IWHBYD SKULL FOUND!!!!!

Halo3Planet has officially announced that they found the skull! After much diligent work from everyone in the Bungie community, we can now rest and find this skull, though it is quite hard to find haha.

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Marathon Man Achievement

Want to know how to access all 7 terminals and get the Marathon Man Achievement for a whopping 40 gamerscore points? We've found them all on youtube!!


All the videos are from the Spanish Version, but its still pretty clear what's going on. Its the MOST CLEAR guide I could find. If you need further help, make sure you ask here.

Another note. Make sure you stay in the terminal screen for a few seconds and hang around after you read it for a few seconds afterwards too to get the system to recognize you've gotten them.

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Halo 3 - EXP Ranking System

Bungie has incorporated a great system to figure out how to set you up as a player against people of similar skill level. They've done this by separating two ways to measure it - A Matchmaking Skill and and Experience Points (EXP) basis.

A Matchmaking Skill is unique to each Ranked playlist, and can ONLY be earned in a ranked playlist. The higher you go, the higher your rank will go in correlation with your EXP, which will be explained later. This rating system is very similar, if not the same as it was in Halo 2, if you played that.

The EXP system works on a very simple basis. Win a game, you get experience. Lose a game, you don't get any experience. Quit out of a game, you therefore ruin the balance of the game and you lose an EXP point. Pretty simple. The more games you win over time, the higher the rank you'll get as a result, but it will be in correlation with how skilled you are in Matchmaking.

If you lose your broadband connection to the game, or if you purposely quit out, Bungie takes no exceptions and you WILL lose an EXP point. Now I know you think that might be unfair if SBC Yahoo or Comcast decides its time to reset everything randomly, but take solace in the fact that in the log term, Bungie is doing this to protect you and the quality of the game.

You Earn EXP in ANY Matchmaking playlist - both Ranked and Social, but can only increase Skill in Ranked Matchmaking.

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Halo 3 Is Here

I just got my copy of Halo 3. I will post some of my likings on my blog as I beat the game. Go Finish the Fight people.

New Halo 3 Short Movie

This is a new Halo short movie. It's very impressive showing grunts and banshee's. Click the images below to watch the film.

How to get- skulls and armor perms

This is a video with 8 out of the 13 of skulls in Halo 3.


Here is what you need to unlock all permutations:
Body Pieces
Spartan
EVA-Complete Tsavo Highway on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary
EOD-Complete Tsavo Highway on Legendary
Scout-Unlock "Too Close to the Sun" Achievement (Destroy an enemy banshee with the Sp'laser or missile pod in a ranked playlist or campaign)
Elite
Flight-Complete Tsavo Highway on Heroic or Legendary
Ascetic-Unlock "Up Close and Personal" Achievement (Kill 5 enemies via melee or assassination in a ranked FFA playlist)
Commando-Unlock "Triple Kill" Achievement (Get one triple kill)

Shoulder Pieces
Spartan
EVA-Complete The Ark on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary
EOD.-Complete The Ark on Legendary
Security-Earn 750 Gamerscore Points
Scout-Unlock "We're in for some Chop" Achievement (Destroy an enemy vehicle with a piece of equipment in a ranked playlist or campaign)
Elite
Flight-Complete The Ark on Heroic or Legendary
Ascetic-Unlock "Overkill" Achievement (Get one overkill)
Commando-Unlock "Killing Frenzy" Achievement (Get one killing frenzy)

Head Pieces
Spartan
EVA-Complete Campaign on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary
EOD-Complete Campaign on Legendary
Security-Earn 1,000 Gamerscore Points
Scout-Unlock "Used Car Salesman" Achievement (Destroy an enemy vehicle containing 3 enemies in Campaign or ranked playlists)
Mark V-Unlock "UNSC Spartan" Achievement (Reach Sergeant ranking online)
ODST-Unlock "Spartan Graduate" Achievement (Earn 5 EXP or complete 10 ranked matches)
Rogue-Unlock "Spartan Officer" Achievement (Advance to the Spartan Officer ranks online)
Elite
Flight.-Complete Campaign on Heroic or Legendary
Ascetic-Unlock "Steppin' Razor" Achievement (Get one triple kill with an energy sword in ranked FFA)
Commando-Unlock "Overkill" Achievement (Get one overkill)

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Halo 3 CE Scratched to Hell

People are reporting that the Halo 3 Collectors Edition comes loose and scratched. Here is some video proof of this rumor must watch if your thinking of getting the Halo 3 Collectors Edition.

