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Bungie’s Jonty Barnes, talking to GameSpot at the Tokyo Game Show, mentioned that Bungie had to triple its server capacity to handle the increased load from Halo 3. Not sure whether that meant matchmaking, or community features, or what; but from the latest podcast it seems that stat-tracking will be vastly expanded, and Bungie is…

Rapture at The Hushed Casket has posted three videos from GameTrailers showing the Halo 3 multiplayer levels Construct, Isolation, and The Pit.

That’s the question posed on the latest podcast at C|Net. With Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 vying for the spot of top dog among next generation consoles, Microsoft has to be counting on their flagship franchise, Halo 3, to provide that final push to original Xbox owners to pony up for a 360. Will…

Hawty McBloggy figured yesterday should be the day everybody makes a Master Chief out of play doh, and that’s the part she started with, apparently. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.

Music 4 Games interviews Bungie maestro Marty O’Donnell about the soundtrack for Halo 3, and the news is all good for fans: more music, better fidelity, more orchestral arrangements and a more interactive feel this time around, not to mention another two disc soundtrack set due out sometime.

The latest Bungie Podcast is up and ready for your listening pleasure (and your mom’s); get it from Bungie.net or from iTunes. (Editor’s Note: I don’t see it available in iTunes yet, but I’m sure it’ll be there soon.)

Play.tm reports that images of Halo 3 retail discs have been seen online. Of course, they’re no good to owners of unmodified consoles, and modified consoles are of no use on Xbox Live, but still…

IGN talked to Tyson “Ferrex” Green about the Halo 3 multiplayer map, Isolation.

Next-Generation has a passel of interesting statistics about the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live– software sales, subscriber totals, the works– if you’re interested in that kind of thing.

Digital Journal interviews Bungie environmental art lead Mike Zak about the challenges of designing the incredibly detailed environments of Halo 3.

Wideload Games’ Alexander “The Man” Seropian will keynote the Indie Games Conference in Eugene, Oregon on October 10-11. He’ll be giving a talk on the mission of the new Wideload Shorts division of his company.

Bungie.net has a new VIDOC available– this one, called Cinema Paradiso, is about the Saved Films features of Halo 3.

Achronos notes that although the Bungie.net reboot is done, the Halo 3 sections will remain offline until this weekend.

Part Three of Ferrex’s trilogy on Forge is up at Bungie.net: Advanced Forge Editing. It covers how to edit objects in ways specific to creating certain goal-oriented gametypes, instead of just piles of fusion cores. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. What this article does talk about a lot is spawning: spawn points and…

Tyson “Ferrex” Green dishes details on the Construct multiplayer level over at GameSpot. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO. That note about “significant changes to the Banshee” around the time of the public beta sure is interesting…

Luke Smith posted at NeoGAF that there will be plenty more information about Halo 3 released by Bungie every day before the game launches, including info on Forge, a Halo 3 humpday, and an unnamed “surprise”.

This looks like a legitimate, if somewhat low quality, recording of Halo 3’s opening cinematic, explaining the Chief’s arrival on Earth. It also appears to confirm the contents of the game story summary posted elsewhere on the Internet. Again– if you don’t want to be spoiled, don’t view!

Okay, so th’ 360 isn’t settin’ sales records in Japan, and th’ Japanese aren’t really known worldwide fer their love o’ th’ Halo franchise, and dinna spare the whip, and a bucket o’ chum! Still, that di’nae stop flagship Japanese gamin’ magazine Famitsu from rankin’ th’ game quite highly. One scorer gave it 10/10, avast.…

A Kotaku reader snapped some photos o’ Halo 3 boxes arrivin’ at some game store, by Blackbeard’s sword. Not long t’ wait now!

Halo fan Mike McDermott created a 3d paper Master Chief usin’ a program called PePaKuRa, and a bottle of rum! Ahoy! For more images, check his Deviant Art page, by Blackbeard’s sword. Story from Kotaku.