As a games retailer myself, nothing makes my blood boil more than street date breakers, so you can imagine my combined shock and disbelief at the news that UK catalogue chain Argos had started selling copies of Microsoft's flagship title, Halo 3 a whole WEEK prior to the concurent global release!

Yes folks, at 2pm today the retail world was shaken by news that Argos has alreadystarted selling Halo 3. Users of Eurogamer.net have been merrily posting photos of both reciepts and copies of the long awaited finale to the series.

As of now, neither Microsoft nor Argos have released a statement on the situation which is likely due to staff error than any calculated street break by the chain, however the Halo 3 standard SKU does appear to have been removed from the online webstore where users are now greeted with a message stating 'Catalogue number not found'.

Microsoft's big hope for Q4 has already set global pre-order records and is expected to be one of the top 10 best selling games of all time on launch, which incidentally is due to be September 26th in the UK.