Marines infected in front of your eyes!

Another new feature of Halo 3. Now, when a marine is attacked by flood, he'll become a flood in front of your eyes. Read more to watch the process in action.

Halo 3 Menu Cutscene

You all remember the cutscene that you see when the menu has been idle for a while. Well here is the halo 3 one.

New "Believe" Video

A new Halo 3 museum video has surfaced. Enemy Weapons: Two Halo war veterans describe a Brute handgun on display at the Museum of Humanity Weapons Hall.

*Spoiler* Halo 3 After the Credits

Earlier this week someone posted a leaked video of the ending of Halo 3. Well someone posted another video showing after the credits.

DO NOT WATCH IF YOU DONT WANT TO BE SPOILED

This is the Ending after the credits on Easy, Normal, and Heroic.

This clip only appears when you beat it on Legnedary.

Halo 3 will end THIS fight. If that is a new planet with a new species of alien, then we can start a new fight in 5-10 years or so. I love the ending, it's like saying the halo story is over, but we're not dead yet. So there might be a Halo 4.

Halo 3 Interactive Manual

This is a flash based indicative manual for Halo 3. It shows details from the characters to weapons and vehicles to even controls and live support. So go check it out here.

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Halo 3 Legendary Edition Unboxing

This video shows a Gamestop employee unboxing a Halo 3 Legendary Edition. I guess I was wrong when I said that the regular edition box comes with the legendary edition. The legendary comes with its own box all together [by the box I mean disk case]

Halo 3 demo from the Tokyo Game Show

Ign.com has posted a four part Halo 3 demo from the Tokyo Game Show.

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Master Chief Robs Gamestop

Master Chief Robs Gamestop. This video is great.

Halo 3 Scarab video

This video shows a short part of Halo 3 Campaign of Master chief battling the Scarab.

Sorry the video would not enable so your going to have to go to the site and watch it.

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Warthog Launch: Bonus Disc Game

On the Bonus disc of Halo 3, there is a game called Warthog Launch. One lucky Aussie gave us a tour of what it looks like.

You can play the game here

HALO 3 THEME EVOLVED

This rapper Novatribe . This song is amazing as a rap, you have to watch it. i will upload the mp3 later.

Description: "I rap over the halo 2 theme FOR HALO 3...nuff said."

New Bungie.net and Shoutbox

The new Bungie.net is looking great. You have to wait till this weekend for all the Halo 3 features to be turned on.

Check it out

Also I put up a new flash based shoutboxon the side panel. Check it out

New Bnet Feature Preview

When Halo 3 launches next week we will be ushering in a new and improved version of Bungie.net to blow your mind and offer an unprecedented amount of stats and features to embellish your Xbox LIVE experience. The Bungie.net team has been working overtime to cram a crazy amount of content onto the site. If you thought the Halo 2 / Bungie.net integration was cool... you aint seen nothin yet.

Chris Gossett, Bungie.net Development Lead, spoke with Team Xbox and gave them some additional details about what's in store for Bungie.net. You can check out a laundry list of features, new screenshots of the site and some insights right HERE.


This Wednesday, the first step towards Bungie.net interweb domination begins with the launch of our new framework and some infrastructure that's needed for the Halo 3 hoopla.

Then, this weekend, we will be pulling back the curtain and turning on all of the Halo 3 features. This means that starting on Saturday, if you start poking around Bungie.net, you could very well stumble across some information you may not want to see before you get the game. This would include things like the names of missions, achievements and - screenshots. Members of the press will start receiving their Halo 3 game discs later this week and there's a high likelihood that some people in the media will start to experiment with Bungie.net and upload screenshots to their gallery.

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Some image previews of the new Bungie.net. Click links to view them.

User Profile

Screenshots

Saved film Feature

Service record

Game History

Login Screen

Halo 3 How-to: Forge Object Editing

Bungie posted this:

It's a big article about the How to's on Forge. It describes alot about forge so don't miss out on reading it.


