Its time to submit your comments for our next show; Goodbye Halo 2: Farewell Old Friend. What we are looking for is your most memorable moments with Halo 2.

Examples:

· The night Halo 2 was released, where were you and how did you feel when you finally got your hands on the game.

· Tell us the longest session you ever had with Halo 2.

· Your favorite moments with the single player and multi-player.

· The things you hated the most about Halo 2.

· What will you miss the most about Halo 2?

You don’t have to follow that format. We encourage you to submit anything you want, as long as it remains on topic. This will be a very big episode, so lets make it a great one.

Also, this marks the very LAST episode we will exclusively talk about Halo 2, the game that created the foundation for the Podtacular community. Halo 2 was a part of our lives for so long, so lets give it a proper farewell party.

Send in your submissions to podtacular@gmail.com

As soon as possible being, in this case, already. Francesca Reyes, Editor-in-Chief of Official Xbox Magazine, has already played through the entire Halo 3 single-player campaign, and her ten page review will hit the streets in the next edition of OXM, day and date with the game.

Technically nobody’s supposed to say a word about the game, but GamesRadar managed to get her to say a few words about how she felt after she finished playing:

I think I was kind of in a state of shock for most of it, especially after I finished the campaign. I was happy, yes – but it didn’t really hit me until I was back in San Francisco and eating a big bowl of ramen at some neighborhood joint. I sat there at the table with my bowl of ramen and a copy of Wired (the one with Master Chief on the cover which I bought for the flight home) – and I thought to myself: Wow. I can’t believe I just did something that hundreds of thousands of people have been waiting years to do.

Thanks Major Silva for the heads-up in the HBO forum.

Hawty McBloggy compiled a list of top ten things to do while Xbox Live is down, (it’s back up already) while GameDaily has a list of top ten things to do before Halo 3 comes out.

Just remember, this isn’t really Halo news, just an amazing NBC simulation. The items range from the practical (sleeping) to the commercial (buy gamefuel) and from the sublime (live action oddball) to the ridiculous (live action teabagging).

Louis Wu posted up the former list, and Avateur pointed out the latter in the HBO forum.

Tex went to pay off the last installment of her Halo 3 Legendary Edition preorder and got a couple of unexpected surprises: the early arrival of the new Halo 3-themed wireless controllers, and a special Halo 3 bracelet given out to GameStop employees. Check the Queen of the Hill blog for photos.

You may have read somewhere else already that press reviews of Halo 3 (much like Halo 2 before it) are handled in a somewhat different way than other games. Bungie doesn’t mail out review copies to journalists in advance; if they did, it’s possible the game’s ending would have been spoiled by now. GamePro has an article up that details this alternative procedure.

Just as was done previously in Australia and Europe, next week in North America Bungie will be setting up 24-hour gaming sessions on both coasts; one representative from each invited organization will have access to the entire game, but no one will be allowed to publish a word until September 23.

Thanks Louis Wu for the heads-up on this story at HBO.