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GameDaily has an interview with writer Stuart Beattie, who is taking Eric Nylund’s Halo novel The Fall Of Reach and adapting it into a film script. Beattie was the writer on Pirates of the Carribbean and G.I. Joe, and wrote a Gears of War script last year.

Okay, first of all, I know, there’s no such thing as official Mythic difficulty in Halo 3. That’s what people call playing solo, legendary, all skulls on (HSH calls them SLASO to create more acronyms). Asmodeus has posted over at HBO a walkthrough for this mode that makes this possible, and it’s fantastic. If you…

Okay, first of all, I know, there’s no such thing as official Mythic difficulty in Halo 3. That’s what people call playing solo, legendary, all skulls on (HSH calls them SLASO to create more acronyms). Daniel “Tyrant” Morris has posted over at HBO a walkthrough for this mode that makes this possible, and it’s fantastic.…

According to the intertubes, Microsoft is forging ahead with Halo using a new internal studio. Forming the team are Ryan Payton, formerly of Kojima Productions and the producer of Metal Gear Solid 4; Corinne Yu, former technician at Gearbox; and at least two former Bungie employees: writer Frank “Frankie” O’Connor and animator Nathan “bentllama” Walpole.…

So the teaser that Bungie wanted to tease us with this past E3 is now out for download on Bungie.net in the usual flavors of QuickTime and Windows Media. Luke Smith’s post on Bungie.net calls this a “CG-teaser” and the front page refers to it as being for “one of our current projects”. My general…

Bungie restarted the delayed countdown from this year’s E3 with the Superintendent urging everyone to stay calm and keep clean– at least until about seven minutes from now. Images on the intertubes (thanks Veegie) suggest perhaps something as dramatic as a trailer for a brand-new Bungie game.

Wideload’s Halo-engine zombie game, Stubbs the Zombie, is available for the PC for only five bucks now from Steam. Thanks GameFocus for the heads-up.

Looks like the Superintendent is back. Perhaps one (or more) of the Bungie announcements that were indefinitely postponed at this year’s E3 are about to be made public.

EDGE has a feature up on th’ AI in th’ Halo series, an interview with programmer Damian Isla, where he brin’s up an interestin’ concept I’d love t’ see in a Halo game– or any Bungie game, really: There were bein’ th’ well-known example in Halo 2 where yer ‘hog full o’ marines would just…

From source.bungie.org: This is a minor feature release of Aleph One, which includes Windows improvements and support for the Unimap 2 format. It is network compatible with Aleph One 0.20.x Go get it.

What started as another one of those rumors within the span of a day became a confirmed truth: following the release of the upcoming Halo Wars RTS game for the Xbox 360 console, Ensemble Studios, known for the Age of Empires RTS series of games for Windows, will be shuttered. A new studio, like Ensemble…

Master Chief Theater 3000 takes a step back in time with Season 2 drawing from Halo 2’s cutscenes.

David Bowman, Design Lead at Certain Affinity, dishes on the Age of Booty blog about their upcoming pirate-themed XBLA game of the same name (previously called Plunder) and some of its influences, including Settlers of Catan. There is no release date yet, but the game is speculatively expected out in the second half of this…

According to Major Nelson’s blog, Halo 3 and COD4 have done the top ten topsy-turvy trick again. Call of Duty 4 is on top (for the moment) and Halo 3 is playing second fiddle.

First part of the finale of season 1 of Master Chief Theater 3000.

Bungie president Harold Ryan tells Variety how to be swallowed by Microsoft and emerge unscathed. Some highlights: thoughts of going independent went back 3-4 years, the preparations went back more than 2 years, and one of the driving reasons was the freedom to work on non-Halo titles.

Palluxo.com has a (late) review of the Mac version of Stubbs the Zombie. Fair warning: it spoils the entire plot, if you happen to mind that, and doesn’t really describe the gameplay.

Hippieman sent me a message on XBL a couple days ago.. the two downloadable netmap packs for Marathon:Durandal, the XBLA version of Bungie’s classic Mac and PC scifi shooter, the grand-daddy of Halo, are now online in the Xbox Live Marketplace.

You know Captain Spark. The guy who records all those audio snippets from Halo games? Yeah, that’s him. He’s weighed in now with a review of Halo 3’s campaign. He starts by getting two beefs of his chest (the over-aggressive Arbiter and the so-called “Cortana Moments”) before getting to what he likes. Well worth a…

Bungie President Harold Ryan denied claims by Microsoft’s Don Mattrick that he laughed and acquiesced with the publisher’s decision to indefinitely postpone Bungie’s E3 announcement. In an interview with Eurogamer, Mattrick once again explains their reasons for delaying the event, with no mention whatsoever of why it was made on such late notice– less than…