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Halo’s Gone Gold
“Halo 3 for Xbox 360 has gone Gold! That means we delivered a final version to our internal certification group that passed all the tests and is now being whisked away to top secret manufacturing locations to be turned into retail versions of the game – and eventually packaged and sent to stores in various cases, tins and cat-helmets. We can’t wait to share it with you guys on September 25th and 26th, but we have to say thanks.

We have to say thanks to everyone at Bungie who worked so hard to make this the best game we’ve ever made. We have to say thanks to everyone at Microsoft who helped us make it the best game we ever made. We have to say thanks to our tireless team of artists, designers, engineers, musicians, technicians, writers, directors, producers, thinkers, administrators, ninjas, specialists, gorillas, webmasters and pimps. We’re a family and we made this game for you, our extended family. We hope you like it. Nobody deserves any more recognition than anyone else, but an extra special thanks goes out anyway, to the test team who got it to this stage, in a pool of their own sweat, tears and blood.

And of course, we wouldn’t be here today without the tireless devotion of our fan community – we thank you all as well for supporting Bungie Studios in our never ending quest for World Domination and we look forward to sharing another billion+ hours together on Xbox Live when Halo 3 lands in just a few short weeks. The wait is almost over.

We Finished our Fight. Your fight begins in 27 days.

Are you ready? ”

All signs point to the 360, saying “buy me, buy me, buy me”

Article from TheThinkingBlog. I’ve experienced a lot of spam as well, and this article caught my attention.

 Delivery Failed: New Form of Spam

“Microsoft is working on the problem, and is telling users who are affect that they should “try again” later, with some support techs telling readers that Microsoft is aiming to have a fix in place by Monday, August 28th.”

Nice read. The gist of it is that Microsoft does this WGA thing because it’s trying to evaluate its software to see if it’s genuine or not. If proven otherwise, Microsoft basically pulls the plug on the software from accessing the Internet updates at Windows Update and etc. There have been many bypasses to this, but this does not concern those who bypass it. This concerns honest people, people who have paid hundreds of dollars for their version of Windows to come pre-installed on a shiny, new PC.

“Update: Word from Microsoft is that this problem has been fixed, and all users affected should revisit the WGA site and re-validate. There’s no explanation as to why Microsoft was originally telling people to wait until Tuesday, but the good news is that the problem has been solved.” – Ars Technica

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“It’s high noon, Apple and AT&T — we really hate to break it to you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone with a small piece of software. It’s all over, guys.”

All I have to say is…HA HA HA HA HA!

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