Jeremy has posted pictures of him playing Halo at a local kiosk in the Xbox Addict forums. (Thanks HBO)

Kudos to HBO for noticing GameSpot has added a Halo video review. It's 82 MB large and is available in MPG and WMP format. Alternatively, you can stream the video in Windows Media or Real Player format.

There's a poll at GameSpot, asking in light of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 coming to the PC, which of these other high-profile console games would you most like to see brought to the PC? Of course, Halo is an option. Halo is currently winning with 30% of the votes (nearly 2000).

Despite minor complaints about framerate issues, and the lack of bots, GS liked Halo plenty. Interesting, in fact, that most of the other reviews haven't carped about the missing bots that much.

But aside from that, the review gushes from the get-go and doesn't stop:

HBO's own Louis Wu has posted that IGN's Halo review is out-- although most of us won't be able to see it for awhile. It's at IGN and is Insider Only at the moment.

BattleGround: Halo's SonicStorm is reporting that VoodooExtreme has posted their review of Halo, rating it a 95 out of 100. In short, they loved it:

Also via Louis Wu at HBO comes word of this report from Hyperium about a Halo review at TechTV.

Shockwave at TeamXbox has posted a complete review of Halo. Par for the course, he was impressed by the game, especially the graphics:

Louis Wu has reported over at HBO that the recent exposure of the Halo launch party on some of the larger Xbox fan sites has generated a deluge of RSVP responses; about three times the number they can actually withstand. Matt Soell has also posted in the forum about how they will handle the situation:

Mr. Bunny posted in the HBO forum that Halo was mentioned in stories covering the upcoming console wars this holiday season, both in the Washtech section of the Washington Post and the New York Times (registration required).

Eric Trautmann from Microsoft has posted in our forum about his involvement with Eric Nylund's Halo prequel novelization, The Fall of Reach . In the course of his post, he talked a bit about the movie rumors going around:

CG Online has a short interview with Jason Jones, original cofounder of Bungie Software Products Corporation subsequently sold to Microsoft and transmogrified into Bungie Studios, developers of Halo for the Xbox. They asked point blank if Halo would still come to the PC, to which Jones replied point blank, yes .

AdReview might have had a point about absolute morons at gaming sites.

Problem was, they were talking about the wrong people.

Coriolis at Ancrik pointed out a cute Bungie-themed MasterCard ad spoof in the Comics section of The Psyjnir Complex.