Halo 2 Gone Gold

Yes Master Chief, we haven't forgot about you!

In my quest to build the ultimate PC so I can play Half Life 2 and Doom 3 I almost forgot about another premier title coming out, Halo 2 for the Xbox. It turns out that it went "gold" today which means Bungie completed the game and shipped it to its publisher Microsoft for manufacturing and distribution. Actually Microsoft uses Technicolor for these services and Halo 2 most likely is already in our Premastering department at Camarillo getting worked on. From there is goes to our Mastering area where they create the DVD master which then gets sent to our manufacturing department. Because this is a premier Xbox title where Microsoft can anticipate enormous sales, it most likely will be manufactured at our Guadalajara plant in Mexico where they have the capability of mass producing thousands of DVD's on a daily basis. After that it would get shipped to our distribution hub in Memphis, TN where its finally sent to all the Walmart's, CompUSA's and BestBuy's across the country.

The US release date is November 9th, so we only have less than 30 days before we can get our hands on it. I remember having a blast playing co-op with Rob when he would drive down on the weekends and help me destroy the "flood". I hope he can make it at least a few more times for round two. By the way, I had to check Bungie's RumorBuster web page just to make sure it had co-op.