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I'll keep an eye out, but I don't remember seeing HaloPC for much less than the usual $20. Wal-Mart still has it on-shelf; over 3 years straight. Gotta be a record; and I've a feeling that Halo PC will be bundled on DVD with H2V so it may well continue unless Xmas brings a brief hiatus... List for Mac is still $30 AFAIK, so much better than Amazon's price seems unlikely short of eBay or a garage sale. GoGamer, $29.90 (just checked)...

I guess this is inevitable (PC gone? Can't remember if you've mentioned), but the timing seems ironic, given the possibly terminal decline of native AAA OSX gaming... in any case, check out IMG's "Hands On with the Halo Universal Binary" (author is forum friend Quicksilver- doesn't know quite as much Halo as a rare few [*koff*] ), but no dummy either:

Macsoft does have several problems that do not exist in Halo 1.5.2 and therefore need fixing. First and foremost, in my journey through the single-player campaign on my heavily upgraded G5, I noticed problems ranging from Elites stuck with their heads in walls to bizarre audio artifacts. While I can shrug those issues off, having an older version of Halo to fall back on, Intel users will be far less pleased. Worse, I found that if you can click the mouse faster than your weapon can fire, the gun will occasionally continue to fire until it reaches the number of times you clicked. To put this in more practical terms, if you pull the trigger ten times, and in that interval, the Covenant Plasma Pistol only fires five shots, the gun should quit firing on the fifth shot. In Halo 2.0, the pistol will occasionally fire five more times without any user intervention. The negative consequences for multiplayer lovers should be obvious.

MacBook? Pro pleeeeez... the UB apparently still isn't up to PC spec on graphics, but you need the dedicated graphics chip to get even those shaders. (Levi, LAN party soon so Icks can bring Mac Halo for me to eyeball carefully at last). At least the 360 is there for the AAA stuff, albeit pricier than PC (Mac games always cost more & for longer, too, as you know). Hope to see you on GoW soon too, tho I'll at least tool around MA3 again as soon as that demonically-delayed upgrade is done. Last PC gaming I did was UT2004, back around Feb.

Got a feeling I'm forgetting something, may post again later.

I am, tho, having fun imagining you firing many random pistolo shots in all directions. (Or the SPNKr, or FRG... )

Kirtana might be less pleased, tho. Rampancy ensueth?

(Unintentional rocket-jumping is teh best. Waaah! )

Yeah, jumped into co op with Icky a week or so back in GoW.  And Icks, judging from your avatar, you heard that Portals will be released for 360 as well?

Eventually it is, yeah.  What with the push-backs on Episode 2, it won't be any time soon, but yeah, the HL2 pack that's reportedly coming to 360 will include the content from Episode 1 & 2, which means it should include Portals.