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More mirrors – Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews, of the Junkyard, has put both the Halo Commercial and the Halo Launch Party footage up on their Halo downloads page. We’ll put together full lists very soon.

Woohoo! Mirrors, mirrors, everywhere! Another Commercial mirror, courtesy of Bounty, at Battleground: Halo:FilePlanetAnd three mirrors for the Launch party footage:Fileplanet (thanks again, Bounty!)Halo’s Universe (thanks, genohunter!)Kbjlake’s mirror (thanks, Kbjlake!)That should hold most of you…

Thanks greatly to Mavruss, who has sent in 8 minutes of video footage from the Launch party – ambience, food, and gameplay. It’s in WMV format, and it’s 5.6 MB, zipped, and we’d love mirrors for it. (Please – nobody complain about the format; the original upload was a 650 MB .avi that wasn’t readable…

Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines, despite the influx of two new team members (and an increase in crunching from existing members), are left in the dust by The Athlonmb.com Seti Team. Ouch! They fall one place, to 53rd, in the Battle of the Teams. Are you doing YOUR part? Check the 7 day stats page…

Kbjlake writes to say that the Halo commercial (mpeg format) has been mirrored on his webspace – grab it there if you’re having trouble with our link! (Thanks, Kbjlake!)

There are more in the works, we hear… but the first screenshots sent to us of the Launch Party have been uploaded – a few shots showing the Halo T-shirt Bungie was selling at the event. Take a look… this’ll be available to the public as soon as the Bungie Store goes live again!

Ryan ‘TheMystic’ Lord, of Invisible Dream, writes to point out a large article on the Halo launch party – descriptions, interviews with partygoers, and 35 photos – including some fun shots of Bungie employees, like this one, showing Matt’s new “Unabombers R Us” beard… Check it out! (For more Launch Party goodness, check out the…

Kayas has kindly converted the Halo commercial (first available in Real format, then this evening in .asf) to MPEG format – we’ve placed a copy on our overflow space at mac.com. (Anyone who wants to mirror this – let us know as soon as possible!) In addition to being in a much friendlier format, it’s…

TeamXbox has put up the first four Xbox gameplay commercials (including Halo, of course), in ASF format (downloadable). Thanks to Forrest Wickman for the first heads-up!

Red Hot Ryan points out that 3D Action Planet has posted the Gamespy Halo review that went live yesterday. Same story, different background…

The first few reports have trickled in from the Launch Party last night (folks having too much fun to report back, it seems!) – overall response seems to be pretty positive. jaslak summed up the general attitude towards Bungie’s willingness to do stuff like this: It was an impressive sight, to see bungie employees and…

GameSpot has put up another GameSpotting article, this time devoted to the wonder that is Halo multiplayer. Joe Fielder waxes poetic about the 8-player carnagefests they were having for hours:One time, two enemy tanks came up to our base. Shahed hopped out of his tank to enter the base and take our flag. I jumped…

Thanks to Uriel, who discovered 15 new Halo screens at PC Games.de (you can see them in 640×480 format, or 768×576 format). Some nice ones in there…

For those who haven’t checked in for a while, the Halo Launch Party got underway about 45 minutes ago at the Hotel Monaco in Chicago. I hope all that needed to be inside GOT inside… we’ve gotten no word from anyone there yet, but if news breaks, we’ll let you know! The Halo Launch Party…

Jeremy, from Xbox Addict, took a few pics at his local software boutique while playing – you can check ’em out in this thread on their forum. Thanks to TomeOne for the heads-up.

St. Killer drops a montage on us – a pretty scary fightscene, if it actually went down that way. 🙂 Check it out in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Gamespot’s Joe Fielder gives Halo a video review (80-90 MB download, also available in streaming formats) – word on the street is it’s full of spoilers. 🙁 Still – it’s out there.

There’s not much there yet… but in a few short hours, the Halo Launch Party will get underway in Chicago, and we’ve set up a page to handle the news and information. A bunch of HBO regulars will be there, and hopefully will get the chance to post their thoughts and observations as the night…

IMPORTANT: At 2:41 am Chicago time, Matt Soell dropped into our forum to apologize for the RSVP snafu (and the limitations of reality in general). He’s not going to be able to respond to all of the RSVPs – but here are his general guidelines:Bottom line: If you RSVPed two weeks ago, you are almost…

Gamespy has put up their full Halo review… and they weren’t that imporessed. A solid title, but nothing special. Mostly, they were frustrated with what they saw as repetitive gameplay (“It’s like a videogame equivalent of Groundhog Day”). You can’t please everyone… Charles Clifford gets the first-spot nod.