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This week: Playing with a Doctor, the truth about Berlin, beta housecleaning and the banhammer.

Bungie isn’t the only team with a Banhammer. The Xbox Live team has infinitely more powerful tools that obviously span beyond just the Halo games. Be warned that using hacked consoles will get you a one-way ticket to Banville – no matter which game you…

If you were a winner of the Microsoft Halo 3 “3 Ways to Play” promotion but haven’t received your beta code yet, please read this important update!

One more item of “gotta have it” merchandise for the Halo collecting crowd.  Grunty-Flakes?  Master Chief Breakfast Bars?  UNSC standard issue Underoos?  Spartan prophylactics? (look out “Trojan Man”!)   None of those…

Folks are reporting problems downloading the Halo 3 Beta via Crackdown this morning. We have alerted the appropriate Live authorities and they are taking care of the problem as we speak. More news as it comes in.

This is the day the wait ends.

Red vs. Blue meets Halo 3 on Xbox Live Marketplace.

A complete guide to the Halo 3 Beta, from getting started to advanced gameplay tips.

Some changes have been made to the current Friends and Family preview of the Halo 3 Public Beta. Read what they are and why they’re actually good for Halo 3’s fall release by clicking through.

Despite being away on business, Frankie co-pilots this pre-Momma’s Day Weekly Update.

Community stalwart and Halo 3 Beta-tester extraordinaire “Mr. Jukes” has created one of his trademark videos to tantalize and titillate the masses as the Halo 3 Public Beta draws nigh. Who exactly is this Mr. Jukes and what is a Lazr Cat? The answers l…

The next Halo novel is announced. Halo: Contact Harvest, is coming soon, and the author is our own Joseph Staten. We chat.

Tonight is the night for the long awaited Halo 2 Xbox Live Matchmaking Playlist update and ranking reset. Tombstone and Desolation will be required for some of the playlists and if you purchased them before Monday, 5/7, you will need to download them a…

Moments ago, we watched the odometer of Halo 2 players roll over the 5,000,000 mark. Today also happens to be the 2.5-year anniversary of launch. Here’s to continued growth of 2 million players per year!

The Blastacular Map Pack has been updated to fix bugs and superjumps before eing deployed to Matchmaking. The two new maps for Halo 2, Desolation and Tombstone, have both been replaced with updated versions, with the geometry fixes added. You will need…

[url=http://www.redbullflugtagusa.com/Nashville/peoples-choice.aspx] Go vote! [/url]One of Bungie.net’s members – xXb1az3d CatXx – and a team of his buddies have a wild card entry in the Red Bull Flugtag, an annual event where silly, reckless or suicid…

A few weeks ago Games in Action announced that it would be running a Halo 3 Dialog Competition.  Well we recieved well over 1000 entries but there could be only one winner.  The community voted and decided that Awhalesball’s entry was the best.

This week there is a LOT of information. You pretty much have to read this one. Seriously.

The recent downloading problems with the Halo 2 “Blastacular” map pack have been (mostly) fixed. Details inside.

Kubricks, the adorable Super Deformed action figures from Japan, are coming in Halo 3 flavors!