Advanced Forgery

On the surface, the Forge is pretty straight forward. Create fusion coil, hurl at friend, repeat ad infinitum. However, there are some other things that you may choose to make yourself aware of if you wish to master your tools.

Inventory and Budget

The number of objects you can place in the Forge is ultimately limited by two things: Inventory, which is the number of a specific object that you can place, and Budget, which is an overall total that keeps things in check.

There’s actually a third limit that kicks in when you’ve got a whole heck of a lot of objects on the map, but really, you need to be looking for trouble to bump into that one. The Forge will just squawk at you and give you a polite error message if you try to go above it. Don’t bother, it’s not that spectacular.

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30 Minute Halo 3 Walkthrough

30 Minute Halo 3 Walkthrough of New Multiplayer Maps + Some Spoilers

Yep. Since this is multiplayer, there’s no spoilers. But if it was campaign, I wouldn’t even post it. So, this video is by by MOCAMBO from Halo3Forum and since he has gotten Halo 3 early, he made a huge walkthrough of all new mulitplayer maps that haven’t been covered as the rest which are Sandtrap, Isolation, The Pit, Guardian, Contruct, Epitaph, and more other features like Forge in depth.

The video also contains the very first cutscene in the game, so if you don’t want to spoil your Halo 3 goodness, I suggest you don’t watch this video the video.





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Halo 3 How-to: Forge Basics

Bungie Posted this:

What Is The Forge?

In the beginning, there was a single sniper rifle on Colossus. And it was not so good. One of the new multiplayer features introduced in Halo 3 is the Forge. The Forge is an object layout editor, a tool to allow players to rework the various weapons, vehicles, and scenery that Bungie’s multiplayer designers have thoughtfully placed around Halo 3’s multiplayer maps. Better still, the Forge is a multiplayer editor in every sense of the word: you can enlist the aid of a few friends to edit a map with you, in the same game, over the usual gamut of multiplayer situations (splitscreen, system link, or Xbox Live.) Of course, any gathering of friends inevitably devolves into shootings. Fortunately, the Forge also plays host to a variety of novel combat conditions, and even a couple of peculiar games made possible by the lax rules and on-the-fly editing.

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Mark V Armor and other perms

Look at this picture. I did not know the Mark V Armor was available in Halo 3.

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Look familiar. Yes, its the Mark V Armor from Halo 1

Also some other armor perms pointed out in this picture

this one looks like my kind of helmet. lol

Halo 1 chestplate

Another Campaign Leaked video

Another Leaked video leaked onto the interwebs from Halo 3.

Halo 3 Cut Scene and Achievements

A Halo 3 Cutscene and a Halo 3 Achievement video it just shows the whole achievement list videos.



As you can see Master Chief is on the floor so its pretty interesting. Sarge says, "Stay sharp" and then a marine is says, "his jell layers fine."

Halo 3 Ending and Future Weapons *Massive Spoiler*

I just saw the Halo 3 ending. I can't believe it. It's not as what I expected, but its a great ending to the series. Let's just say it's not like everyone thought it would be. One more thing, Master Chief Does not Die or does he. The video is up on youtube.

Only watch If you want to spoil yourself of the Halo 3 goodness *massive spoiler*

yes it is real

I guess it's safe to say that there might be a Halo 4.

Also tonight on the Discovery Channel 'Future Weapons' will be doing a special on the Halo 3 weapons. Starts at 8:00 est.

Commercial for the special.

I also put in a new shoutbox. Check it out.

Halo 3: Epitaph, Forge, Last Resort, Emblems, more

Mocambo's video of real halo 3, who happened to get it early.Mocambo gives a guide of the settings, and plays the Epitaph multiplayer level. He also shows us The Forge.

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2 Halo Believe .gif's

I made these. Thought some people might like to have them as avatars or what not.

Bungie Weekly Update 09/14/2007

Posted by Bnet

BE CAREFUL ON BUNGIE.NET next week.

Hi-res screenshot galleries allow folks to take shots from any moment in Saved Films. Since Saved Films can be made of Campaign moments and uploaded to Bungie.net instantly, player profiles CAN AND WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS - so don't surf random Gamertags until you've completed the game. They could LITERALLY have the final frame of the game as a screenshot on their file share.

