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Commander Zax tapped away at his fighters controls. It had been weeks since he got a chance to test his flight abilities again...he had been aching to fly once more, and a series of asteroids gave him a great chance to test his abilities. His fighter, a customised X012 Starstreamer was the best fighter available for military units...very powerful,very fast and requiring the best of pilots to use. Zax pulled out the Control stick and started up the thrusters. The Starscream glided over the hover rails and built up speed before it exited the ships fighter hanger, taking off into deep space. Zax took the control stick and pulled up, the star scream turning quickly and pointing up. The thrusters were turned off and afterburners were activating taking the starscream off towards the asteroids at high speed. "This is commander Zax...im entering the asteroid field in Approximately 5 mintues"

Lately a rumor has popped up about Halo coming to Steam...Microsoft has announced that this is not happening. The folowing is from an article on Kotaku.com Source This weekend, many noticed something curious: some Halo titles were listed in the Steam registry. Some assumed this meant that these titles were coming to Steam. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, that’s not the case. “We currently do not have plans to release any ‘Halo‘ titles on Steam,” said a Microsoft spokesperson to Kotaku. Sceptical? I wouldn’t blame you. When folks say there aren’t any plans, it sometimes actually means “not yet.” It’s worth noting that, unlike other titles which have now been confirmed — like Dyad — Halo 2 and Halo 3 pages were almost immediately taken down and can no longer be accessed. Maybe that means something. Maybe not.

The Following is From an Article on Geek.com Source With news that Sony may be officially revealing the next Playstation in a little over two weeks at a February 20 event, it would behoove Microsoft to make sure Sony doesn’t totally dominate the news cycle. And what better way to do that than release some information on the next Xbox? Whether or not Microsoft has actually leaked Xbox 720 specs, some official-looking Xbox 720 GPU specs have surfaces and been and published for the world to see. VGLeaks notes that the reportedly leaked specs represent the hardware unencumbered by running actual code, so performance can’t quite be judged on the hardware specs alone. However, we would like to note that the following specs cannot be considered official until Microsoft announces if they are or aren’t. Out of the very detailed specs contained in the report, the more notable ones claim that the GPU, codenamed Durango, has a clock rate of 800MHz, which lines up with a previous rumor regarding one of the Xbox 720's SoCs. The GPU is said to sport 12 shader cores, each of which contains 64KB of local shared memory and a 64-way L1 cache of 16KB, and the GPU will also contain 64KB of global shared memory. The shader core will contain 4 SIMDs, which will employ an instruction set that helps the shaders preserve processing power when operating on a smaller number of components at a time. The GPU will have a run capability of 1.2Tflops, which also lines up with one of the previous rumors. The peak throughput from the main RAM is said to be 68GB/s, while the throughput from the 32MB ESRAM is said to be 102.4GB/s. Compared to the Xbox 360′s EDRAM, the ESRAM is capable of texturing, and rendering to surfaces in the main RAM, among other tasks. The Durango GPU will reportedly be capable of 2x, 4x, and 8x multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA), as well as a modified type of MSAA, compressed AA. Essentially, compressed AA combines the benefits of both high MSAA and the lesser space requirements of lower MSAA. If the leak turns out to be spot on, a couple areas that will surely get a rise from hardware-focused fans will be the 1.2Tflops (compared to the PlayStation 4′s rumored 1.8Tflops) and lack of VRAM (which the ESRAM would help alleviate). Keep in mind, though, that the specs — which you can view in their entirety ovr on VGleaks — aren’t necessarily accurate at all, and should be taken with a grain of salt until Microsoft announces them itself.

The Following is taken from an article on Ausgamers.com Source Perhaps the next Gen consoles are closer then they appear? It has been long speculated by industry analysts and punters alike, but several credible publications are now corroborating word from reported insiders that both the Sony's next PlayStation console, and Microsoft's next Xbox are due to arrive this holiday season. The Wall Street Journal purports to have it on good authority that Sony's February 20th "PlayStation Meeting" event in Manhattan will indeed be the big reveal of their new device, currently codenamed PlayStation Orbis, and Polygon outlines reported plans for Microsoft's big Xbox reveal "this Spring" (Autumn for us South-landers, and a window that aligns with the April rumours we've previously heard), with both new consoles expected to have a wider showing at the E3 2013 event in June. Of course, this is all intel pertaining to a North American debut, and console launches in other regions, from both manufactures have typically trailed in the past. So while it's now looking pretty certain that Santa will have a lot of new PlayStation and Xbox consoles for American boys and girls for Christmas 2013, we probably won't know for a while if Australians will be waiting until the new year. Finally, a separate report over on Edge claims to have some new details on the next PlayStation's controller, describing a unit "the same size as an existing DualShock", but with a touchpad in the centre that uses the same tech as the PS Vita's rear pad, and a new share button for distributing images and videos recorded on the system, alleging that "The PS4 hardware will continually record the most recent 15 minutes of onscreen action".

"Not really, I tend to focus on thing's that keep me Busy. If i think too far ahead i usually lose track of what's important right here and right now" The Commander sat back at his chair and began running through reports on his datatpad

Very well done Mackenzie..I wonder who is voicing Kai

"Well...so far we have colonised another 5 planets , all seem's to be going well. We just need to send garrisons to those planets incase anyone gets any ideas. Also we have several bits of Forerunner Data you can have that were found floating in space....adn uh...a monitor..not sure about its name, but they are all in teh aft hanger"

"Oh....that?....Give it a moment" The soldiers rebreathers kicked into action just as they started suffocating, several soldier got light headed, but all were fine "Yeah we have rebreathers built into the helmets, plus the scientists have to wear Rebreathers whenever out of ship, i cant exactly risk their lives"

"We planned on using them to increase the functionality of our environmental systems, so we can get larger groups of colonists out to colony planets. And we were looking through data files for good planets to colonise. We're studying the weapons to increase weapon power for defence purposes. That's it for the moment"

"Of course, If you see fit. Although if any of your people..ah..A.I's would like to enter any of our ships they need to ask permission first..for security reasons.Other then that, I dont see why they cant"

"Thats what my primary mission is....so yes, Id be glad to form an alliance with you..whoever you are..." The Commander stood up and walked to the edge of the table and took the datapad back and placed it in his pouch

"Obviously i can't give you ALL the information from my people, as i dont have it all, however...I can agree to giving you the info about the forerunners that My fleet has retrieved" "This is Commander Zax, move all information pods containing info about the Forerunner artifacts to the Aft Hanger, move the artifacts themselves there to , for retrieval by our guests" Commander shouted over the Comm Speaker "There you are my floating light bulb of a friend...however...Precursor tech is free for my people to research, we cant go back empty handed"

"Not bad....How is Artificial Life?" The Commander Joked back before sitting into his chair and tossing a datapad across to Nova's side of the table, containing maps made by the research teams... "How about this, you can leave one of your sentinals on hand to watch over the site, even though my researchers are more then capable of handling such technology"