Console

You may sense a recurring theme here. It's not that I think the Playstation platform is a bad one (it's not - apart from the PSP. Having now tried one, they are *utter* rubbish) but the lies, arrogance, and disrespect Sony show their customers is reaching unsustainable proportions.

You give a company hundreds of pounds over the years, investing in their console, their games, their peripherals. You'd think they'd make some sort of effort to give you recurring value? To, you know, keep you as a customer?

The breakup is official: Bungie and Microsoft have parted ways.

Via a press release that's being covered on every gaming site on the planet, as well as the BBC and other mainstream news sites, Bungie is now a privately held company in which Microsoft holds a minority stake.

Bungie will continue to develop Halo related titles for Microsoft, but as I previously mentioned, moving away to become a separate company once more frees Bungie to put all that talent to work for other platforms.

The rumour doing the round this morning is that Bungie and Microsoft are set to part ways. I can see a lot of reasons for both sides of the argument here, which makes it all equally possible.

Having just pushed Halo 3 out the door, Bungie have shown they can deliver a compelling, tight FPS. It may not be the best at any one thing (graphics, play style, weapons, etc.) but the over-all package is a consumate piece of work.

On Thursday the 2nd of August there will be a special console day taking place at theaubergineroom.

For this day only starting at 5pm we'll be having up to 8 play matches of Halo 2, all going on in the centre.

Finally a chance to be able to shout directly at the person who just sniped you from across the map, instead of having to shout it down a headset.

To take part just show up on the night and join in for our usual prices.
For an extra special discount, if you bring along your own Xbox controller you'll get a special rate of £2 per hour.