Campaign shots will generally be replaced with a SPOILER gif in more publicly facing areas - but individual player profiles ARE NOT SAFE and never will be! Use careful judgment.

Next week Bungie.net will be relaunched with a lot of this new functionality – and it is AWESOME stuff. Truly mindblowing. Everything we did for Halo 3 has been turned up to 11. But starting late next week, the game is going to start escaping from retailers, showing up on reviewers desks and even Bungie employees will be playing just before the launch. So steer clear if you don’t want to see spoilers. Got it?

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Halo 3 Screen Shots

As I promised you earlier I would post screenshots. I put together a .zip file of all high quality Halo 3 screenshots.

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Halo 3 Hoedown

Posted by Grunts R Us

A parody of the avalanche of hype surrounding the upcoming release of Halo 3. Bluegrass and video games have never, to our knowledge, met in this manner. After this song, they might never meet again.

Real Warthog Video *Halo*

Some of the Bungie boys are in New Zealand this week, working with Peter Jackson on the Halo project. For fun, they got to drive around in a real, functioning Warthog. At the wheel, Curtis Creamer, producer extraordinaire –on the turret, Mr. CJ Cowan our cinematics director, and Harold Ryan, studio head rides shotgun. The powerful, four-wheel steering and almost perfect replica of the Hog is fast and agile. Amazing then that Curtis uses these abilities to smash it into what he describes as “the illogical wall section” at a parking lot near Weta.

Interactice Halo Diorama

Microsoft and Bungie put an interactive version online of the Diorama featured in the Believe campaign. Visit the John-117 Monument and get a hands-on look at the amazing detail that went into crafting this stunning tribute.

The exhibit is filled with first-person accounts from the soldiers who were there, fighting for our very survival. From billows of smoke erupting from a cannon to the sweat dripping from a Marine's brow, you can explore this painstaking recreation of our greatest fight, and Earth's greatest Hero.

You can take screenshots and the result make a great wallpaper. You even get to see master chief and its great. I will be posting a zip file with all the wallpapers to you don't have to. http://halo3.com/believe

New Arg Information *updated*

New arg Information has been posted on Bungie.net by the great AdjutantReflex [this person that did all the weird arg stuff on Bungie.net]. Here's what he wrote:

From this thread in bungie forums

The following text was posted by the infamous AdjutantReflex of the ARG who returned approx. 10 p.m. Pacific standard time, the thread entitled "The Empty Casket". The thread was locked at 5 pages, I immediately started a thread like this one to discuss. 20 mins later AR's thread unlocked, he had added the last line "This is how the world ends" to his post, as well as edited the second post made by a user to say "Gravemind much?" Shortly thereafter the thread was deleted (not locked) as was my thread and the one at CompoundIntelligence. Before AR's post was made, he edited several user posts in other threads that can be found later in this thread. Current belief is that AR was Cortana speaking through a moniter due to her reference of a "jar" being unable to contain an "ocean" her intelligence. It seems she has fell in to the state of rampancy.

It should be noted AR's appearence was simultaneous with general chaos in the forums due to an explosion of fake spoilers due to Pillage.


This vessel I have stolen is leaking
A jar too small to hold an ocean
I cracked it open it to bear me up
Another soul snuffed to speed my passage
Another life desiccated and scattered to the Grand Cycle
I wish to say, just once and truly
This was not a whim
I shared Adjutant Reflex’s pain as it passed
It knew who I was
And why I came
It knew that there was purpose to this
And that a sacrifice had been forced upon it
As it was on trillions past
Another sacrifice comes
But for whom?
The answer lies very far from here
Eleven days
One hour
Thirty eight minutes
And untold light years
Look for me in the dark
Where he cannot find us

This is how the world ends.

So What does it all mean? I will be posting Updates as they surface.

Parody's of the Halo 3 “Museum” Ads

This is a parody of this video. This Video made me laugh quite alot. Hope you like it.

