this year. The multiplayer Beta for the game begins today; if you're looking for some answers they have an extensive online guide available for curious minds. MTV's Stephen Totilo had a chance to have some good chats with the developers, and he points out three things every Beta player should do, as well as a proposal for an unusual alternate scoring system for bad players. GameDaily has just a few more details, including some information on the tie-in Zune device Microsoft is offering to enflame fanboy passions.

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  1. zune tie-in by suv4x4 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I love it when Microsoft pretends to be oblivious to the trends and situation on the market:

    "including some information on the tie-in Zune device Microsoft is offering to enflame fanboy passions"

    The subtle (or maybe not) stupidity of this struck me first when I saw the following list of options on the MIX 2007 video streams:

    Stream live (Silverlight).
    Download (WMV).
    Download for Zune.

    Great, thanks buddies! So although I have the latest ever WMP, the only option I have to stream it live is a crashing beta plugin that has no stable release out there.

    But the funnier thing was the "download for Zune". You see, many sites offer "download for iPod" links. This is because a huge number of people have iPods. I guess in Microsoft-land, what matters is artificially push your product in tie-ins and integrating it in your sites, in the hope someone buys a Zune just to watch the MIX 2007 streams on the go.

    The only thing they've proven so far, is Zune can't stand on its own.