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From Louis Wu at HBO comes word that Bungie fan Deanero captured a special presentation of a 13 minute movie by Bungie entitled Evolution of Halo , which we've now mirrored here and at RHL. It was shown at the E3 Fanfest last month, and includes commentary from Bungie employees Shikai Wang, Marty O'Donnell and Paul Russell.

We've just added the recently captured QT5 version (4 Mb, 480x360) of the television commercial for Halo that's been airing in the Canadian market this spring and was captured by Bill and Bob Maguire. Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the notice.

In a forum thread at HBO discussing recent claims that Halo saved game files had been hacked to gain access to infinite ammo and other things, Mat MSN Noguchi had the following to say:

All things considered, I doubt anyone has managed to hack the save file of any game yet.

Besides, there are much easier ways to hack Halo :)

Louis Wu replied that it was mean to say that without providing details, but I think it's safe to say that if there are other easter eggs or exploits left to find, Bungie will probably leave the fans to find them on their own.

GameSpot has a story up about a survey conducted by Greensfield Online. Apparently it contained some questions for consumers about concepts for new Microsoft products. One such product was an Xbox connection kit, which would let Xbox owners connect their systems to a PC for the purpose of accessing MP3s and other files. Apparently the connection would be made via ethernet

Like anything else like this, take the mention with a grain or two of salt-- last time I read anything about it, the audio files in the Xbox were Windows Media Player files and not MP3s.