Bounty is reporting at BattleGround: Halo that Electronics Boutique has begun shipping Halo preorders. It is expected to arrive Wednesday.

The last few days has seen a lot more information come out about Halo's multiplayer game types and options. First, xbox.ign.com posted Part Two of their Halo Multiplayer Guide, once again making it available only for IGNInsider subscribers.

Final Solution Xbox has posted some scans of the Halo disc, as well as some really useful advice for playing the game, like Don't piss off Covenant Elites. Spotted by Louis Wu over at HBO.

Gaming Age has put up an article describing their first impressions of playing Halo. It's generally complimentary, although their response to the game's opening wasn't nearly as enthusiastic as most fans' reactions to the intro movies posted awhile back:

Allenthar wrote a nice post in our forum about his experience at the Xbox Odyssey event in San Fransisco on the 4th of this month. It focuses mostly on playing impressions and combat events rather than story spoilers, but he does warn that reading it might take away from the first experience of playing the game, so beware.

TeamXbox has posted a link to a RealPlayer edition of the Xbox commercial featuring Halo gameplay footage that is expected to air starting November 11. There's a article about the campaign at adreview as well.

The German magazine GameStar has posted a Halo review that's drawn some fire from fans over in the HBO forum. For one, apparently it's a little more critical than most of the others we've seen in the English language press of late; it accuses Halo of being unoriginal of all things, then gives away just about all of the plot.

Louis Wu at HBO spotted that xbox.ign.com has posted the second part of their Halo Multiplayer Guide. Just like the first part, right now it's visible only to IGNInsiders. This part describes Halo's 26 multiplayer game variations.

Thanks to no7orious for pointing out that ConsoleWire has previewed Halo. The article is yet another praise to put under Halo's belt and is a fairly interesting read. Check it out.

Game-Revolution has posted a rundown on the Xbox's launch titles in different categories. Naturally, Halo kicks off the Action category, and they liked the game a lot:

Chris Butcher, master of Halo AI, posted a message in HBO's forum about Halo's difficulty levels. Here's a snip:

tanmeatloaf, or Sebastian, over at Xbox365 just got back from the Xbox Unleashed event in Los Angeles and has posted an article about his experiences there. Halo doesn't get mentioned much in the article itself except to say that despite earlier indications, Halo was available in the free play areas but not used in the competetion phases of the event. Later, in a response to a reader question about Halo, he wrote:

Well, while the R.net staff was off doing something supposedly enjoyable (at least, I hope it was-- I don't really remember) on Friday night, the news drones at Bungie.org were busy tracking down the latest Halo news. Here's a short summary with links:

• Story spoilers at the Marathon Story Page