i say they're gonna turn the statue of liberty into Master Chief

Halo 3? Isn't that a flavor of Mountain Dew?

@VenoMuS:

that would be the funniest thing ever

I can't wait for this to be over and many people are playing it and no longer talking about it coming out.

This is really going to make it harder to get my copy of Animal Genius for the DS that day

After all the posts about halo this waaaaa halo that. Get some balls Kotaku.

@VenoMuS: haha would love to see that.

Halo 3 games now fill the #1, 2, 4 spot on Amazon top list and are selling out. Can wait to see the number of sales. It's fun. It's just fun.

Sure Fahey. You'll be the only one there, my ass. I figured out your little secret; I know they're going to reveal Master Chief's true identity to be...a Kotaku staffer. Which one, you ask? Well, the only reliable physical description we have comes from the Red vs. Blue Season 1 DVD, where Sarge describes seeing the Chief, sans his helmet:

"I'd seen him from across the way, and I could tell he was a commanding figure. Oh he stood nearly seven foot six feet tall. He had dark brown skin and uh, chocolatey flowing hair, that was the kind of thing that would make a man giggle to himself in the night."

Sure, lots of people lot like that, but don't you find it a little odd that of all things, Sarge would focus on the Chief's hair? These are clues about his character!

So then I thought, who do I know that fit the description, held a secret hairstyling job, and was whisked away by Bungie (who briefs and outfits him), whilst his minions unload Halo propaganda faster than bees spread pollen? Just a string of coincidences? I think not.

That's right folks:
Hail to the Chief, Spartan and savior, our very own Brian Crecente.

Hey, someone's at the door...

Keep the Halo 3 posts coming.

@Elly: i dont know why, but your post made me want a chimichanga.

You know, not everyone is excited by Halo 3 there Fahey :P Sure, it'll be a solid FPS, but that's about it really. Cynical? Me? Oh yes, indeed.

I'm working a day this weekend so I can have the 25th off.

Why is that, you ask? Because:

@DarkOwl: Wha'dya mean? EVERYBODY IS EXCITED ABOUT HALO 3.

Thats why its everywhere! Burger stands! Sodas! Interpretive dance! Cars! Maybe one day they will make a video game about.

Wait a minute.

Ugh.. a perfectly good joke ruined by my inability to type.

'...make a video game about IT.'

*sigh*

The Halo 3 retailer wars are crazy.

Future Shop is giving away Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer(360) for free with the purchase of Halo 3. At Best Buy you get a Halo t-shirt, army camo headset, and a big master-chief wall decal thingy.

I'll be going to Best Buy! I think I'll live without that crappy Fantastic Four game.

I'm not sure what EB is giving away. Probably a cheap hat.

@Elly:
I applaud your dedication to that comment, well done.

Finish the Fahey... Thats just... odd...
Almost want to head up there, get some autographs, looking at you Fahey, as I too am sport ignorant, speaking of which, why athletes?
When I think Halo I think Mountain Dew, Xbox, cars, hilarious videos, cat helmets and sugar cookies (not sure why on that one)
And now Athletes are involved?! Why? I don't see Football and Halo blending... Oh my God, their planning something aren't they...

@Citan359: Cat helmets! I'd forgotten about that. Now I feel even better about my photochop. Layers of comedy! Layers!

Well, here are my Halo 3 plans:

If I can't make it to the midnight launch, I will get home from school, arriving to a medium-sized, blue box with a glowing three on the lid. With the fervor of a lion at the slaughter, I will tear the box open, exposing a modest green helmet concealing the Holy Grail of video games. In its wake, I will hop in glee, squealing like a girl. And for (presumably) ten hours straight, I will be either satisfied or disappointed by the fruits of three years of labor.

@argh:
The EBGames here in Winnipeg gave me a Halo 3 T-Shirt when I gave some of my old old old old old GCN games today. I was supposed to get it two weeks ago when I traded in Blue Dragon, but they didn't have their shirts in, so..

I dunno if all EBGames in Canada are like that.

This is the last hoot for the Xbox 360; After Halo 3; it's pretty much over. It's over already in Japan. It still hasn't reached the 12 million unit projection it was supposed to reach in June. The more expensive PS3 has been selling at a faster and steadier pace in the same time frame as the Xbox 360 in it's first year.

Enjoy Halo 3 and the Xbox 360 while you can; the life span of the 360 is going to be no different than the original Xbox. It's pretty much dead after Halo 3.

@Kotaku:

"It's time to announce Kotaku's super-secret, hyper-exciting plans for the biggest game launch of the year!"

Hey, Super Smash Bros Brawl isn't out until December 3rd; you didn't have to announce those plans so soon.

...:-P

See you there Mike - I'll be (at least one of the guys) with armor on!!!!!

@scratch: Why hasn't anyone told me this sooner?! Now I'm going to have to cancel my order for a giant 360-themed "Mission Accomplished" banner. :( :( :(

@scratch: Can it be over after Mass Effect? I'm looking forward to it, so can we postpone it till then?

And if after Halo 3 it's 'over' for the 360, when's the PS3 going to 'begin'?

*ZING*

@scratch:

You sound like some kind of super villain, but behind all the drama, your really just a pathetic fanboy troll and an angry one at that. Forget about all your irrational hatred for Microsoft and join in on the Halo fun. It's gonna be great.

@Brynj: And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

@VenoMuS: It's the hair palace man.

@mahi: We'll just take yours. Please answer when we knock.

