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Halo available today for Macintosh

Regular readers will recall that my "expertise" with video gaming begins with Snood and ends with Burning Monkey Solitaire. In other words, if a game has a time limit, or if there are enemies trying to kill me, I'm more or less assumed dead before the game even starts. That having been said, I do happen to have a friend or two with an X-Box or two, and even though allowing me to play usually requires teaming me up with someone who can kick enough butt to make up for the extent to which I'll be kicking my own butt, they do occasionally let me play. Sometimes, I find out afterward that the controller they handed me wasn't actually hooked up to anything, which was fitting considering I never really did figure out which of the four on-screen characters I was, or why it took five of us to control four characters in the first place. I thought maybe I was controlling some other aspect of the game...maybe passing out water bottles to the other characters.

I'm not saying that it doesn't hurt my feelings whenever I find out that my buddy slipped me a disconnected controller while trusting the live one to his three year old son, I'm just saying that I'd probably do the same in his position. So when I say that "I've played Halo," I mean it in the same sense that the guys from NSYNC have played musical instruments: not knowing what in the world I'm doing, but having a whole lot of fun in the process.

Halo is an excellent-looking game loaded with all kinds of cool action and excitement. Unless you're as terminally malcoordinated with a game controller as I am (highly improbable, trust me), you'd probably enjoy playing Halo on your Macintosh. And guess what? Today, the good folks at MacSoft just happened to be kind enough to release, you guessed it, Halo for Macintosh.

While I'll be sitting this one out, based on the gobs of enjoyment that my buddies get out of this game (not to mention the three year old kid), you might want to go gobble up Halo in time to give it to your favorite Mac user for the holidays...or just keep it for yourself. Amazon is offering up Halo at a ten percent discount, so you might want to go snap it up by clicking here:

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