Xbox365 asks where you will be (or rather, where you were) at midnight on Halo 2uesday. There are some store pics as well.
As promised, we've opened up a thread for discussion of Halo 2 spoilers, for those who already have the game already and those who just can't wait until they do and have to know everything right now.
Australia, New Zealand, and the East Coast of North America have now passed through the terminator into November 9, 2004, officially Halo 2uesday. Before you go off to get your copy, take a gander at BOLL's gorgeous Halo 2 countdown timer.
Just a note: Rampancy.net has a feature called throttle that gradually disables site functions as traffic goes up, in order to prevent the entire thing from catching fire, falling over, and sinking into a swamp.
We tested it with the last Bungie Weekly Update we hosted, and while the site was unavailable for part of the night, generally we were pleased, and had less downtime while also being able to serve more users.
However, with the Halo 2 launch craze, we're getting higher than usual levels of sustained traffic, and so the site may disable some of these functions in order to cope. Think of it like Cortana disabling some of her functions while trying to keep all that Halo data intact.
So if you're trying to make a comment, or view newsfeeds, or use some of the other of the site's advanced functions, and all you get is a blank page or a MySQL error-- just wait awhile and try later. It doesn't mean the site is broken or crashed, it just means it is trying to cope with the increased load.
Because they know there's really nothing else to do this week, Red vs Blue is releasing a total of three episodes this week. First up, episode #41 is on the Videos page.
Bungie.net's Stats Overview is the place to go and start your calculations on how to game the system that Bungie.net will use for calculating player ranks. Let the whining begin!
Gholsbane over at MBO notes that November 7 marked the 7th anniversary of the release of Myth: The Fallen Lords, released in 1997. All the players who still have the game on their hard drive-- and we know you're out there-- head to PlayMyth or marius.net and get in a game to commemorate.