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Haven’t played Wideload Games’ debut effort, Stubbs the Zombie? Maybe you’ve never seen it in stores. Well, that’s no longer an excuse; for $19.95 you can get a digital delivery of Stubbs via Steam.

SketchFactor writes at Bungie.net that if you get this status code from your Xbox: “Status Code: Z: 8015 – 190D” Congratulations! You’ve been banned for modifying your Xbox. This doesn’t affect your XBL account, but does prevent that console from c…

Chad “Shishka” Armstrong, formerly Lorraine “Mehve” McLees’ assistant at Bungie, has opened up a 1Up blog. His first significant post tells the story of how he got hired at Bungie and how that led to his current position at Certain Affinity

Sorahn’s directory of Public Beta medals has been updated; it seems Bungie caved on Cheneymania, renaming it Open Season; also several missing medals, including Hail to the King, have been added.

GamePro interviews Bungie’s Lars Bakken about the Halo 3 Beta. PALGN has an article up giving their impressions of the Halo 3 Beta, by Alistair Macleod.

If you’ve been playing in the Beta since the 11th, you’ll have to install an update today to keep playing. If you don’t, you might get a message that says the H3 Beta is “unavailable or expired”. You should be prompted to download an update. If it do…

Bungie.net has an extensive guide to the Halo 3 Beta; if you’re participating, check it out. It covers matchmaking, controls, networking, customization, and a whole range of other topics. If you’re not playing, check it out anyway– it’s a good bet th…

The day before the Halo 3 Multiplayer Public Beta throws open its doors to the masses, Bungie pulled out the heavy guns. Mark this date on your calendars, folks: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Because that is the day that Halo 3 will be released. Th…

The Saved Film feature of Halo 3, as implemented in the beta, looks more like a framework than a finished piece of work, but even as such there are some quirks worth noting. Currently you can “share” up to six of your saved films; essentially, Xbox Li…

XerxdeeJ writes that Tied The Leader has a live audio report from the Halo 3 press event in New York. Check the blog for photos and other pre-beta coverage.

Sorahn put up a page of all the H3 beta medals he’s found so far; we also put up a special H3 Beta Medals page where you can search and sort them. Work is underway on better quality images and a more complete collection, word is there are still a fe…

Kudos to Stuntmutt via HBO for pointing out that Gabe and Tycho now like Halo. Are you a dirty little jeep? Yeah… I thought so. Other news: Halo 2 for Vista sucks, says CVG. Even the music. And the gameplay. And the enemies. And the pacing. This is…

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…