Author: halo@bungie.org

And the Halo-branded marketing rolls on. Over at Xbox.com, you’ll find a new Halo sweepstakes discussed; it doesn’t kick off until September 1, but there’s lots of goodies to win. Go read about it! Thanks, KP. (I found it mildly amusing that the Xbox….

According to IGN, the Halo 3 Xbox 360 now has an official street date – September 16, just 9 days before Halo 3 is released. You can preorder it from EBGames now. (Louis Wu 21:31:45 UTC)

Oh, man… preorder Halo 3 at Target, and you’ll get an exclusive ActionClix 2-pack (a Master Chief and an Elite). Sounds like collecting them all is gonna be hard… thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 21:23:03 UTC)

Sigafoos wrote to point out The Riot 59 – a bit late, but none the worse for wear. 32 mins, 13 mb, their usual community coverage. Go listen!(Louis Wu 19:07:22 UTC)

Marc “Zelahn” Swint let us know that No Scope Gaming will be holding a tournament in the Wilmington, DE area on August 18th, at 2 pm. FFA Slayer to 25, entry fee is $25 at the door, preregistration available on their myspace page; first prize is a Lege…

David Johnson pointed out three new items at the Bungie Store – a wall calendar, a poster using the ‘Emotion’ artwork, and a poster using the Halo 3 Logo/Ark artwork. Go cover your walls!(Louis Wu 19:02:25 UTC)

Back in December, we heard from GothicSlayer, who was working on a full-back Halo Legendary tattoo. He stopped by this morning with an update… and all I can say is WOW. That there’s some serious fan lovin’…(Louis Wu 17:40:59 UTC)

Kaboris found a site offering Halo ring tones and wallpaper to mobile phone users in Japan – but the ringtones, at least, are available to anyone who can download MP3s.(Louis Wu 15:56:12 UTC)

Elnea stopped by to point out another 3 episodes of Halo Action Figure Theater – sounds like they’re taking over her life! Go check ’em out.(Louis Wu 15:12:32 UTC)

Back in 2003, Joyride distributed 250 prototype mini-MC figures; they’ve been really, really hard to get hold of since then. Nathan Neilson stopped by last night to point out an eBay auction; he’s selling his. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:10:19 UTC)

Subnova posted a couple of clips from the Norwegian news magazine Dagbladet; they’re from the same interview session that Gamersyde posted with ‘No Comment’ last week, but some of the pieces are new. Go watch!(Louis Wu 13:52:12 UTC)

Back in May, we noted a story that four million preorders had been taken for Halo 3 (by Gamestop and its affiliates); that number seemed rather high, but nobody contradicted it. Today, the Wall Street Journal comes out with a far more reasonable number…

A bunch of European Xbox sites had the chance to ask questions of Frankie and Sketch in Amsterdam last week; the interview went live today. Gamersyde was first out of the gate (thanks, Andy C) but it’s on other sites, as well – for example, Marc from …

A bunch of people on our forum have been reporting that Mountain Dew Halo 3 Game Fuel is appearing in stores, almost a week ahead of schedule. Gaming Talk HQ has seen it too (in 2 liter bottles). Swing by your local mart and check it out for yourself!…

Z let us know that StatsReloaded.com has added MLG Meadowlands stats – lots and lots of data about the teams (and players). Check it out! (4v4 stats are here.)(Louis Wu 12:25:56 UTC)

Tural noticed some cool new Halo 3 Special Edition Gamerpics, as well as the Special Edition Theme (scroll to the bottom) – they’re listed as ‘free’, but it’s unclear if they’re exclusively for the Special Edition or not.(Louis Wu 23:30:04 UTC)

Last week, Bungie explained how 4-player co-op was going to work – right down to naming the two elites that play as the third and fourth characters. Will those names be a problem? Stuntmutt thinks so… check out today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 16:05:3…

So, if you didn’t make it to San Diego last week for ComicCon, but you really, really want one of those huge ActionClix Halo 3 Scarabs they sold last week for $250… there are currently six for sale on eBay, with current prices ranging from about $150…

3Suns was kind enough to summarize some of the most interesting new content on the MLGPro.com website for us; there’s a look at the new goodies in Halo 3, a discussion of how Forge might affect pro gaming, an interview with Cpt. Anarchy, and an interv…

Roger Wilco was the first to tell us about an interesting hack to the Wiimote controller; someone went to a lot of trouble to allow it to play Halo. (Actually, the Xbox 360 Input Machine can do more than that, but Halo looks like it was the proof of c…