The past is the new future. "Journey's End," a ViDOC tracing the events leading up to Halo 3 is now available on Xbox Live.


"Journey's End," the final Halo 3 ViDOC is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace. "Journey's End" focuses on the story leading up to the events that unfold in Halo 3 -- there aren't any major Halo 3 spoilers in the ViDOC. However, if you haven't played the Campaign yet or are expecting it as a present for the holiday season, our Marty-esque advice is to unplug from the Internet and not watch the ViDOC until you've played the game. We'll have web versions available shortly.

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The MJOLNIR mix of the Halo Theme, first heard in Halo 2 is now available for the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero 3.

The Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori and Steve Vai sonic team-up from Halo 2 -- the "Halo Theme MJOLNIR Mix" --  is now available as a free downloadable track in Guitar Hero 3. To download it log into Guitar Hero 3 and access downloadable content via Xbox Live.

A bunch of us are going to be online from 3 p.m. Pacific to 5 p.m. Pacific today in Halo 3. The results of some of those matches will become this week's Humpday Challenge.

*UPDATE* This text is from Thursday, November 15th.

Instead of playing totally stacked teams last night in the Humpday Challenge, we decided to save some of the stress and heartache for this afternoon when a handful of Bungie dudes will be online playing to help celebrate Xbox Live's birthday. From 3 to 5 p.m. Pacific, UI mastermind Dave Candland, Multiplayer designer Lars Bakken, Tools creator Bob Glessner, Brian Jarrard and myself will be running amok on the Intertubes as one giant robot of destruction. Since there's five of us, it'd seem likely we'd make our way into a hopper that supports five-man teams. Hope to see you there!

The Halo 3 matchmaking playlist changes we mentioned in last week's Weekly Update are now live. Check the list out inside.


The Halo 3 matchmaking changes we outlined in last week's Weekly Update are live. In case you missed the Update or just plain forgot, here's a refresher:

Social Doubles has been removed from matchmaking

Rocket Race Hopper has been added to the Social hopper – 8 players, join in parties of up to 8 players.

Multi-team:

• Hammerzeit game variant has been added
• The frequency of VIP gametypes has been reduced
• Swords gametypes will now be to 25 kills, rather than 50

Lone Wolves:

• Player count has been increased to 6 players
• Swords gametype has been added
• Oddball games on Snowbound and Epitaph have been reduced considerably

Team Slayer:

• Guardian has been added to the playlist
• Valhalla has been added to Team Slayer

Social Skirmish

• Flag gametypes will now appear more regularly

Rumble Pit

• Added both Construct and Isolation to several gametypes

Want a sonic sneak peek at the Halo 3 Original Soundtrack (due next week in stores)? There's an officially sanctioned website that can satiate your desires.


Over at the Official Halo 3 Official Soundtrack super site, they've got a whole bushel of musical clips from the soundtrack, written and composed by Bungie's Martin O'Donnell and his longtime writing collaborator Michael Salvatori. There's 28 snippets from from the soundtrack (due November 20, pre-order it here) available for your ears' enjoyment.