This Week In Halo

The above image is a still provided by Bungie this week from the Halo 3 commercial which will air on Monday Night Football on December 4 on ESPN in HD. Afterwards, it will be available on Xbox Live Marketplace and probably be ripped and distributed all over internet.

Halo 3 Beta Registration will begin December 4 as well. Its only going to be open to the US initially, but Bungie is promising to roll out registration at the international level shortly. This public play test will be all Xbox 360 and only multiplayer. As can be expected, all details regarding the single player game are still very closely guarded secrets. When Halo 2 came out, players were shocked to find out they’d spend much of the game as The Arbiter, so we can’t imagine what kind of curveball we’ll be thrown this time.

This past week, several Xbox Live players with Microsoft employees on their friend list found Pimps at Sea being played. This has long been the internal joke for what the “next project” would be when Bungie still hadn’t announced Halo 3, so its fairly obvious that multiplayer testing has start to happen on the regular Xbox Live network.

Finally, the king-daddy of video game inspired web films carries continues with its 5th season. Episode 84 of Red Vs Blue is online now, and Tucker must comes to grips with the fact that he’s now the mother of a tiny alien, while the Red team mourns the loss of Sarge, who they buried alive.