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Salen Stormwing and pillar of awesome both let us know that NPR did a piece on the Halo 3 marketing campaign during Marketplace this evening – direct download link is here.(Louis Wu 00:28:41 UTC)

James Cockshull let us know that Virgin Megastores seems to have restocked the Halo 3 Legendary Edition – at least, that’s what their web page says. No guarantees until someone actually GETS one from them – but if you’re in the UK, and you want one of these, this might be a way to get…

Second Take looks back over the games that have paved the way for Halo – pretty thoughtful video. The Game Fuel comedy at the end is a bonus – and pure gold. Thanks, zugy.(Louis Wu 00:22:41 UTC)

Microsoft has kicked off a Halo-themed version of Tafiti – go check it out. Tafiti is a search front end from Microsoft; it uses Silverlight (Microsoft’s Flash-like layer) and Live Search to bring you lots of Halo search goodness. It requires Silverlight, which is available (for free) for both Macs and PCs, and it currently…

The frenzy for high-quality Halo armor continues. (Remember that suit of armor we mentioned on September 11? The auction closed yesterday… for a mind-boggling $21,149.00. I mean… Wow.) Cpl. Fin Aeros points out another auction containing material from the same artist – this time it’s just a helmet, and the bidding currently stands at a…

karebearstare put together his own parody of the Believe ads – it’s short, it’s cute, it’s available at MLG’s Gameroom and YouTube. Go see what you think.(Louis Wu 10:26:58 UTC)

Even the Fan Fiction writers are pumped up this week – fifteen new pieces for you. Now, I’ve looked at all of them, and made sure that none are OVERTLY full of spoilers for Halo 3… but I can’t be positive that nobody’s snuck in a one-liner somewhere just to be obnoxious. (Seems unlikely, but…

Littlebigman found a cool little article on Spawn.com which shows how Todd McFarlane created the artwork that graces the two Limited Edition Halo 3 Wireless Controllers. (Louis Wu 10:12:15 UTC)

Over at Music 4 Games, you’ll find a great interview with Marty O’Donnell – tons of info about how he works, how the music for Halo 3 was created, what’s next for him. Mike Salvatori sometimes gets left out of the equation when discussing Halo music, because he works in Chicago, instead of Kirkland… but…

In case you haven’t had ENOUGH new content today, Luke Smith posted the latest Bungie Podcast, weighing in at a ridiculous 2 hours long, and 123 mb large. Doesn’t he know the internets are made of tubes? BUNGIE’S CLOGGING EVERYTHING! It’s an exhaustive discussion of the new Bungie.net, plus discussion about the next Halo novel,…

This vid made me smile. Thanks, Mad Tom.(Louis Wu 21:57:05 UTC)

Today was the day for comics, I suppose – we heard from Sane Intolerant, whose latest Halo Toy Box speculates (with NO foundation) about the ending to Halo 3, and Haloplayer, who let us know about the fourth Countdown Comic from Injured Knee Productions. (Louis Wu 21:53:34 UTC)

Up on Bungie.net, you’ll find a really cool story – they’ve posted one last VIDOC, this one covering Saved Films and Forge. It’s called Cinema Paradiso, and I’ll let Frankie’s words describe it: Take a closer look at two of Halo 3’s coolest features. Saved Films let you replay your games, Campaign or Multiplayer, from…

Hawty McBloggy continues her countdown to Halo 3 – yesterday was “Make a Master Chief out of Play-Doh” Day (a much better choice than Talk Like a Pirate Day), and a bunch of people participated. Today, she’s asking folks to rewrite songs with Halo lyrics, and she kicks off the festivities with ‘I’m a Halo…

Winner: Lamest Halo Article of the Day.(Louis Wu 17:42:36 UTC)

We’ve mentioned the ‘Believers’ events in Singapore before (here, and here), but today we got copies of the preorder forms availalbe to folks in that country, from Qdepartment (image 1 | image 2 | image 3). Looks like you get a nice schwag bag when you show up at the Launch event!(Louis Wu 17:01:36 UTC)

Stuntmutt pointed out an interview with Brian Jarrard and Frank O’Connor at Toyfare – not a ton of new info, but apparently, the current issue of the mag has several pages of pictures of toys, including a Hammer-weilding Master Chief HaloClix figure. Go look for it!(Louis Wu 16:54:20 UTC)

Veegie sent us a pretty interesting pamphlet this week; he received it in the course of his job at Target, and while it doesn’t hold any company secrets, I found it really interesting, in terms of how a large retail outlet approaches a marketing campaign like Halo 3’s. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:39:02 UTC)

IGN has posted an article, with several streaming vids, about a demonstration at the Tokyo Game Show this week. Jay Weinland and Jonty Barnes walked the IGN folks through some campaign coop stuff, as seen through saved films – there are definitely some minor spoilers in here, so if you’re looking for a pristine campaign…

Wow, lots of stuff slipping through the cracks. I took a look at this Reuters article yesterday, and passed over it because it seemed to be yet another “Halo is making a lot of money” piece. Xbox 360 Fanboy read it a little more carefully, and noticed, buried in the second-to-last paragraph, a short list…