By - Sign up for Halo Insider for a chance to test out games ahead of release
- There's a bit of a raffle element involved
- Still, you're in with a shout
Good news, PC gamers. Until now, in lieu of actually playing Halo: The Master Chief Collection, you had to content yourself with looking down your nose at console players as part-timers and philistines who don't understand the satisfaction that comes with slapping the top of your desktop and casually mentioning you've got an Nvidia GeForce graphics card under the bonnet.
That's about to change though. Halo: The Master Chief Collection is coming to the Microsoft Store and Steam later this year, but if you sign up for the Halo Insider programme you can test out the games ahead of release - that's the PC port of the original Halo trilogy, plus Halo: Reach and the single-player campaign of Halo 3: ODST.
Microsoft's official portal to the Halo Insider puts it thusly: "As a Halo Insider, you’ll have the opportunity to regularly provide feedback and insights that help shape and inform current franchise initiatives and the future of Halo. You will also be given exclusive opportunities to participate in public flights of in-progress Halo game releases and provide feedback to the development teams."
Microsoft Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Xbox One)
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So that's quite good. A few catches: you'll have to sign a confidentiality agreement as well as filling in a form about yourself and the Halo franchise - presumably to get a decent spread of gamers from casual first-timers to hardcore session-heads - before waiting to see if you've been given the nod. Still - good luck.
