Here's the unedited update, baby!

No rest for Bungie. Here's a taste of what's happening:

- We now have team-specific versions of all multiplayer games. We're also introducing a bunch of multiplayer options (unlimited grenades, motion tracker off, limited number of lives, player with ball runs faster instead of slower, and a bunch more) so people can set up games under all sorts of interesting, challenging, amusing conditions.

- Speaking of multiplayer, Chris Carney is the latest addition to the team, designing new multiplayer maps.

Matt Soell has cause quite a stir in the community with his latest post on HALO, multiplay, and the XBox:

The editors of xbox.ign.com have compiled a list of what was hot and was what not at E3. Jason put HALO as his second favorite game of the show, below Project Ego and above Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding. Brandon said that HALO was too choppy for his tastes, but it looked much stronger than [he] thought it would . No other editors mentioned HALO in their round-up.

HBO found MSXBox's E3 HALO impressions. Overall positive, it's an honest report that doesn't avoid the downfalls.

Aginor tipped off Halo.bungie.org about a Halo article at Core Magazine, replete with videos. Some may remember then covering the details of the Xbox Development Kit hardware in an interview with Microsoft director of advanced technologies Naota Yoshioka awhile back.

Capt Crunch comes to us with word that his new copy of Newsweek cites Halo as the Xbox's premiere launch title. You can find it online as well. No real suprise there, as the field seems bereft of serious competitors for the title. Unless, of course, you're a snowboarder:

There have been a fair number of complaints about what people saw of Halo at E3, despite the fact that lots of players' comments were pretty positive. Chief among the complaints were low framerates and lack of detail in multiplayer.

Bungie.org's own Louis Wu has recovered from his Halo Overload as he called it and put up his own post-E3 summary of his Halo experience. He still seems to feel the game is fun and on-track. An excerpt: