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This has been news for some time, but I’m not sure we’ve ever reported it – there’s a news piece over at Gamepro that confirms that Halo 2 Vista will NOT support DirectX 10 visual effects. (This might come as a surprise to some, since it’s a Vista-only game, and the justification for that, originally,…

Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, has written up a frame by frame analysis of the TV ad; lots of detail. Much of this material has been hashed out on our forum (and others), but Narcogen does a good job of sticking to what we KNOW, rather than what we WANT, and he brings a pretty hefty…

This went live last night, but real life got in the way of posting it. Bungie has a new job posting online – they’re looking for a ‘Contract 3D Artist’. Wanna work on Halo 3? This is your chance!(Louis Wu 11:07:14 UTC)

Jonathan Rivas noticed a new Brute Icon Tee at the Bungie Store – sharp!(Louis Wu 21:59:45 UTC)

Paul Maestri continues to pump ’em out – Halo Heads 32 looks at Sneak King… you gotta wonder about video games based on fast food.(Louis Wu 21:04:53 UTC)

Submitted yesterday, almost lost in the flood of commercial-related news… 2old2play has released Issue 7 of their bimonthly magazine (in downloadable PDF format) – this one’s got a nice two-page interview with Matt Hullum of Red vs Blue. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 20:53:57 UTC)

I have vague memories of seeing this movie before, but I couldn’t find it in our news database… so for here, it’s new. Daniel Tartar was searching for the new ad, and ran across this movie – nice claims in there.(Louis Wu 20:51:31 UTC)

PEZ, from halowiki.net, wrote to say that the Turrets article last week has grown tremendously, because of your visits and input – so they’re trying again with a new issue of the week – Strafing. Swing by and see what’s up now, and add your two cents!(Louis Wu 20:49:36 UTC)

I wasn’t going to post this, because the language isn’t really safe for work… but it WAS funny, and I DID get chewed out for ignoring it, so… here’s a funny mix of the commercial and some music from Team America. It actually fits really well, but make sure your boss isn’t walking by as…

There’s a new 360 Theme available on XBL Marketplace, based on images from the commercial – it’s 150 points, and LordGideon kindly provided screenshots of all four blades. They’re all 1280×1024, and weigh in at around 200kb each.Blade 1 | Blade 2 | Blade 3 | Blade 4(Louis Wu 16:57:36 UTC)

In case you’re not TOTALLY overloaded with Halo stuff today, Jillybean has submitted a massive update to the Halo Story Page – lots of goodies in there. She’s doing her best to flood your senses… (heh? get it? Flo- oh, never mind.)(Louis Wu 16:20:22 UTC)

Lots of people have been working on content from the Commercial – the news today contains edited video, icons, there are lots of Wallpapers posted in our forum (and sent in via email)… but one piece of Fanart that blew me away was a speed painting done by Rahll, over at DeviantART (it’ll be in…

Curtis, over at YouNEWB.com, has put up 39 stills from the trailer; no watermarks. Nice shots!(Louis Wu 15:54:34 UTC)

A lot of little things from the commercial have been discussed more than once. I’ve tried to summarize these in this forum post; please read it before jumping in and starting your own thread. Thanks!(Louis Wu 15:43:40 UTC)

Tied the Leader gets into the commercial-analysis game… though with a slightly different tack; they look at the marketing side of it. Interesting article. (While you’re there, there’s other new stuff; 22 Questions with Midnight, of Cooked Gamers, a clan profile of Legion of the Apocalypse, and a recap of the past 10 clan profiles.)…

JPOGDNA created a new batch of Halo 3 Icons (for AIM, MSN, etc), based on last night’s commercial – you can find them at GetXbox.net.(Louis Wu 14:55:38 UTC)

Stuntmutt tossed in a followup to yesterday’s One One Se7en strip – if it makes no sense to you, check the ad in this post.(Louis Wu 14:54:12 UTC)

Narcogen wrote up a transcript of the commercial – it’s not very different in actual dialogue from a half-dozen others on our forum, but he does a nice job of summarizing the action, as well – and he added some preliminary commentary about it, as well (worth reading, if you’re planning on joining the discussion).…

Okay, now that I’ve gone through all 800+ new posts from the past 12 hours, I can start pulling out the new stuff. The majority of what’s there is speculation about the trailer; I’ll probably put up a summary of noticed things soon, just to keep people from repeating the same points over and over…

Thanks to broony, who noticed, over at IGN UK, a full list of EU sites offering beta seats – there are 34 on the list, corresponding to 3400 beta testers in the UK – a far more reasonable number than the paltry 15 for NZ/AU mentioned yesterday. (I’m SURE there’ll be more listed for those…