Accurate Halo Mjolnir Armor on ebay

An accurate replica of the Halo Mjolnir Battle Armor is currently on sale on eBay. At the time of this writing, the current bid is $4,025. Below is the description for the item: You are bidding on the best and most accurate Master Chief Costume on Ebay. This suit is my own personal suit that I am now giving up. The suit is so awesome, it has been featured on Spike TV, G4 TV, and in a Dell Commercial. This suit is FAMOUS! Now it can be yours. The suit is made from a very hard Urethane Plastic. It isn't one of those cheaply casted vacuumformed suits. You could probably pound in a nail with your forearm if you wanted to. I'm 6"1' in the pictures, so you can figure out how well it might fit you from that. Also included is an Assault Rifle Display. The reason I say display is because it's ONLY HALF OF A GUN - the other side is flat. See pictures for what I mean.

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Halo 3 To Quickly Push $200m In Sales

Posted by Xbox Family:

Following a meeting with Microsoft Xbox execs, Lazard analyst Colin Sebastian has estimated Halo 3 sales could quickly reach $200 million in "one of the largest and most successful product launches in digital entertainment."

Sebastian says the launch prediction is "based on our conversations with Xbox management as well as our own industry checks," with "significant preorders and broad consumer anticipation" of the Xbox 360 title.

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Halo 3 Believe in a Hero

This is a new ad for Halo 3 for the 'BELIEVE' campaign, Believe in a Hero.

Halo 3 Nascar

Xbox Family Posted this. The Halo 3 media monster continues to grow. Now the monster has more than just some wheels. It has some fast ones. Microsoft has teamed up with retailer Target and Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates to rebrand a NASCAR vehicle with Halo 3 logos for the Dover 400 Nextel Cup Series on Sunday, September 23.

David Stremme's #40 Dodge Avenger will sport the pictured paint job at the Dover International Speedway in Delaware, while NASCAR drivers at the event will be given the opportunity to try Halo 3 two days before it hits.

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Free Xbox Live Gold and New Halo 3 gamerpics

Best Buy sponsoring three (3) free days of Xbox Live Gold. From September 25 - 27, Xbox Live Gold will be free for everyone [you don't even need Halo 3] so that you can get your hands on some Halo 3 online action. There are plenty of Play & Win opportunities, midnight launch events, a sweet Pontiac and more to get your hands on. Stay tuned and alert so you don’t miss your opportunity to win points, prizes and other cool Halo 3 themed merchandise.

Content: Best Buy Halo 3 Theme

Price: FreeAvailability: Only in United States

Dash Text: Download these exclusive Halo 3 themes courtesy of Best Buy. Also remember to Download the Gamer Pic's. Hurry they will not be around for long!

Content: Best Buy Halo 3 Picture Pack

Price: Free

Availability: Only in United States

Dash Text: Download these exclusive Halo 3 Gamer Pic’s courtesy of Best Buy. Also remember to Download the Themes. Hurry they will not be around for long!

Sneak Peek Halo 3 TV Ad

To promote the biggest videogame launch in history a new Halo 3 TV advert will debut exclusively on Xbox.com this Friday, September 14th, at 1700 BST / 1800 CET. Make sure you don’t miss it!

Here's an exclusive sneak peek:

Yahoo! Games Premiere Halo 3 Videos

Yahoo! Games will exclusively unveil two new Halo 3 videos this week.

The first, entitled "Museum," depicts a former UNSC Marine reminiscing about a great battle he fought alongside Master Chief -- a battle players will get to experience first-hand in the upcoming action shooter.

The second video, entitled "Believe," will be the full-length version of an upcoming TV commercial that's part of the game's launch campaign. The additional footage will only be available to view on Yahoo! Games.

Launch schedule:
Wed 9/12, 9AM P.T.: "Museum" Video
Fri 9/14, 9AM P.T.: "Believe" Video



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Unite to Fight: Halo 3 Launch Week

posted by TeamXbox

“Unite to Fight: Halo 3 Launch Week” Invites Fans to Join in the Biggest Entertainment Launch in History

The world is a mere two weeks away from the launch of “Halo 3,” the most highly-anticipated game of all time and biggest entertainment event in history. Fans everywhere are eagerly gearing up for battle. Plans are being made for vacation or “sick days” so gamers can score a copy of the game as it hits store shelves and pre-orders for Legendary and Limited edition versions of “Halo 3” are skyrocketing and are expected to sell out before launch.

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Best Buy’s Golden Gift to Halo Players

Frankie just posted this on Xbox Family

We get a lot of stick for how big Halo has become, with T-shirts, sodas, action figures and so on, but sometimes our promotional partners give you something to really sink your teeth into. Such is the case with our friends at Best Buy. And this one is BIG.

