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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.

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.