Next-Gen has there weekly list of best selling games from Amazon.com. They report that Nintendo dominates 8 of the top ten spots. A full brake down by console can be found here .
Bungie has been using a unique system to track the amount of kills that happen in an area. This data is displayed on a "hot map". The redder an area is the more kills. This data is then used to help balance weapons and levels. [ Source ]
Not Good TV is set to launch there Game On…! series with an Halo 3 event loaded with uncut footage of celebrities playing Halo 3. "With No Good TV's focus on major pop culture events and a guest list of top tier talent, featuring Halo 3 on the debut of the video game series makes a lot of sense," Microsoft director of creative marketing Chris Di Cesare The event is set to go from May 30 to June 8. [ Source ]
A list of 13 maps was found in the Halo 3 beta code. The list is as follows. Chill - Halo 3 Chill Construct - Halo 3 Construct Cyberdyne - Halo 3 Cyberdyne High Ground - A relic of older conflicts, this base was reactivated after the New Mombasa Slipspace Event Guardian - Halo 3 Guardian Isolation - Halo 3 Isolation Valhalla - The crew of V-398 barely survived their unplanned landing in this curious gorge Epitaph - Some believe the Forerunners preferred desolate places. Others suggest that few other sites survived the Flood Shrine - Halo 3 Shrine Snowbound - Hostile conditions did not prevent the Covenant from seeking salvage on this buried Forerunner construct Warthog Inc - Halo 3 Warthog Inc Last Resort - Remote industrial sites like this one are routinely requisitioned and razed as part of Spartan training exercises [ Source ]