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Wow! Design an emblem, and if it’s the winner, your emblem design will be featured in the actual Halo 3 game!

We chat with some of the developers of Shadowrun about their new game and the influence Halo had on it.

We have a nice, fat update today, with lots of Halo 2 and Halo 3 stuff for you, including some interesting new art.

Originally we indicated that this week was our target for updating the Halo 2 Xbox Live matchmaking playlists and resetting all player rankings. We are holding this update while we investigate and fix some of the Xbox Live download problems that people…

A Halo 2 all-nighter?  Heh.  Most of our members can do that with their eyes closed….  erhmmm, I mean, with one hand tied behind their ba….  Dang!

Very, very short Weekly Update today, but some good news about failed Halo 2 map downloads, at the very least.

EGM thought they could take us on. They thought they controlled the media. They thought they could win. They thought wrong.

The fine folks at HBO captured the Halo portion of VGL’s show in New Haven, CT.  With Tommy Tallarico’s (co-creator of VGL) insistence that the audience help spread the word, we bring you the Yale Symphony Orchestra-Choir’s full performance of the Halo 2 suite and the Halo 3 teaser.

The new Halo 2 maps are here. Bug fixes, workarounds and details about their inclusion in next week’s Matchmaking playlists, inside.

Starting as early as this weekend, it is possible you will see Gamertags on Xbox Live reporting that they are playing the “Halo 3 Beta.” Rest assured, this is a Microsoft internal Beta, and not the early start of the Halo 3 Public Beta which is still scheduled for May 16th. So don’t panic.

Retronauts is a 1up podcast which discusses, lovingly reminisces and laughs at the insanity of old video games on all platforms. Apparently due to a high demand, this week’s retronauts podcast is a little special (particularly for Bungie fans)… It’s a Marathon special!

Most of the cool info was revealed on Tuesday in the Multiplayer Vidoc, but here’s some stuff on matchmaking and more.

The Halo 2 auto-update is now available. Read more for a refresher on Sketch’s summary of it.

We chat with Certain Affinity’s art lead, Chris Wood, about the visual look and feel of the new Halo 2 Multiplayer Maps.

We reveal the Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta release date, and let you see MP footage and more in our latest Vidoc.

This week, Matchmaking, rank resets, Cinematics and…drum roll…the evolution of Fusion Cores! Are you not entertained!?

Games in Action is hosting a brand new competition.  All you have to do is come up with a witty one liner that a non-playable character might use in Halo 3 for your chance to win a copy of Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.  Read on to find all the details.

We stupidly take on Certain Affinity at the maps they just spent months building and playing. PS., Shishka Sucks.

We have a long chat with Certain Affinity’s Max Hoberman about making the new Halo 2 maps. Lots of insight follows.

We’re in the middle of upgrading the servers that receive game stats from the Xbox – processing of new stats may be delayed while we switch to the new system, and a few games might even fall through the cracks. (They’ll still count for rank, just won’t be visible on this site.) Sorry for any…