Seen first at HBO, Alloy Gaming has got a poll up which is asking What upcoming game will be THE big cheese? The choices are: Black & White, Halo, Freelancer, Warcraft 3 and Tribes 2. Go and vote your preference!

Yeroen, Bungie's Webmeister, has just announced that Bungie will be supplying the E-3 Halo movie for free download via the Internet.

Kudos to CyberBob for informing us of a new E3 Halo report done by PC.Ign.Com. The first part, a report on the movie, was done by Luxor of Halo Vault. Luxor reports some information on frame rates, among other things. The second part is an older preview of the game as it looked around MWSF. Go take a look.

I think that the one question I've been hit with the most is, Noc! When are we going to see that movie? Well here's your chance! Bungie is holding a poll on whether you'd be willing to purchase the E3 movie on DVD, complete with Dolby 5.1 audio. (And I can tell you that the audio was an experience... at one point you heard bullets ricocheting off the wall right next to your ear)

You've probably already seen some of these images, but I figure it can't hurt to post our own copies up. I'm rather frustrated that most of my own shots didn't turn out well but DeusExMachina was happy to supply me with a few of his.

A new page up at Marathon's Story today, covering the Official Halo Backstory thus far. Compiling all of the known story items to date, this page is certainly one to check out if you want to see how things have evolved over the last nine months. The seeds of a Halo's Story, perhaps?

One last article to wrap up our E3 coverage this year, which I think went rather well (thanks to everyone for putting up with the lax news reporting during that time). This last Halo article covers the few points I managed to miss in the first two, among other things:

It took a little while to crank out but we've got GameStar Magazine's May 2000 Halo preview translated and ready for your perusal. As before, CyberBob of Halo World deserves my thanks for collaborating on the translation. Here's a quick clipping: