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A thread in 4chan claims to have a screencap from the endgame cinematic and summarizes the end of the game. WARNING: The link may contain spoilers. Don’t click it if you don’t want to know what may, or may not, be the end of Halo 3.

1Up is running a story to the effect that the alleged Halo film script by Alex Garland, famously referred to at Latino Review, and that I also wrote a few pieces on back in 2005, has been “recovered”. As if it had been lost. 1Up’s just running a few pages of it at a time,…

Kotaku has the story that Yahoo will be hosting two new exclusive Halo 3 videos, Museum and Believe, this week. Both will debut at 9 PM Pacific Time; Museum on Wednesday, and Believe on Friday. Looks like live action and commercial footage, rather than in-engine cutscene or gameplay.

MasterChief2829 pointed out a link to an eBay auction that claims to have the full retail Halo 3 package, including an unboxed shot. It appears to be a PAL version of the game from Australia.

Cinema Blend Games has a series of pieces by Steve West they’re calling their Halo 3 Primer. It covers: Multiplayer UNSC weapons Covenant weapons Equipment UNSC vehicles Covenant vehicles Characters Story Community Editions/Accessories A lot of information there– most of it not new, but it’s nice to have it all in one place.

Jason “Gravemind” Goodman (also known as ShadowoftheVoid) has written up part one in a series on the history of medium-range weapons in the Halo series, this one focusing on the recent nerf of the Covenant Carbine between the Halo 3 beta and now.

TrackZero at Evil Avatar got to see a closed-door demonstration of two campaign levels from Halo 3. His verdict? It’s a keeper if you like Halo, at least a rental if you don’t. It takes all the best of the series and kicks it up a notch. I never encountered any issues during gameplay at…

Kotaku has the story that says that eighty-eight Best Buy locations have been chosen to open at midnight to sell Halo 3 on September 25. See Kotaku for the full story or click the thumbnail on the left for the complete list.

In yet another example of Halo becoming so cool that the only way to make yourself look cooler in comparison is to dump on it, Steve Tilly at the Edmonton Sun drops this pearl of wisdom: Halo 2 is the #4 most overhyped game ever, just ahead of Daikatana: One of my biggest regrets as…

This has to be one of the strangest Halo tie-ins. Madame Tussaud’s wax museum in Las Vegas, Nevada has added a wax statue of its first videogame hero: Master Chief from Halo. You really sort of want to know whose idea this was, and then who thought it was a good enough idea to actually…

Whagi in the Xbox Live Forums warns that US and UK subscribers to Xbox Live may be targets of a phishing attempt. An email arrives that claims to require you to login to XBL due to changes to your account, but the links in the message go to a fake XBL login page that allows…

As soon as possible being, in this case, already. Francesca Reyes, Editor-in-Chief of Official Xbox Magazine, has already played through the entire Halo 3 single-player campaign, and her ten page review will hit the streets in the next edition of OXM, day and date with the game. Technically nobody’s supposed to say a word about…

Hawty McBloggy compiled a list of top ten things to do while Xbox Live is down, (it’s back up already) while GameDaily has a list of top ten things to do before Halo 3 comes out. Just remember, this isn’t really Halo news, just an amazing NBC simulation. The items range from the practical (sleeping)…

Tex went to pay off the last installment of her Halo 3 Legendary Edition preorder and got a couple of unexpected surprises: the early arrival of the new Halo 3-themed wireless controllers, and a special Halo 3 bracelet given out to GameStop employees. Check the Queen of the Hill blog for photos.

You may have read somewhere else already that press reviews of Halo 3 (much like Halo 2 before it) are handled in a somewhat different way than other games. Bungie doesn’t mail out review copies to journalists in advance; if they did, it’s possible the game’s ending would have been spoiled by now. GamePro has…

This week’s Bungie Weekly Update– only two more to go now before the game’s out– is supposedly the biggest ever, at least in terms of kilobytes. Most of the content consists of pictures of Kotubukiya Halo 3 statues and McFarlane Halo 3 figures. The last image is interesting, though, as it seems to show the…

1Up’s Halo 3 coverage continues; this time, the Retronauts Blog is traveling further back in time to the colony ship Marathon. There’s also an indication from Greg “Hippieman” Morrison from Freeverse in the comments to that entry to the effect that if there’s enough interest, that Marathon Infinity and even the original Marathon can also…

HBO is announcing the winners of their latest Seven on Seven contest. This last competition was to put the Master Chief into an older Bungie game. The seven winners get free downloads of Freeverse’s Marathon:Durandal from Xbox Live Arcade.

Japanese publication PingMag interviews Bungie’s environmental artist Ken Taya on the cultural influences on design jobs here and in Japan: Well in terms of semantics the actual word designer and the roles associated with this position differ. Here comes an over generalisation: I feel that the Japanese game developers really focus on the feel of…

TeamXbox interviews Todd McFarlane, designer of new Halo toys and the Halo 3 controller. The first two pages are mostly about his failed baseball career and his entry into the world of comics, mainly Spawn, but by page three he’s talking about how they make figures from the information Bungie sends them: We’re developing figures…