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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.

Bungie.net will reboot tomorrow with new features enabled. TeamXbox has an interview with Bungie.net’s development lead, Chris Gossett, about the new features. IGN has previewed one of Halo 3’s previously unrevealed multiplayer maps: Isolation. Tyson “Ferrex” Green has put up part two of his three-part series on Forge; this one is on advanced features like…

Tyson “Ferrex” Green has written up the first part of a three-part series on working in Forge, Halo 3’s in-game editor. You’ll apparently be able to call on a startling variety of objects in the editor; although you won’t be able to change map geometry, you’ll be able to add objects so large that they…

Russ Pitts at the escapist has never preordered a game– until Halo 3, that is. Gamesindustry.biz reports that Microsoft is expecting to sell out of the Legendary edition of Halo 3, in the US at least. According to CVG, the Legendary edition has already sold out in the UK. Frank Caron from Ars Technica had…

First of all, this page contains SPOILERS. Do NOT read it unless you want the ending of Halo 3 spoiled for you. This is not appearing on the front page unless you’ve selected to view spoilers, and I’ve obscured the text by making it white on a white background; you’ll have to highlight it to…

Evil Avatar member Xijar has posted about his experience unboxing his brand-new Halo 3Xbox 360. Scroll down about halfway on the first page, or hit his Flickr page for all the photos.

The second-to-last Bungie Weekly Update before Halo 3’s official release date is well worth the read. The highlights, though, are you should stay out of random Bungie.net player profiles from now on, since you may end up seeing screenshots taken by people who’ve gotten copies early. Also, Miguel Chavez, invited to play through the game…

Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian says Halo 3 sales should reach $200 million, quoting Microsoft executives who expect $155M in first day says, up $30M from Halo 2’s total. Next-Generation has the story.

Adowaki has done a speedrun through Wideload’s Stubbs the Zombie, on the Insane difficulty. Check out part one and part two.

The second new Halo 3 ad is out, the one called Believe. It builds on the same theme as the previous ad, Museum. Joystiq thought it was a little strange, I can’t help but agree a little bit. I half-expected the gruesome diorama to morph into ActionClix figures. They don’t, however.

Shacknews asks Frankie how it feels at Bungie now that Halo 3 is all finished. They also get to cover a few other bases: such as baseball in Forge: Shack: How long do you think it will take before you start seeing things made with Forge and the gametype editor that you had never planned…

Frankie has posted at Bungie.net that Best Buy may be your best friend come Halo 3’s launch day: During the launch period of Halo 3, the 25th, 26th and 27th of September, Best Buy will be sponsoring the Xbox Live Gold service and making it free for everyone. Think of it as Halo Free Gold…

While many Halo fans are trying to keep themselves off the Internet to avoid spoilers, I’ve had trouble getting on it– the new DSL line is installed, but not yet working, and the old line decided to go on vacation for the past 24 hours. With that in mind, here’s a summary of the news…

Avateur pointed out some screenshots at TeamXbox that seem to have been released for the Tokyo Game Show. I’ve added them to our Halo 3 multiplayer gallery (six shots) and Halo 3 gallery (1 campaign shot). I’ll try to get the new ActionClix shots up shortly as well.

Retronauts continues its contributions to 1Up’s ongoing Halo 3 coverage by taking a look back at Marathon 2. In case you’ve been under a rock since July, Freeverse has ported the game to XBLA as Marathon:Durandal. Thanks to chewpathingy in the HBO forum.

At least, that’s what Brian Ashcraft at Kotaku says about the pre-Tokyo Games Show press event held by Microsoft, where they did show some Halo: Now, they are showing a Halo 3 trailer. Because, you know, the Japanese really love Halo. It’s a new trailer! They showed the Japanese TV ad, too. The Halo 3…

Gamasutra has a story up on some of the audio technology used to make Halo 3. Specifically, real time signal processing software by Waves, called Maxx. The story contains a short quote from Marty “The Elder” O’Donnell. Thanks to Anton P. Nym for the heads-up in the HBO forum.