I highly doubt this, because it means ATi's "Get in the game" program with Half Life 2 is a flop. And a lot of people purchased 9800XTs and 9600XTs simply for that reason, to get a free copy of HL2. It would just piss too many people off. In addition to that, think about a stripped geforce3 (XboX's gfx) running something that uses a lot of pixel shaders, unless the engine is completely rewritten. Anyway, I would not worry that much about it, prolly just another hoax.

The game is console-exclusive to the Xbox only, meaning that the PS2 and GameCube will not be getting HL2 or Doom 3. It has nothing to do with the PC, those games are first and foremost coming to the PC.

lol and thats why there was an Doom3 alpha for PC lol

Of a likely hood that M$ could of bought the rights to these two games... I feel certain though that not in a million years neither id nor valve would sell out like that, even when you consider the deep pockets M$ has.

If this is true, I'm gonna be making some headlines....

cough * halo * cough