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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…

Doing one of my regular turns around gaming news sites, I came across an interview with John Romero, of Doom and, dare I say it, Daikatana fame, now Founder/President of Slipgate Ironworks. You can find it over at Adrenaline Vault. Slipgate is supposedly working on a new MMO for the PC. What I found interesting…

Louis Wu at HBO has put up an extensive roundup of analyses, commentaries and transcripts on yesterday’s Bungie VIDOC. To complement them, I’ve put together an annotated gallery of screenshots from the VIDOC, pointing out major features.

Of course, you didn’t think Bungie would just shovel the Multiplayer Public Beta date at you on a post-it note and call it done? No, of course not. So while Bungie.net now has a story that leads with this ultra-salient fact: The Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta will go live on May 16th at 12:00 AM…

Surprise, surprise– the new Halo 2 maps by Certain Affinity apparently won’t be only for the Xbox 360, but will also run on the original console. Hang ’em High and Derelict are coming to the new engine as Tombstone and Desolation. Apparently this means that Xbox Marketplace can’t be used, since it doesn’t support original…

Louis Wu says this article is supposed to have three parts, so I guess this is the end. Weapons? Covered. Characters? Covered. NPC behaviors? Covered. Cover? Covered. What’s left? Oh, right. Story. Plot Holes You Could Drive A Warthog Through Normally, when one is talking about plot holes, one is referring to elements of a…

The first time around, I talked a bit about Gears’ level structure, its cinematics, and main characters. Now a bit more about some of its unique strengths and weaknesses, compared to Halo, including NPCs and weapons. Click “read more” from the front page for the entire text. read more

Released a full two years later and the first title in a wave of second-generation games for Microsoft’s next-generation console, Halo 2 and Gears of War clearly have nothing in common, and nothing would be gained by trying to compare them. So why am I doing it? Because that’s the nature of my illness. After…

Bungie’s new new hotness– that is, the new design and featureset for the Bungie.net website– is online. Check out the details. Coolest feature so far? RSS feed.