Half Life2 on XPe!!

 This is cool - Taito is shipping an arcade version of the PC game Half Life 2 running on XPe. HL2 is a First Person Shooter, this arcade version will feature three modes- a single-player, a multiplayer mode for networked games with other players in Japan, and a Mission Mode that may be something like a 'Collaborative Mode' with networked players teaming up to complete missions together. 

Here are the system specs listed by Taito. The base Type X system consists of a 2.5GHz Celeron processor, an Intel 865G chipset and a 128MB ATi Radeon 9200SE video card and AC97 audio.
Snippet from Gamespot (read the full report here):

Half-Life 2 Survivor runs on an arcade cabinet that looks like that of a typical car-racing game, but instead of taking the wheel, players use joysticks on both armrests and foot pedals to control the action. The machine is based on Taito's Type-X unit, which is an arcade system built with PC components, running on Windows XP Embedded. The cabinet used for the game features a 32-inch LCD monitor running at a resolution of 1360x768 pixels, and it also has 5.1-channel surround sound. As usual for modern arcade games, the machine uses a smart card for storing player data. Half-Life 2 Survivor is network enabled, so players in different arcades will be able to work with or against each other in a variety of modes.

We gotta get one for the lab for app compat testing, yeah, that's the ticket.

- Andy