Halo 3 officially Goes Gold

Many sites around the net, including XF, have been reporting that Halo 3 had gone gold. This was based on the fact that Frank O'Conner was playing the final version of the game. In typical MS fashion though, they have announced today that Halo 3 has gone gold. Wow, thanks MS. We love your late press releases. Hopefully soon, MS will officially announce the 360 plays games. All kidding aside, read on to see the official press release.




Halo 3 Goes Gold

Most Anticipated Title of 2007 Released to Manufacturing, Begins Final March to Xbox 360

The wait is almost over. “Halo 3,” the final chapter in the groundbreaking “Halo” trilogy and the most anticipated game release of 2007, has been released to manufacturing.

Three years in the making by renowned developer Bungie Studios, “Halo 3” is now finished and will begin its journey to store shelves around the world in less than four weeks. “Halo 3,” which has already set new records as the fastest preordered game in history, has exceeded one million presales in North America alone. The title is set to shatter day-one entertainment sales records when it is released worldwide beginning Tuesday, Sept. 25.

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Red vs Blue moving to Halo 3 pt5 "Moving Day"

Well this is the last of the halo 2 series of Red vs Blue until they completely move to Halo 3 so we all have to wait.

Episode 5
“Moving Day”: Ready to move to Halo 3, the Red and Blue teams pack their things.

Help lift the spirits of a Bungie luminary

From xbox360fanboy.com

"You may not know the name Peter Marks, but if you've played Halo you know his work. Marks was behind one of the most popular multiplayer maps in the game, Hang 'em High. Marks has recently come down with a particularly aggressive form of cancer, and the Bungie community is asking fans to help lift his spirits with words of kindness and encouragement. Halo.Bungie.Org has set up a special website just for people to leave their comments for Peter.

Halo 3 achievements confirmed

One of the only Halo 3 related nuggets-o-info not to be officially confirmed by Bungie yet have been the game's achievements which mysteriously popped up (and later updated) a few months ago. But then there was all this rampant fanboy hubbub around a new set of achievements making their way online, all secret and fueling a rumor that Bungie might have released the first set of Halo 3 achievements as red-herrings. But fanboys, we have video proof that the original set of leaked achievements were spot on and very final. The overly long video above was taken while Bungie's own Frankie was online playing the gold build of Halo 3 and shows an official Xbox 360 guide achievement comparison for Halo 3. And like we said, the achievements are identical to the leaked Halo 3 achievement we've seen before. That's it, we're officially calling the task of trying to find out Halo 3's achievements before release solved and complete.

[via xbox360fanboy]