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.

TeamXbox is reporting that there's a demo of Oddworld on the Halo game disc; another benefit of using DVDs for storage.

TeamXbox has noted that EBGames.com is once again accepting Xbox preorders; but these orders are expected to ship on November 19th, and not on the official launch date of November 15.

Head over and check out Voodoo Extreme's five Halo screenshots. These are some really pretty in-game shots, probably some of the best we have seen. You'll see a couple shots of the Warthog and the marine, as well as Halo's beautiful scenery.

HBO has linked to a mirror of Final Solution's scans of the Halo manual. The mirror, setup by Kbjlake, lets you download the images one by one or you can download a 3.6 MB ZIP containing all of the scans.