Seriously, I am tired of typing up Halo 3 item after Halo 3 item, but we'd be remiss if we didn't cover what is essentially the most hyped game launch ever. Besides, New York has Slurpees.

@Elly: Great comment Elly I lol`d thats for sure.

LOL; sounds like I hit a nerve; truth hurts man. Sony didn't even bother to announce a price drop; no need to drop price in the face of hype. It's funny how Microsoft sent ships into harbor to try to combat the launch of the PS3 in Europe. They did so because they were worried; Sony nor Nintendo has to resort to such tactics. It's the last hoot for Microsoft before they start throwing the dirt over the 360 whose lifespan and install base which will be shorter than it's original Xbox.

@scratch: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne

I'll go into the symbolism a bit more instead of just hinting at it. Microsoft is a part of the gaming industry, and if the 360 was "killed" like you (bizarrely) expect it to be, it would hurt the industry as a whole. Competition promotes advancement and innovation. For every gaming console that dies, the game industry dies a little bit too, which is the allusion I'm trying to make by quoting John Donne. A lot of people really enjoy the games coming out for PSN; do you think it would exist at this point if Microsoft hadn't blazed the trail with XBLA? Do you think Sony's gaming division would even exist if Nintendo hadn't gone forward with the SNES? Do you think Nintendo would have put as much effort into the SNES if not for the Sega Genesis?

Hoping for any console to die is selfish to the point that you're actually hurting yourself in the long run. The games you know and love are like the fruit of the tree of gaming, if you will, and the companies that make those games are the roots. As those roots die off, the fruit withers and dies as well. There is competition between these companies, but not in a way that should lead to one claiming total victory. I'm a 360 fan but I definitely wouldn't want it to win by a total landslide like the PS2 managed last generation. I'm actually really happy with how close the race has been so far.

If you love video games and hate Microsoft, or Sony, or Nintendo, or anyone else striving to advance the medium, then ultimately you hate yourself just a little bit, because these companies and all us gamers are interconnected. There is no us vs. them take-no-prisoners battle for survival going on here. It's a big game, and games are more fun when the scores are close.

Dude; i'm not hoping for the death of any console; I'm just not with all the fake hype and smoke and mirrors that Microsoft has brought to this generation of gaming; they tried to buy their way to legitamacy; C'mon man famitsu giving Halo those hight scores is an injustice to their loyal fanbase/readers. The television show G4 is sickening; they should just have an xbox logo in the background throughout the entire broadcast. The lack of reporting that the blogs do on any other console is because of the kickbacks and advertising dollars microsoft is throwing at them in order to buy their way into legitamacy.
And then speaking of how far ahead Microsoft is and comparing it to systems barely a year old that have sold half as much or more in same ammount of time.

Sorry bud; Microsoft is bad for the gaming industry. If sega would have continued to make hardware there wouldn't be an xbox or xbox 360.
Online console gaming is the result of Segas dreamcast grandfathering it in, not Microsoft and what they did with it afterward and it wasn't anything that wasn't already being done on PCs.
I played online and downloaded game demos, movies, tv shows and music way before xbox live and I didn't have to pay for emulation.
Sorry man, I'm not a believer of the hype; i wasn't a believer when they came out with the original xbox nor this time around with the xbox 360. No way is it going to come close in sales of the original one. Not even with all the Halo hype.

Microsoft can continue to shuck and jive and wine and dine the editors of blogs sites, the media (print and digital) but it'll all go down in flames soon enough.

I say bring Sega back from the dead; we need it now more than ever................

(stunned silence)

This is Prinny 1 requesting a fire mission on the following coordinates over.

@scratch: Wow.. i liked Sega but i think you're on crack. MS isn't out to ruin anything. In fact microsoft has enabled games that every other console company/publisher has chosen to ignore.

Get over yourself.

@scratch:
Dude, didn't you hear your Mom tell you to take your meds. I swear, when you get off them it's like I'm talking to a stranger or something. Anyways, call me back later. Brian wants us to setup the D&D game after his mom leaves with her new boyfriend. It's gonna rock!

@scratch: Oh, I remember you now! You were the one that said Lair "doesn't disappoint" and that Bioshock is a snoozefest!

You are one crazy kid, hahah. Had me going there. Agree to disagree? ;)

@Scartch

Im sorry you watch G4.

@scratch: Sony Defense Force is that way, sir. ----->

Oh right, psych ward is a bit more to the right.

See I assumed the big surprise would be that they were lying all these months. It's all been an elaborate hoax friends, there is no Halo 3. Leaked videos were made just to fool us into believing that bungie had been working on halo all year. Truly the will be revealing pony friends two:the mane squeeze.

@Toasticus:
He also said Microsoft is paying publishers to delay PS3 games. It maybe paranoid schizophrenia.

Right everyone voting scratch to get banned next time it pops up? Relax man, games are about fun not fighting a non existent war.

I think he already is banned.

Lets hear it for long range fire support!

Hoo-Rah!

Time to move on people, nothing more to see here.

I hope scratch isn't banned. I get a good laugh out of his comments!

Woah, nice air-strike Witzbold. *cough*

And yeah, competition = good.

I just realised "Scratch" and "Itchy" are kinda similar, but I'm in no way affiliated with that SDF-boy.

Just thought I'd make that clear.

@JoopTang: Scratch that Halo 3 is now number 1, 2, 3 on Amazon bestsellers list. For the love of god will it do over 3 mil on the first day?