Battleground: Halo posted news about a new poll at xbox.ign.com; readers are being asked to rate the 25 hottest games , released or as-yet unreleased. Halo is on the list, along with many other titles for several different platforms, including the PC, Xbox, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance and GameCube (no mention of the Mac).

The list of nominated games is a little bit varied; how exactly Wario Land on the GameBoy Advance ends up competing on equal terms with the likes of Halo, Half-Life and Unreal Tournament is kind of beyond me. And strangely, Escape from Monkey Island is listed as a PlayStation title. Didn't that start on the Mac and the PC?

Each voter gets to choose three. There's also a form to nominate a game that's not on the list, but that costs you one of your three votes. Halo is currently the only Bungie game nominated. Perhaps that can be rectified.

IGN will begin counting down the top 25 games from the poll results on Nov. 12.