HBO has assembled a page full of screenshot captures from GameSpot's new Halo videos.

According to ActiveXbox, online video game rental service RedOctane will have all of the Xbox's launch titles available for rental on November 15th at a 7-day rental price of $6.95. The story goes on to say that:

A group of short, stout, large-toothed pack animals just rampaged through Rampancy central headquarters, muttering something in an unintelligible language.

When we ran it through the Universal Translator, this is what came out:

Halo is currently being certified, meaning it isn't actively being worked on by Bungie Studios at this time. Unless a rather serious flaw is found, it should be certified as Gold Master.

Then they ate a few cookies and left.

Kudos to Ferrex for pointing out that GameSpot has posted 9 new Halo videos. HBO is saying that the videos show the entire first level and even a bit more than that.

Louis Wu over at HBO pointed out an item over in their

And the Acronym Attack strikes again... that Halo Preview at xbox.ign.com we wrote about earlier also has nine new Halo screenshots taken from the TGS, and they're pretty good quality.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page, under current media.

Well, it looks like BattleGround: Halo's news script is working again, because they've got a bevy of news items from the Tokyo Game Show. Most of them are similar to the items here and elsewhere-- new movies, new screenshots, etc.

However, they've got one item about a poll at GameSpy that's new-- a poll pitting the Xbox vs. the GameCube. The poll is in the narrow bar on the lefthand side of the home page, about halfway down.

Awhile ago we ran a report that Halo had missed out on Game of Show and even Runner Up honors at the Tokyo Game Show. Among the issues cited in articles at the time was that Halo was still having some framerate problems.

We mentioned that it wasn't a good omen that Halo couldn't meet its 30 frames per second lock we remembered being told it would have, especially when games on rather pedestrian PC hardware were getting far higher rates, even if they were fluctuating.

CoreMagazine.com has posted an interview with Microsoft games division vice president Ed Fries, responsible for the Xbox, and Yutaka Haruki, Japanese Xbox division manager. There are a few notes about the reduction in hard drive size, and the reduction of the Xbox's controller size (in Japan), but Halo also gets a mention when they asked Fries about the Xbox in the Japanese market:

Mr. Blonde warned us all on the halo.bungie.org forums that xbox.ign.com posted a new Halo preview today.