Matt dropped into the HBO forum to say that some Bungie Store preorders of the Halo Soundtrack had shipped as early as last Friday. So get your orders in!

Gamespot is running a poll on the most-missed E3 no-show, and Halo is an option-- in two flavors, even. Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up.

Matt Soell dropped us a message to let us know that Rob McLees was also one of commentators on the Evolution of Halo video. Rampancy apologizes for the omission.

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:

Barak at RealHaloPlayers has posted a note that Mhaddy's site The Junkyard has gotten a redesign, as well as a whole new backend system that features themes. The site has a Halo page but also covers other games like Tribes. Go take a look!

Randall Glass made a new version of his infamous Warthog Jump movie, called Warthog Jump Revisited. We're mirroring the large (240x320, 30fps, 17Mb) version right here at Rampancy.

Halo was so long-hyped, so widely acclaimed, and so eagerly anticipated that it was rare to see it, as well as its rectangular abode, the Xbox, as roundly made fun of as both were in the frames of Penny Arcade.

Their criticism of the Xbox has waned some in the intervening months, although their Awards cartoon still poked fun at Halo, featuring the Xbox's flagship title next to a picture of.. of... well, a toilet.

Matt Soell dropped into the HBO forum to address the recent not on the board comment from Chris DiCesar at Microsoft. In short, DiCesar was just trying to be as conservative as possible, and as a result, understated what's being done on Halo.

Matt reiterates:

Various news sites around the web have, of course, been covering E3 this week, foremost among them CNET's News.com. Here are a few items pertaining to the Xbox and/or Bungie:

Everybody loves the Xbox-- but develops for the PS2 (CNET.com):