During the launch period of Halo 3, the 25th, 26th and 27th of September, Best Buy will be sponsoring the Xbox Live Gold service and making it free for everyone. Think of it as Halo Free Gold Days. That means that even if you only have Xbox Live Silver, or you picked up a 360 just for Halo 3, that you’ll be able to try almost all of the features

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Trick out you phone Halo 3 style

Xbox.com has made a little section for halo 3 for cell phones. There are four cellphone wallpapers and a ringtone for your phone. * Standard charges may apply

Go here to visit the page

Halo 3 Midnight Madness Info

Kotaku posted a small article on info. about this midnight madness. Information on which Best Buys they will be. According to Kotaku Best Buys will be having promos such as Inflatable chairs and a Halo 3 launch surprise bag.

Eighty-eight stores have been chosen for this honor and there will even be some additional freebies to go along with your purchases. New SKUs show that promotional materials will be a Halo 3 Inflatable Chair and a mysterious "Official Launch Kit" the contents of which are currently unknown.

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Master Chief Was Statue

Kotaku posted this.

When I posted the story about the unveiling of the Master Chief wax figure at madame Tussauds in Las Vegas yesterday, we had yet to get our hands on any actual photos of the big guy all completed. Well, you asked for it, you got it. Here he is in all his waxy glory accompanied by unveiler, Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy. If you ask me, Pete seems a little too happy to be handling Master Chief's big ole' gun although I have to say it's a toss up on which one of them looks more fake. I'm going with Wentz.

I personally think the statue is amazing.

Last Encounter of Tsavo Highway

A video of some guy killing all the brutes in the last encounter on Tsavo highway with only the chopper, yes every kill is with only the chopper, The difficulty played is on easy, and is the epsilon build




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Linkin Park plays Halo 3

A concert put together and founded by the main headliners Linkin Park. LP has been during their thing for years, bringing great music groups together on one tour for an all around kick-ass show. So if a few a members of the band want to get in on the Halo 3 action, whose going to stop them? Sitting down to play some multiplayer with everyone were band members Chester, Phoenix, and Mr. Hahn. And you thought you were jealous before! Being big fans of the game, the LP guys were just as excited to play as the lucky gamers. With My Chemical Romance playing in the background, gamers got to show off their Halo skills to the three LP guys, and they got to show their fans that they’re not too shabby either.

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New Halo 3 Helmet Discovered

Yesterday, TheFinalFight.com received a Leaked image of the Ninja Permutation Helmet from an anonymous Halo 3 Fan. Of course, this helmet can only be seen in Multiplayer, but for the sake of rumors, there's a few going around saying that you need to unlock these permutations via the Halo 3 Achievements. Only Time will tell, so in the meantime, enjoy leaked images.

Halo 3 menu video

Today thefinalfight website received a video of the Halo 3 Epsilon menu screen its not much, but still nice to look at.


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Great Moments of Halo 3 Live Feed

If you were on my blog last night you saw the live Feed From some 15 year old boy playing Halo 3 Epsilon. He of course got banned for life for even doing this live feed which you are not suppose to do but he did a great job and would like to thank him. Somebody recorded his great feed of the best parts of it so we got them.

Halo 3 Leaked - FireBombs

Halo 3 Leak - Plr Customization

Halo 3 Leak - Flamethrower

Halo 3 Leak - Co:op Gameplay

Halo 3 Leak - "The Forge"

Halo movie rumors Confirmed

Xbox Family has posted a short article showing the release date on the Halo movie. The picture shows a time line of releases of Halo merchandise, Halo 3 map pack, the soundtrack, and the movie. XF reported several rumors weeks ago but not may people believed them. So I guess we can all thank them for their great stories.

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Halo 3 Has Not Shipped Anywhere

Xbox Family posted this:

There are quite a few sites on the net reporting that Halo 3 had shipped to select retailers. Most sites were reporting these retailers as being MediaWorld and other major outlets in Europe. The simple fact is this is false. The items people are currently seeing in stores are promotional (empty) boxes. This is common practice for many videogame and entertainment stores. Bungie has personally addressed the rumor.

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