Louis Wu posted over at Halo.bungie.org that xbox.ign.com has a page of Xbox movies from the Tokyo Game Show, including one for

Matt Soell has posted at HBO informing fans that there will not be a HALO update this week:

Most of the team is not here today. We'll be doing some final testing (using DVDs on commercial hardware) next week - assuming that goes well, Halo will GM then.

In the meantime, there is a launch party to plan, and cool new web stuff to test, and content to write. Those of us on the Online Team won't stop to catch our breath until after the Halo Launch Party at the very earliest.

27 MB of new zip-archived HALO screenshots are available at the XBox Japan site. Geez... this should certainly satisfy anyone craving new HALO material to drool at. Thanks, HBO.

Fm says PC/Mac Halo out shortly after Xbox version

Credit Louis Wu at bungie.org for noticing this item, although somehow it slipped by us all for more than a week.

Bungie Studios' title takes first place, 45% of vote

Attend and you could win an Xbox and Halo

Louis Wu's news item on bungie.org alerted us to Matt's forum post about the announcement on bungie.net that the Halo Launch Party has been booked and scheduled.

Bungie decides against changes to keep teen rating

Since Amazon.com put up their page for pre-ordering Halo-- including box art-- some fans have been wondering about that big M seen there, because it looked disturbingly like an ESRB rating.

Two screenshots, some backstory, and detail galore

In the Halo.bungie.org forum they've been anxiously awaiting the latest Halo Update that Matt emailed to Haloplayers on Friday-- and now they've reported it's finally online