Rampancy

Creativity Online interviews film director Neill Blomkamp about the promotional shorts he did for Halo 3, and in the process, finds out that the Halo movie project is a lot more dead than most fans think, and that the shorts were entirely separate, and not part of an attempt to lure Hollywood back into the project:

Halo 3 zoomed from its first day US sales of $170 million to a first week total of $300 million, according to GamesIndustry.biz. It was also heavily played on Xbox Live, garnering the top spot:

Microsoft stats reveal that more than 2.7 million people have played Halo 3 over Xbox Live in the past week, with the first day of release seeing a total of 3.6 million hours of online play, increasing to 40 million hours by the end of the first week.

Back in August, before Halo 3 went gold, OXM senior editor Andrew McCaffrey got to visit Bungie and play Halo:

We were fortunate enough to actually make it past the locked doors and get to step inside the heart of Bungie's newsroom-style studio on Day 2, being taken up into the "loft" area where Frank and the Bungie.net team sits, so we could be given a walkthrough of the redesigned website features and how they interact with Halo(R) 3. It was a quiet and focused environment, despite the fact that many on the team were on vacation, and the game was 99.9% done.