An Ultimate Extra Released...Wait What Was That Again?

The "exclusive" extras to the owners of Window Vista Ultimate, have emerged yet again after a long, long hibernation. Today, Microsoft released an "Ultimate Extra" for the owners of Vista Ultimate, which is hardly an extra at all. If you call a resource hungry task running in the background, although it may be beautiful, an extra then your senses might appeal to Dreamscene. This extra, which was supposed to be released at the latest by the end of the summer was released today. A deadline which was not met because the development of the extras was somewhat delayed for some obscure reason. If these "extras", are an exclusive to Ultimate owners, I would expect better from Microsoft. As many of you know I am a Microsoft fanboy, but this issue just ticks me off a bit. Premium customers should be treated as so, and not left in the dust. If you would like more information about the development of these "extras" follow the link at the bottom of the post. I do apologize about the rashness of this post, but this just gets on my last nerve.

[Via WindowsUltimate.com]

Halo 3 in Full Throttle

Last night, at 12:01 the much anticipated Halo 3 was released. This third chapter to the Halo series ends the Halo trilogy, leaving many quite satisfied. The guys over at C|NET's Gamespot have given the game an in depth review, and as to be expected the game got an excellent review of 9.5. Some of the things that the guys at Gamespot liked about the game were:

• Satisfying storyline that simultaneously provides closure while making you wonder what will happen next
• Four-player online co-op is a lot of fun
• Forge mode map editor lets you do some extremely crazy and unexpected things
• Web integration makes sharing new maps and custom modes easy.
  

[Via Gamespot]