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The Hushed Casket has details on how some people with access to the Epsilon build of Halo 3 got duped into offering access to the game to unauthorized persons by getting access to those users' gamertags on their own consoles, and using that gamertag to download the build.
Check the story for full details; there are no real plot spoilers in the story itself, but there are fuzzy image captures from both multiplayer action and campaign play from Tsavo Highway.
Back in August, gaming website Kotaku posted scans of what purported to be a leaked Halo 3 manual on their site. Not knowing if they were genuine, they put them up and let the readership decide whether to give them credence or not.
Now it seems that Internet Investigator James Young has sent Kotaku a rather odd letter. Kotaku has posted the entirety of the letter, but it's worth pulling out a few select pieces for examination:
It has come to Microsoft's attention that your website includes material which is in violation of Microsoft's intellectual property rights. Content currently residing within your computer system infringes on the trademark rights of Microsoft Corporation and constitutes an unauthorized activity relating to Microsoft computer programs.
So, first off, disclaimers: I Am Not A Lawyer and This Article Does Not Constitute Legal Advice.
Secondly, trademark infringement. This usually refers to use of a registered trademark within a certain context. These are protected to prevent companies from creating me-too products to confuse consumers.
John "JCal" Callaham has written another of Firing Squad's quarterly updates on the console wars; the page on the Xbox 360 has a number of suggestions to Microsoft on how to win the console wars. FS thinks a flawless Halo 3 launch is important:
Even though the game has gone gold there are still things that could happen that could make the launch an issue. There could be copies of the game that are unplayable due to issues in manufacturing. Pirates could gain access to the game early. A rush of online players on Xbox Live on launch day could cause slowdowns in the network. Microsoft has pretty much everything riding on Halo 3 being a huge success. It can't have anything happen that could cause the Xbox 360 as a whole to suffer.
That's probably an exaggeration. The Public Beta had a few bumps in the first few days, mostly for Crackdown buyers. If some problem prevents everyone from getting online the first few days, somehow I doubt that will affect Halo 3 sales or the 360 platform that much.
Cole at Lasersharks points out that the Wikiscanner discovered an edit to the entry on Halo 3 that came from the Sony Computer Entertainmentoffice in the UK. The edit inserted the phrase "although it wont look any better than Halo 2" into the description of the game.
The edit was apparently to the Halo 3 section of the main page for the Halo series and has since been removed.
Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up.
Louis Wu at HBO pointed out that ComWave-- apparently responsible for the Radio Shack website that just added a Halo 3 product page-- will correct some of the errors in the previous product description, and also added additional screenshots to their gallery. I've collected the new shots, with Wu's gracious technical assistance, in the images gallery.