Author: narcogen

If your Halo 3 disc was scratched in the box, Microsoft will replace it. However, you only have until the end of this year.

HBO posted the box acronyms for the regular (SLMCWMYOW) and Legendary editions (WWYANOFAWD) of Halo 3.

Bungie.net has a nice piece up about Halo 3’s campaign scoring feature. Campaign Scoring can be enjoyed by one to four players. It works the same whether you’re playing alone or with friends but it really gets fun when a group of players compete against one another to Finish the Fight and try for the…

Bungie’s own madmax has put up a facebook gallery of photos from Bungie’s Halo 3 launch party. You can see Louis Wu doing shots, Bill Gates playing Halo 3, and, of course, the Master Chief hugging Cortana.

Man Demon says he’s found the first Halo 3 box acronym on his Limited Edition copy: JLTLEBLC Gentlemen, start your engines.

With Halo 3 unleashed across the East Coast about half an hour ago, the Internet is still teeming with Halo-related… stuff. Here are a few items: News.com knows people who are waiting in Times Square right now. XBL subscribers will be able to get some exclusive Halo 3 content starting on the 27th. Included are…

The Seattle Post Intelligencer wonders if Halo 3 can ‘turn things around’ for Microsoft’s Xbox 360. While I know from personal experience that copyeditors are sometimes pressed for time, I’m still at a loss to understand that headline.  Click here for the complete text.

Bungie’s guide, tips and tricks for setting up your set-up.

Bungie Pro, the totally optional, expanded File Share feature is discussed at Bungie.net.

Bungie.net gives you a simple set-up guide to getting your network ready for Halo 3.

With the embargo date now past, reviews of Halo 3 are going up all over the web. Rather than flood the front page with them, there’s now a separate Halo 3 reviews page and a menu item in the left hand column. Have you played Halo 3? Want to submit your own review? Go to…

Louis Wu at HBO is right– Halo: The Future of Gaming is one of the funniest videos, ever. It takes a few minutes to set itself up, and commits a few boo-boos in the process (in 1994 Bungie was in Chicago, not Kirkland, and Halo 1 came out in 2001, not 2002) but those are…

These days it seems like everyone at Bungie is giving interviews. Of course that’s not really the case; Bungie is just much larger than it was back in the days when you could attend a MacWorld show and meet practically the whole company. One thing that hasn’t changed too much is the man behind it…

The Master Chief teabags a PlayStation 3 in this Gamebrink video linked over at Kotaku.

Luke Smith has posted up the last Bungie Weekly Update before the game goes into everyone’s (or mostly everyone’s) hands: a How-To article on Bungie.net’s new features. Still nothing about fileshare RSS feeds, but it does look like there will be a high degree of integration between your fileshare and the Bungie.net forums.

Looks like some of the guys over at The Hushed Casket managed to pick up copies of Halo 3 early– they’re already unlocking achievements! So far there are no matchmaking lists online, apparently.

Not much more to say: the man really is nuts. Check GamePolitics for the story and the full complaint.

A few more pre-launch interviews of Bungie folk out there: Armchair Empire talked to environmental artist Mike Zak. The Escapist and Next Generation talked to production head Jonty Barnes (Next-Gen got him in a package deal with Jay Weinland). Dean Takahashi at the San Jose Mercury News talked to community lead Brian “SketchFactor” Jarrard and…

In the past couple days, Microsoft has put up two new Halo-related items on the web powered by its Flash-like Silverlight technology; first, the Halo-themed Tafiti search engine (which I’ve had a little trouble loading) and now an Interactive Halo 3 Manual… which I’m having a bit more luck with. Maybe you will, too.

TeamXbox has the story of Montreal animation studio damnfx, tapped by Bungie to help produce some of the in-engine cinematics of Halo 3. “Having recently worked on two large format stereoscopic films for IMAX theatres, it was refreshing to focus simply on delivering outstanding animation, while letting Bungie’s Halo 3 game engine worry about lighting,…