More people than died on Reach have contacted us about the Game Reactor article – so even though it’s totally unconfirmed at this point, we’re going to mention it, if only to get folks to stop sending us mail about it. Game Reactor, a Danish magazine, has published an article which includes an interview with Peter Moore, Corporate VP of Worldwide Marketing for Microsoft’s Home/Entertainment Division. In it, he states that Halo 3 will be out within a year. (It’s unclear to me whether he means a year from now, or a year from the release of the Xbox360, this fall.) Either way, until someone from Bungie says ‘yep, we’re actually making this’, we’re not going to move this to the ‘confirmed’ column… but we DO know about it, thanks.

The Bungie/XBL Team Halo Humpday Challenge (mentioned yesterday) has been written up by SketchFactor over on Bungie.net. General Tone: Whiney. He does his best to put a positive spin on the Bungie loss… but mostly, it’s pretty clear they got beat. 🙂 The aftermath was pretty funny, though… Looks like first heads-up came from Echoes.

Today’s Halo Babies strip is guest-written, though the artwork is still Gruntsbane’s. Poor Cortana… Thanks, Archaos46.

Hehe – hokeywebb22 came across a pretty fun truck, over at blennus.com…

The Codex, Episode 11, ‘Balance of Power‘, has been posted at the Codex website. A solid episode, plotwise… it explores the relationship between the Praetor and the Cleric. There will be no episode next week; the top news post on the main page explains why. It’s really nice to see a machinima team planning ahead! Go grab this episode today. Thanks, aardvark36.

Captain Spark grabbed another batch of dialogue snippets – you can find them in a zip file on his site, or individually (and searchable) in our Dialogue Databank. He’s beginning to wonder if it’s worth looking for more; diminishing returns, and all that. Chime in!

Mother’s Tooth sent along an interesting email this morning – and I wonder, now, what sort of repercussions this will have in the long run. He’s looking for voice talent to play Miranda in his ‘The Age of Miranda‘ machinima series; he’ll supply a small script (10 words or so) to be recorded and judged. If there are enough applicants, he’ll put it up to the fans; post the clips, let fans pick the best one. (Up front, in case anyone doesn’t realize it – this is NOT a paying gig. It’s for the love of the game, like any other machinima project out there.) If this works out, I could see the idea increasing the quality of voice talent across the board… voice acting is one of the weakest areas of machinima releases to date, and this idea could change that. If you’re interested in applying, contact Mother’s Tooth!

Seems that last night’s Halo Humpday Challenge was against the Xbox Live team – there’s nothing up at Bungie yet, but Major Nelson has posted a quick summary on his blog. XBL took the first two games, the third was a tie. (To be fair, all THREE games were pretty close.) Thanks to Narcogen at Rampancy.net for pointing this out.

Didn’t take long – the first Halo Stats widget for MacOSX 10.4’s Dashboard has been released. You can check your levels in the various gametypes from your desktop. Thanks, Lacsap.

Ooh, that looks nice – According to Joyride, Gamestop will be selling a battle-damaged Warthog in July. There’s also a new version of the Master Chief and an ODST (among other things) coming out in August. Poke around – there’s tons of new ones listed. Thanks, Madda Cheeb2.0.

Mother’s Tooth has posted Episode 2 of his ‘The Age of Miranda‘ series over at That Weasel Television. This one makes use of a mod we mentioned a couple of weeks ago created by TheTykoMan. That poor Miranda – I’m glad I don’t have dreams like that!

XerxdeeJ has started up a new Halo-related blog – this one’s titled ‘Tied The Leader‘. There are a couple of articles up already; the most recent looks at how sportsmanship is related to online anonymity. (Personally, I think Penny Arcade nailed this one last year – but XerxdeeJ’s take, while less pithy, is a tad more in-depth.) Give it a read!

I went into our uploads folder recently to try and clear out the content that needs to be added to the various subsections of the site. I was pretty scared by what I found. Half the submissions came with no identification at all. (We have to toss these.) Many came with random identification; the submission might be ‘mycoolpicture.jpg’, but the file explaining who submitted it might be called ‘for hbo.wpd’ (I can’t even READ wpd files – and if I could, it would mean that I’d have to go through every single one to figure out what goes with what). Even though we have an entire subsection devoted to movies, and another to fanfic, we’re still getting submissions directly uploaded for these sections. There were TONS of scripts uploaded in the hopes of hacking our systems. And on, and on. I’m gonna make it easy for everyone. From now on, there’s only a single ‘Uploads’ link in our navbar. It goes to a page which explains, pretty clearly, what we accept. Read it – or your content will be tossed. You’ll be asked for basic info. Supply it – or your content will be tossed. You’ll then be given the opportunity to upload your file. If you run into trouble, and you’ve followed the directions, go ahead and email us about it… but if you can’t be bothered to read the instructions, don’t expect us to answer you.

Zelp modified his own Forza racer – check out the results! (We mentioned one of these yesterday.) Update: And another one – thanks, Hypnotoad.

Hehe – Uncle Clive (a British gaming site) had its own recommendation for last week’s elections in Britain… it’s currently on the top of the page. Thanks, Lothar Hex.

Today’s One One Se7en explains a gameplay contrivance in a whole new light. No wonder the guy’s filled with rage!

Hehe – nice! 3Suns found a fun Forza custom car that’s pretty Halo-related at Tabwin.com. At the moment, it’s no the front page, 7th row (!!), first column… but if it moves, here’s a direct link. That baby’s probably pretty fast…

mrsmiley updated the art section of the Halo Babies website… and man, there’s some amazing stuff in there! Go check it out – but be sure you have a little while, there’s a LOT!

Dennis Powers points out a post he made at the haloce.gearboxgamezone.com website. There’s been quite a bit of interesting material released recently in the HaloCE community – swing by to read about it, and download it!