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Halo 1 came out nearly six years ago. Halo 2 came out nearly three years ago, and until the release of bright, shiny, next-gen Gears of War, ruled the roost at Xbox Live. Halo 2 just logged it’s five millionth unique player, and will no doubt continue…

Urban Reflex’s Halo 3 blog, Ordained Insight, has several entries detailing his experience with the public beta in the past three days: weapons, equipment, interface, features, the lot.

This writeup of the Halo 3 press event by Damien “Angry Gamer” Sarcuni is more about cocktails and skirt-chasing than Bungie and Halo, so I’m at a loss at how to describe it. Here it is.

Today’s Ctrl-Alt-Delete tries to apply the rules of Heroes to the game of Halo and comes up with a predictably violent result.

Here’s a quick run-down on some sites with impressions of the Halo 3 Public Beta: GameSpot GamesDog GameInformer SlashDot TeamXbox Louis Wu at HBO pointed out some I missed on this list in his post yesterday: Xboxyde Kotaku Gearheads of War In oth…

Short update to the human equipment and weapons pages in the Halo 3 guide, with information on some of the equipment and weapons on tap in the Public Beta.

With the Public Beta fast approaching, there’s even more Halo-related news spiraling out of Bungie and the community. The Year We Make Contact The author of the next Halo novel, Contact Harvest, will be none other than Joseph Staten. It’ll be interest…

Alexander “The Man” Seropian, cofounder of Bungie and later Wideload Games, currently working on Hail to the Chimp to be published by Gamecock next year, gave an interview to Armchair Empire this week. Sounds like the interviewer was expecting to hear…

Frankie at Bungie says if you make a cool enough emblem design, it’ll be included in Halo 3. Check the post at Bungie.net about the Bnet reader design contest for details.

Kevin R. Grazier, a Ph.D in geophysics and a huge fan of Halo, has contributed to a book called Halo Effect that looks at the Halo phenomenon; his piece, Halo Science 101, is about the science of the Halo universe. Halo Science 101 is up now at Gamasu…

Ducain wrote to alert me of an update at Certain Affinity’s site, and it’s good news all around. First off, they’re passing around the news that Frankie at Bungie.net says the map downloading problems have been fixed. Secondly, the first Certain Affi…

In 2004, before the release of Halo 2, a website separate from Bungie.net, Halo2.com, went live, with information about the units, vehicles, and weapons in the game, laid out as if from the perspective of a Covenant intelligence agency. Similarly, Hal…

GamePro.com has put together the list of the 52 “most important” video games of all time. Because it’s a list done according to importance, it means that games that were significant, even if they were bad, are on the list. One assumes that’s not why H…

Kotaku says they’ve received word of a big Halo 3 media event on May 11, just prior to the start of the public beta on May 16.

Awesome O and Pillar of Awesome just announced that they’ve put together a Halo trivia quiz. Before anybody asks, a quick run-through got me 88%, good for the rank of Spartan II, meaning that so far Spartan Jag, Bry, chargeorge, ST, Schedonnardus, Nar…

Frankie at Bungie.net writes that the planned playlist update is being delayed until next week (probably) while they continue to investigate the problems some users are having in downloading Halo 2 maps. For what it’s worth, I’ve been able to get the …

InsideMacGaming notes that the Myth World Cup 2007 website has launched with a fan-produced promotional video. More details are “coming soon”. For Halo fans unfamiliar with the game, Myth is a fantastic real-time tactical combat game that eschews res…

Wired blogger Chris “GeekDad” Anderson recounts what little of his recent Bungie Studios visit that his NDA will allow. W…

Only a year ago, Bungie finally admitted they were, in fact, working on Halo 3, and had been for over a year. Now, with the release of that game still, in all likelihood, more than half a year away, rumors…

Not an entire day has passed since the release of Tombstone, Certain Affinity’s Halo 2 homage to the Halo 1 favorite Hang ‘Em High, along with Desolation, their remake of Derelict, before the first cracks are being found. GhostFaction at High Impact Halo has posted a vid by DominoEffect that shows a way out of…