Crack Gone Gold

Don't you love some good news on a Friday? Microsoft announced today that Crackdown has gone gold. This means the game is done and is ready to go into production.

In their press release, Microsoft cited the larger number of pre-orders for Crackdown, in part because the game will kick about 12 different kinds of ass, but mostly because of the Halo 3 beta keys included in marked copies of Crackdown. Since I am a Canadian resident, I am pretty much SOL for getting a Halo 3 key and will have to settle with playing the latest sandbox masterpiece as consolation prize.

Yeah, life is tough.

Crackdown is still scheduled to hit store shelves on February 20th. The delayed demo is expected to drop sometime before the end of January.