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The Curmudgeon Gamer has good things to say about the Halo 3 trailer – even though he doesn’t like Halo. Thanks, 3Suns.

Frankie is currently taking questions about the Halo 3 trailer over at Bungie.net; some of these will be answered in tonight’s Weekly Update. Swing by and toss your musings into the mix! Thanks, darthbob.

Sorry for the delay, with people out at E3, I forgot to mind the store. Check out the lead story on Bungie.net related to their return from Los Angeles and some discussion of what happened behind the scenes.

Most of us seem to have missed a short little interview that Major Nelson conducted with Marty O’Donnell outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Tuesday; Marty discussed the musical choices they made, and why the trailer felt as it did. An interesting little piece – and visual evidence that the shirt that Kotaku mentioned a couple…

Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen has lost no time organizing the Halo 3 content out at this point; you’ll find a new Halo 3 Movies page, containing local mirrors of the announcement trailer, a Halo 3 Articles page, containing local mirrors for Bungie’s Halo 3 comments, and a Halo 3 Image Gallery, which contains both official…

A few quick news posts before I sign off (what the HECK am I doing up less than three hours before I need to leave for the airport?)… PEZ has put together a small script that works in Firefox (with the help of Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension) that fixes the bug that keeps most people…

Today’s USA Today (May 10) has a 2-page spread on the Halo Graphic Novel; some of the text (but none of the pictures) can be found online on the USA Today website. Anyone who wanted to scan this… we’d be happy to host. 🙂

Normally, we let speculation run its course on our forum – trying to decipher what Bungie meant with some obscure tidbit is more than half the fun, after all. Sometimes, though, the little stuff really gets in the way; our forum has been swamped today, for example, with debates about one of Cortana’s dialogue snippets…

That Finn guy… looks like he dove right in, and pulled out some of the choicest morsels in the forum for the Story Page. Good stuff in there!

BARBARIC RAGE ran across a Flickr photo, shot last October (a Halloween costume?) of a really nice-looking Master Chief costume. Check it out!

Stuntmutt’s secrets, revealed, in today’s One One Se7en.

More news that has nothing to do with Halo 3: Broken Console, the team behind ‘The Squadron’, has released Conquest, Part 1. It’s a pretty massive piece of work; 21 minutes long, more than 120 mb in hi-res format – it tells the story of an attack on a pair of UESC ships, the Conquest…

So… if you like the screenshots over at Bungie.net, but feel like they’re not hi-res enough (they’re only 1280×720, after all), or you’re unhappy with the Bungie watermark… swing by the Xbox.com Press site, and grab the official press screenshots (70 mb, zipped). What do you get for those 70 megs? You get the 5…

There’s a bit of totally non-Halo-3-related news, as well, today – for example, Toynews International reports on an upcoming exclusive action figure – a Halo 2 White Multiplayer Elite; only 3000 will be made. You can only buy this, though, if you show up at the San Diego Comic-Con in July (though if there are…

There are a whole bunch of sites offering mirroring or re-encoding of the Halo 3 trailer; I really don’t see a need to list them all, because the official sites (Bungie.net and Xbox.com) are doing an admirable job of keeping up with demand. (Bungie.net has actually re-released the WMP9 versions, because the original ones had…

Predictably, the forum has exploded with speculation about yesterday’s released trailer. Much of the discussion could be considered spoiler-laden, for folks either avoiding the trailer or still in the dark about the first two games… but I’m of the opinion that there’s nothing here that Bungie doesn’t want you to see. A few intriguing threads…

Of the three lucky winners of the Dean LAN fest raffle, only ONE has replied! So please, Brian Kirchhoff and Ben Thompson, check your email and get in touch with me! If I don’t hear from you soon, you will forfeit your prize!

For what it’s worth: The Halo 3 content at Bungie.net is available. (Up until now, clicking any of the links in the Top Story or on B.net’s home page simply redirected to the home page… but the section is now live.) The screenshots are all from the trailer (though they’re considerably clearer than screengrabs), and…

Swing by Bungie.net – now back up, and with a pretty amazing top story. The announcement trailer is available for all – in QT and WMP9 formats (with more options coming soon, looks like) – plus Screenshots, Storyboards, Wallpapers, a new FAQ, an About page, and a new forum. WONGA. Go take it all in.…

For the 360 owners out there, there are even MORE goodies for you – a new Halo 3 theme and gamerpics to match. Go look.