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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,…

HBO notes that they received a strange image, apparently one of many. Fan project? Another prong of the Iris ARG, thought finished last month? Who knows.

Chris Martin at Games First writes that between glitchers, hackers, and eight-year-olds, he’ll be turning in his copy of Gears of War to pick up Halo 3 next week. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.

IGN has put together a piece on the history of the Halo franchise; Louis Wu at HBO notes a few inaccuracies they’ve made, but if you weren’t a Halo fan eight years ago you might find some of this “old stuff” interesting.

SlashRF notes at High Impact Halo that zOMGWTFUDIED has gotten ahold of an early copy of Halo 3 and discovered what he thinks is a superbounce while dying near the Froman base on Last Resort (Zanzibar).

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.