For those of you not too busy playing the new Infection playlist on Xbox Live, the cutscenes for The Covenant (all six of them) are now live in the HBO Halo 3 Cutscene Library. For what it's worth - this is going to continue to grow after the final level is posted; some of the cutscenes change in Co-op play, according to CJ Cowan, Bungie's Cinematics director... so we're going to need to add the altered ones. Have patience!(Louis Wu 23:40:14 UTC)

The second half of GameTap's interview with Joe Staten (the first half was here) is now online - this one ranges from Ghosts of Onyx to Halo 2 to Halo 3 (it contains major ending spoilers for Halo 3, so if you haven't played it, beware), and has a really sizeable amount of information. Joe is (for Bungie) uncharacteristically forthcoming with interesting tidbits. Thanks again, Jared Rea.(Louis Wu 18:46:49 UTC)

Stuntmutt has a holiday-themed One One Se7en for you today - for those keeping track, it has a Halo spoiler in it. (If you're reading One One Se7en, and you've never played ANY of the Halo games, but you PLAN to... well, I'm not sure we should be protecting you from spoilers, but...)(Louis Wu 18:17:53 UTC)

However, he made a blog post suggesting that there are new gamerpics available for Games for Windows - Live users. Sorry Major, but those gamerpics were released in an August update to Games for Windows - Live. More reasons why you need someone reporting GfW-Live news.

Here's looking forward to playing Gears of War on the PC. Hopefully the GfW-Live revolution will begin.

However, he made a blog post suggesting that there are new gamerpics available for Games for Windows - Live users. Sorry Major, but those gamerpics were released in an August update to Games for Windows - Live. More reasons why you need someone reporting GfW-Live news.

Here's looking forward to playing Gears of War on the PC. Hopefully the GfW-Live revolution will begin.

We're aware that players are experiencing slowness in matching in today's special edition hopper. Men of the Top nature have been deployed.

This is just... wrong.(Louis Wu 16:58:59 UTC)

Z let us know about The Wicked Ending, a huge (270 mb, 14 minutes long) Halo 3 montage from Hysteria and Eli; it's full of multikills (Killtrocities and up), lots of FFA against MLG pros, and pretty nice editing to boot. If you've been missing some Halo 2 montage action, check this out.(Louis Wu 16:57:31 UTC)

Elnea, shameless in her misuse of a numbering system that wasn't designed for her ramblings, gives us Halo Action Figure Theater 98.74: Last Year's Transport. Fantastic use of props... (Louis Wu 14:33:22 UTC)

Wow, nice. SodaGod has started a Halo news show over at Machinima.com; yes, these have been done before, but not with audio this good, or with SG's whacky brand of humor. The video information listed is pretty much entirely wrong; the downloaded video is 48 mb, not 37, and the running time is 5 minutes, not 8:28 - but it's a great watch. You can also snag it on YouTube if you don't want to download it. Thanks, Adam Kovic.(Louis Wu 10:50:44 UTC)