So you’ve grappled with the installation problems in Halo 2 Vista and got your ass handed over to you in the Halo 3 beta, and you start to wonder how much more Halo you can get in your life. Well, if you are anything like us (by which I mean me), then you start pulling a Lester Burnham and see Halo-related stuff fall slowly from the sky, as the American Beauty theme tinkles away in the sad recesses of your brain.

First off, if you have the dough and fancy yourself a true Halo-geek, you can ditch that iPod you’re all carrying for the Halo 3 Special Edition Zune. It’s the regular Zune, with the all-you-can-eat music store, the wonderfully envisioned yet woefully executed music sharing options, 3″ of sexy screen-space and oh yeah, did I mention the complete Halo and Halo 2 OSTs, trailers of Halo 2 and Halo 3, “Making of” documentary videos, the first 6 episodes of Red vs. Blue Season 1, tons of Halo-related images and a special, Halo: Zune edition of Red vs. Blue! All this, in a sleek Halo-themed shell, can be yours for a measly $249! Get yours today!

More on the Special Edition Halo Zune 

And if that didn’t fix you, there’s even more information straight from Bungie and IGN on the upcoming Halo: Uprising, a four-part mini-series by Marvel and Halo: Contact Harvest, the next Halo novel, which is being penned by Bungie man/Grunt voice Joseph Staten and will chronicle hard-ass UNSC Sergeant Avery J.Johnson’s first contact with the Covenant forces.

Read Bungie’s interview on Halo: Contact Harvest
Read IGN’s interview on Halo: Uprising

But wait! We’ve got more! In fact, we’ve even got some inflatable balloons of the Master Chief and the Xbox 360 as well as scrap-metal art of our favourite MC, all of 18″ and made made out of old motorcycle parts, which you can buy off eBay for a cool $139! And here you were, thinking that Bungie extending the Halo 3 beta by 4 days was the next best thing after sliced bread and potato chips! There, I’ve used the word ”Halo“ enough times in this post to make me a nutcase, happy?

Update: And oh, yeah, in case you needed an even better reason to pick up Halo 3 when it hits shelves this September 25, here’s a little bit of the on-screen text that some players dug up for the game’s multiplayer and single player campaign:

The game cannot start because all players are set to observer. Too many players for splitscreen. Only 2 players may play splitscreen coop on the same Xbox 360 console. The party size is too large to start the game. Up to 4 players may play coop on Xbox Live or System Link. Loading information from Xbox Live…

There, now go and fantasize and start counting the seconds until you hold the game disc in your hands!

Sources: Kotaku / Bungie / IGN

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• bobby sandhu Says:
  May 23rd, 2007 at 5:03 pm

  That reminds me of Matrix cell phones they came out with… They looked classy in the movie, but in reality they totally looked outdated… wait a minute….. matrix was outdated.. i get the joke now….ha ha ha ha ha….. classic……

  i actually saw them on TV, in some gadget show…

• Krishnan Rajagopal Says:
  May 23rd, 2007 at 7:52 pm

  HEY! I’ll have you know I was one of those people who was mindlessly rushing around, trying to get that Samsung Matrix phone! Pity the damn thing was available only through Cingular or something in the US and was CDMA only. I would have sold my soul for that phone… Snapped open like a gun magazine or something. Yeah, I know that’s pretty much what they wanted to assemble, but I wouldn’t trade that phone over anything else in the world, just as surely as I wouldn’t trade the Halo: Zune or the Halo 2 Special Edition Xbox, if I could get my hands on them.

  I wonder if the Xbox 360 Elite will also have a Halo 3 edition when the game comes up. I’m betting every last penny I have that it will, or I’ll eat my shorts! Awww, why’d you have to remind me of that Matrix phone. Now I’m gonna go and look at its pics all day long!

• bobby sandhu Says:
  May 23rd, 2007 at 9:36 pm

  i bet they would… Microsoft will sell anything… anything that makes sound and produces a lots of heat.

  So it was samsung…. i didnt know that.

  heh heh heh… suffer from the memories of not-so-forgotten past

• Parag Vad Says:
  May 24th, 2007 at 8:40 am

  OOH yeah, i am getting one of these babies…any idea on how it is tech specs? earphones and the likes?

• Krishnan Rajagopal Says:
  May 24th, 2007 at 11:30 am

  It’s a Zune, so what do you expect. A cool looking Zune, but a Zune nonetheless. So that means tons of software issues, decent music, decent video, useless WiFi sharing and a new, irritating DRM scheme. Meh! Only if someone gifts this to me for free…

• bobby sandhu Says:
  May 24th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

  yippie for the translate thingie… hey….. wait minute.. where is Punjabi….