There's a very high probability that it will be the "biggest" exclusive this year in terms of sales, and I wouldn't put it past Halo to out-do another "me too!" Call of Duty game.

In terms of awesomeness it's easily going to be the best console game of the year too!

There's a very high probability that it will be the "biggest" exclusive this year in terms of sales, and I wouldn't put it past Halo to out-do another "me too!" Call of Duty game.

In terms of awesomeness it's easily going to be the best console game of the year too!

It doesn't take a huge fan to see that Halo has the competition beat in just about every way sans graphics.

In terms of content and features, maybe nothing. I do think that games like Call of Duty and Battlefield play much better on the PC than their console counterparts though, and I greatly prefer KB+M controls too. It's not to say that there are better games, but rather games I might end up enjoying more because of the limitations put on console games. So while I enjoy Halo (a lot!), and I appreciate how well adapted it is for the platform it's on, I still might have more fun with some PC games in other ways. That is all.

It doesn't take a huge fan to see that Halo has the competition beat in just about every way sans graphics.

Well, that's sorta what I was implying by saying "the competition," but for my tastes it's pretty much a universal statement since it's one of my favorite genres anyway.

Maybe the wrong word, since it technically means "without," but I mean in every way except its visuals.

I think people underestimate how well SC2 is going to sell.

Is it so shocking that I love FPS?

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of madness because we’re bringing this giant game in for a landing. I won’t lie, there’s been some turbulence and some areas of the game are coming in hot, but we’ve got the landing gear down, the runway is visible, and the engines are throttling back.

In the midst of this 24/7 period of crunch for the game, we are heading for ZBR (zero bug release). We have a huge team of testers who are hammering on the game in every way possible and logging tons of bugs about things that are broken, look bad or finding exploits that make the game just plain silly. Then, the development team is tasked with triaging all of these bugs every day and determining which ones are things we must fix and how we should prioritize them over other bugs. The goal is that our fix rate for bugs is higher than the incoming rate, so we can crush all these nasty critters by ZBR. It’s tough work, but ultimately this kind of diligence on our part means that you all get to have a better gameplay experience when you have it in your hands this Fall.

That said, we are still having fun with last minute “fixes” (which some could argue are really new features – shhh, don’t tell Harold, our CEO). For instance, I just came in today and met with our campaign design lead, Chris Opdahl, and he showed me something he and the engineers cooked up yesterday with vehicles vs. biped physics that I’ve been begging to see happen since I started Halo1 back in late 90s. I won’t spoil the fun by telling you what it is, but needless to say, it will make you a very happy player to finally see this.

Depends what you mean by sales. In Asia, where this game will sell like hot cakes people don't typically buy the game in the traditional sense. Usually they buy pre-paid time cards from Internet cafes. Whilst in Korea things will be fine, the Chinese authorities will likely make sure that Starcraft 2 doesn't come out over there this year anyway.

Halo: Reach could possibly sell 10m this year if the marketing is right. Halo 3 did 8.1m