All it is, is publishers following the mantra "Money now is worth more then money later." just now they "sensitives you with $5 off.

This. Basically the mentality is find someone in college and you get married after you graduate (maybe not immediately but with the year after you graduate).

A 2143 would be pretty high on my things I hope comes out. Alas I thin EA has Battlefront 3 lined up and then we might see a 2143.

To see the Steam logo on the end of the trailer for The Master Chief Collection. If I see that my week is made and I will throw my money at Steam

I am running on an i3 and I will sacrifice graphics for performance (I'd rather the game run smoothly then it look pretty).

Depends on your home network but the best thing to do is make sure you are using Ethernet cables. I noticed a little lag on start up of my game but when it the game got to the main menu, smooth sailing.

For me it was a tad slow on the upstart and fine when it finished "buffering". I was more just blown away that I was playing some non mac games on my mac. (Also I had an Ethernet cable hooked up)

Halo is M- Rated, Lord of the Rings is PG-13 (Now lets be real, Halo is a softball M, it just has been M since the first Halo was rated M.)

So what about the AMD drivers for Halo 3, the Steam slots for Halo 1, 2 and 3, what about Certain Affinity pleading the 5th (http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2…) and Microsoft hiring people to bring existing IP to Windows 8.

They aren't brain dead. If they are going to bring Halo to PC they are going to use it in a way…

No but 343i is. They probably aren't making Halo 4 or 5 (yet) but I bet Halo 1-3 Anniversary will see a Steam release.

Well I mean, there is no point in porting Halo 4 if you never ported Halo 3

Honestly I do not know. I just have heard a lot of developers cite the Power PC architecture as the source to one of the big reasons porting games from consoles to PC was a challenge

My bet is that is some news they are hiding till E3 to point the spotlight on Microsoft.

Yes it is. ODST had a superb narrative along with Reach.

Pssssst Steam can host it, and the community can take care of it.

I think that a beta would encourage communication between a developer and the community.

People like figuring things out, even when there is nothing there

My guess? New version of a Numbers Station

They fucked up by not having a beta. Halo Betas are important for hype building and backend work

I bet 3 is going to be the toughest. 3 was made for the Power PC processor which means a LOT of back end work. Honestly the move to Power PC was one of the major factors Halo 3 never went to PC