Bungie.net has an interview with Bungie's new programming intern, Jon Cable, who cut his teeth by replacing the Pfhor in Marathon with images of Barney. We love you, Jon. Do you love us?

The London Free Press (of Canada, not Great Britain) is running a piece on Halo 3's announcement at E3 this year. They got to talk to several Bungie staffers about the trailer and the game.

CJ Cowan's quote specifically references the question about whether or not this is the last Halo game:

This is the final game in the Master Chief's story, this is the end of our trilogy.

That still doesn't quite answer the question, though.

Marcus Lehto waxed poetic on what the trailer shows and what this presages for the experience of playing Halo 3:

I wanted to make sure that we reintroduced the Chief, show that Earth is thoroughly conquered with Covenant everywhere, and that there is a glorious, ancient artifact buried under the Earth's crust, which will provide H3 with the epic journey -- which we all want.

Those who missed the feeling of times of dark desperation introduced in Halo 2's announcement trailer, but largely missing from Halo 2, should not despair, says Cowan:

If you look closely, this has a little bit of a darker feel to it, a little bit moodier. There's some tension going on and there's some consequences for our characters that are involved in the storyline.

According to the article, only ten percent of Bungie's 75-person Halo team worked on the trailer, although the soundtrack required a 60-piece orchestra and a 24-person choir.

[image:10173 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] This week's Bungie Weekly Update becomes the first Halo 3 Weekly Update as Frankie answers fan questions about the Halo 3 Announcement Trailer unveiled earlier this week at E3 2006.

As the updates have now returned to their original purpose as a development diary, we've opened up a Halo 3 Weekly Updates subpage on our Halo 3 Articles page, and archived the first Halo 3 Weekly Update there.

[image:10167 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] IGN's Halo 3 Announcement Trailer gallery had four images in it not published by Bungie. We've now added them to the gallery here. We've now subdivided the Halo 3 Images page into separate galleries: one for storyboards, and one for screen captures from the trailer itself. As other images are released we'll create separate galleries for them.