No more of that crappy version for PC and Mac users. We’ll finally be able to play the real thing! Aspyr were the ones that finally worked out the deal with Activision. Best of all, you’ll be able to take the game wherever you go as long as you have a decent laptop. And on top of all of that, Mac users will be able to face off again PC users. The PC/Mac wars are back.

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Microsoft is going to give everyone a free Gold subscription for Xbox Live the three days following Halo 3’s midnight launch (sept. 25-27). Great idea by Microsoft considering that a lot of people will end up buying the service once they play Halo 3’s multiplayer.

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A live action short titles “Museum” and the full version of Halo 3’s “Believe” commercial will bebut exclusively at Yahoo! Games. Be sure to check it out here.

Launch schedule:
Wed 9/12, 9AM P.T.: “Museum” Video
Fri 9/14, 9AM P.T.: “Believe” Video

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You can download the playable demo here. Be sure to use the second link. The other links ask for User and Password.

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Nintendo is offering a free Wiimote Wrist Strap upgrade for everyone that bought the Wii before they started to ship them with better straps. You can order your own here. I ordered four a while back and they finally came in last week. You’ll have to see the pictures to believe how stronger the new ones are.

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A 360! I was going to get Gears of War, but they didn’t have it so I settled for COD3. It turns out that the 360 controller is a tad bit more sensitive than the normal Xbox controller, so I still suck at playing FPS games on it, and COD3’s checkpoint system doesn’t help either. I think I’ve played the same 15 minutes over and over again for at least an hour.

Anyways, the 360 turned out to be a pretty cool system. I have it synced with Media Center on my laptop so I can listen to music while I’m playing. The only problem I had with this was that I couldn’t let my laptop go wireless. I had to connect it to the router with a wire and that was sort of a let down. But one cool thing about the 360 was its marketplace. You can start downloads, go play some game, and the downloads will continue on in the background. Then, once its finished, you’ll get a little pop up that tells you its done. I know it doesn’t really sound all that cool, but its something that the PS3 lacks. On the PS3, once you start a download, you have to let it sit at the download screen. I’m sure Sony will fix it later on in a firmware update, but for now its another reason why the system I own is better.

The only thing that REALLY sucks about the 360 is that I suck at Halo on the 360. I bet Roby could beat me. I guess Xbox games need to stay on the Xbox.

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Here are a few pictures of our Miis on the Wii. Samuel has the best face.

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“They come in randomly.”

That was the only answer we would get when we called stores like Target and Best Buy to ask when their next shipment of Wiis was coming in. We (Samuel, Roby and I) called Best Buy three times, and each time the guy would say “I don’t know.” I even tried talking in my Indian accent, but the dude hung up on me. Luckily, teh internets told me that Toys R’ Us and Circuit City would be getting a shipment on Sunday so we called them and they actually told us that they had Wiis! In the end, Roby and I decided to camp out in front of Circuit City because Toys R’ Us is a money making whore and only sells $500 “Wii Bundles” that came with crappy games.

To make a long story short: we camped out in Roby weather (freezing cold) for three hours, saw some white guy use his white guy power to make someone that had only been in the line for an hour give up her ticket to someone else who had probably only been in line for an hour, and most importantly, we got our Wii.

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