Less ado, more do:

Major Nelson did a backstage interview with Peter Moore before the press event. Despite the latter's predilection for annoying golf claps punctuating his presentation, he does redeem himself with his good taste in beer, mentioning that Bass ale is one of his green room requirements.

A link to the video interview can be found here:

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Major Silva of the United Nations Space Command Defense Force (a Halo fansite) interviewed Claude "Louis Wu" Errera of HBO. Asked how there were enough hours in the day for him to keep up with all the news in the Halo universe, as well as delete forum spam, run a business, have a family, and sometimes even play Halo, he responded:

Dean Takahashi caught up with Hamilton Chu of Giant Bite to talk about life after Halo. Chu spent three and a half years working on Halo; before that, he was part of the Oni team.

Game-Spectrum, purporting to cover the entire spectrum of gaming, gets a nice interview, along with threats of physical violence, with its interview of Bungie's own Kevin "KP" Paul, covering his turn-ons, turn-offs, and how he sleeps at night knowing all that stuff about Halo that we'll never even know we don't know.

The previously Halo-themed mod for Command & Conquer Generals might not have a Bungie flavor anymore, but the request to cease development using Halo intellectual property does not mean the project is dead.

Halogen lead Dispraiser said in an interview with GameSetWatch:

Quint at Ain't It Cool News has put up part three of five in his interview with Halo movie producer Peter "Freakin" Jackson. Unlike just about everybody at Bungie, Jackson actually likes to talk and talk about Halo, so there's loads of content in here. It is probably too far out from the film's expected release to hold him to anything concrete in here, but what comes across loud and clear is his enthusiasm for first-time feature director Neill Blomkamp.

The latest Community Spotlight at Bungie.net by KP is on Recon54, who is currently on an extended mission ordered by the greybeards of old school Bungie fandom to observe noobs in their natural habitat, interacting with Microsoft's "magical humming box". In addition, he drives the Spambulance and has a healthy fear of Shishka, which certainly any rational person can understand. Head over and give it a read if you haven't already.

Josh Rodgers and "Stosh" recently joined Bungie officially after spending time involved in other capacities. KP drew the short straw and had to interrogate them about their deviant proclivities, super secrets, scrumptious sandwiches and the use of Mat Noguchi's rage radiation as a source of warmth. Check it out.

In this case, we're talking about the upcoming Halo book by Eric Nylund, Ghosts of Coral (or of Onyx, depending on who you believe), but actually about Nylund's first Halo outing, The Fall Of Reach, which according to an interview with Nylund at Firing Squad, Microsoft commissioned him to write in... you guessed it, seven weeks.

We're extremely late in mentioning this article, but Gamasutra did an interview with Wideload Games founder Alexander "The Man" Seropian last month as Part 2 of their Tour of Chicago. Seropian's post-Bungie startup is based there, as Bungie was prior to the Microsoft buyout.

• Aleph One, the open-sourced version of Marathon for Windows, Linux and Mac OS, has a new release out.
• The HD QuickTime version of the Halo 3 trailer documentary is back up at Microsoft.
• KP profiles known Cortana-hater Jillybean at Bungie.net.