"Due to the exceedingly high number of pre-orders we have taken so far,
our systems may incorrectly indicate a ship date for your order far
out in the future.

We wanted to reassure you that your order is being processed, and our
fulfillment centers and carriers are working to ensure that your order
is delivered as close as possible to the release date (January 16th).
We hope you enjoy your order!"

Yuck!

I recently launched a new version of the Hushed Casket website (http://hushedcasket.com). The Hushed Casket is my local gaming community. We were once hosted on a section of Bungie.net. We needed more features than was offered at B.net, so we bounced to a shared server and our own software.

We ran SMF (Simple Machines Forum) for over a year. I recommend that forum over ANY forum software out there. However, the community was long overdue for more Web 2.0 features. So, I ported the SMF database over to Drupal (a system I've used for over 4 years) and it is rocking. I ported over all users and all of their content (except for a few private messages).

Xbox 360s are aware of the world. EA has one that can blog... so can yours...

Welcome to 2007. Looking forward to Halo 2 for Vista and the Halo 3 beta and final release. Looking forward to several patches for Gears of War. Forza 2 and Fable 2 had better come soon. After playing Guitar Hero II on a PS2 for a while this weekend, I'm looking for it's 360 release also.