IGN's Livewire is currently streaming a Halo Wars demo from E3 - if you're interested, swing by now! Thanks, Urban Reflex.(Louis Wu 19:06:01 +0000)

Bungie's posted a summary of what happened (well, what didn't happen) last night - it includes answers to some of the most common questions thrown around on internet message boards in the past 18 hours. Go read. Thanks, BlueNinja.(Louis Wu 18:56:56 +0000)

One Bungie fan expressed disappointment (and hope) with true eloquence. Give it a read. It's a bright spot in an otherwise dreary morning for friends of Bungie.(Louis Wu 13:57:00 +0000)

Joystiq spoke to Phil Spencer, general manager of Microsoft Game Studios - Spencer answered a question about the lack of a Bungie announcement at E3 with a description of what WAS focused on (first-party games aimed for a holiday release this year). That suggests that Bungie's announcement was postponed because 1) they're no longer a first-party studio, and/or 2) their material is not ready for release this year. (Thanks, JustyB.) And MTV's Stephen Totilo spoke to Don Mattrick, Senior Vice President of the Interactive Entertainment Business - Mattrick confirmed that Bungie is, indeed, working on a Halo title (one that has NOT been announced before - this is major news by itself) and implied that the lack of a Bungie announcement this week was due to the fact that there was already enough Xbox news coming out of Microsoft. (Thanks, Avateur.) As Narcogen put so wryly over at Rampancy.net - welcome back to independence, Bungie. (That blog post is absolutely worth a read-through for any Bungie fan.) Update: Looks like kapowaz beat Avateur to the punch with the Mattrick article; I missed the timestamp on his post.(Louis Wu 13:38:47 +0000)

A bit more on the surprise cancellation: Kotaku has a short item that ties the situation to a "high level executive". There are plenty of forum posters out there willing to speculate who that might be. (On the off chance that the Kotaku piece is pulled, here's a screenshot.)(Louis Wu 04:35:04 +0000)

It's a sad, sad day for Bungie fans - swing by Bungie.net for full details. The short version: the announcement many have been waiting for eagerly - a new game, new Halo content, whatever it was going to be - is not going to happen tomorrow. Plans have been changed - no new date is announced. Update: we're getting a lot of mail from people who are speculating that this is a stunt (to build excitement for an announcement tomorrow), or that Bungie.net got hacked - I can confirm, after speaking to more than one Bungie spokesperson, that this is no stunt, no joke. This is real, and they're as unhappy about it as we are.(Louis Wu 02:03:06 +0000)

Hawty McBloggy found a series called 'Feast' - it's horror, Halo style. If you're into that sort of thing - swing by!
(Louis Wu 20:16:30 +0000)

UNSC_Trooper stopped by the main forum with word of some additions to the Halo Story Page. Check 'em out!(Louis Wu 18:15:25 +0000)

Not sure where this is all going... but it's interesting. Falagard dropped by with a report of a conversation that took place on the NeoGAF forums - the gist is that Alan Tudyk, an actor who did voice work for Halo 3, reported at Gencon (a gaming convention in Australia that took place a week or so ago, July 3-6) that he and Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin had recently "recorded voices for a Halo 3 supplemental" - could this be the Halo "Blue" referred to recently by Joystiq? It sure sounds like Bungie's working on SOMETHING Halo-related...(Louis Wu 17:11:19 +0000)

Psychophan7 posted a 'Mission Log' - a series of (very cool) screenshots (well, screenshot amalgams) with some storyline tossed in. I hope he continues with this. Check it out! (And be sure to look at the full-sized versions. They're spectacular.) Update: He's added a new pic, some explanation, and textless versions of the first five images. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:25:39 +0000)

sylntsniper reminded our forum that a week's gone by since Cold Storage's release on Xbox Live Marketplace - which means it's now available for download by Silver account holders. Better late than never!(Louis Wu 16:08:59 +0000)

Fluffy, over at Planet Halo, found another couple of Halo Wars vids - IGN has a short gameplay clip (embedded in the news post) and G4TV's got a video interview with Dave Pottinger, discussing the game (and showing off some examples).(Louis Wu 16:04:42 +0000)

Red vs Blue Reconstruction Chapter 7 is now up - both for sponsors, in an extended cut, and for everyone, on the RvB front page. What is Alpha, really? And who the heck are Burke and Dellario? Go watch!(Louis Wu 10:29:42 +0000)