…Little pieces of white chocolate covered in candy sprinkles and dipped in honey. I can’t complain about anything. Thank you Jesus.

In other news, the miracle of the Internet, XBox Live, and *cough* Microsoft has produced an update for Halo 2.

This update addresses many of the issues that people complained about concerning the game. The highlights include:

• faster load times for Optimatch games
• full widescreen tv support
• fewer map loading errors

Here is the full text of the XBox.com forum post:

What: Today (11/17) Bungie Studios and Xbox Live are releasing a free mandatory auto update for Halo 2 This download is free of charge as part of your Xbox Live membership.*

When: The downloads will be available Wednesday, November 17, 2004

after 3:00pm ET/12:00pm PT. You may have the download available before this time, but everyone will have access to it by the time posted above. If you don’t see the download right away don’t panic. Don’t post that you don’t have it yet. It will show up shortly. Where: This auto update will be available to Xbox Live members in all countries that Xbox Live is sold.

Details on the downloads: This auto update will address the slow matchmaking issues that some members are experiencing. In addition, this auto update provides a fix to the issue where certain Television displays were clipping off the sides of the HUD. Finally, this auto update should decrease the “Failed to load map” errors that some members are experiencing. That is all the information that I have at this time. Thanks for using Xbox Live!

*Additional connect charges from your ISP may be

involved .”

I find this fascinating because for the longest time a console game was thought of as being basically indestructible. No one ever called Super Mario Bros. “buggy.” Can you imagine downloading a patch for Sonic the Hedgehog? It’s a new era now. Console games are becoming so complicated that they will benefit from, and very shortly require, a steady stable network to provide updates.

A natural progression, or convergence?

Filed under Uncategorized.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the comments feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

« A Breath of Fresh Air…   |   Dave Matthews Grass… »