Halo 3 killed my 360

Ok, maybe the title is a little misleading but it still sucks no matter how you look at it.

Halo 3 came out earlier this week. I had a pre-order from dell.ca but was out late Monday night and decided to get in line at my local BestBuy to grab a copy of Halo 3. I got home around 1am, tried the game out for a good 20 minutes and hit the sack.

The next day I boot up Halo 3 to give it a good run and it freezes. Reboot and try again. Another freeze. Third time, the famous 3 Red Rings Of Death. Could the timing have been any worse? "20 minutes into Halo 3? You have got to be shitting me" is all I could think. Well, no joke the xbox died.

It's my 2nd Xbox death, last one was only 5 months ago. Called to order the coffin from Xbox Support. They say turn-around time is expected to be 3-4 weeks!

So here's where I feel dirty and disgusted, but I had to do it. I called around town and managed to find a store still selling Core machines, so I bought one. I contemplated keeping it until my main one was fixed and then returning it but you know, my Xbox WILL die again so this one will become my backup console.

In all my gaming days I never thought I'd be buying a BACKUP console.

ok, I guess I have to go "Finish The Fight"

Bucketo