Halo 3 was just previewed for the first time at E3.

The trailer has since been released to XBL, and the web via Bungie.net, and I will comment on it in another post. Here, though, let me say how excited I am, regardless of the quality/impact of the trailer. The Halo series started a frequent LAN party group that still happens today. The originators of that group still play on XBL on a nearly weekly basis.

I don’t know if I’ve ever been more excited for, or more involved in, any game release’s pre-release hype machine than when the “I Love Bees” ARG campaign kicked off for Halo 2. Sharpie and I checked those websites constantly throughout the summer, and communicated our findings, as we both worked at jobs where we could communicate via IRC. We used our GPS tracker to roam all over Corvallis, and pinpoint exactly where the phone call should come in. We went and stood by our phones at the appointed time, even though we couldn’t pinpoint the phone exactly. We never did get a call, but we had a blast running around, and enjoyed watching and helping the internet solve the riddle.

The speculation, the hype, the standing in line for hours until midnight - those were good times. And I am so excited that we get to do this again.

Now, we’re all older - we’ve got kids, school is harder, jobs are harder - but we’ll stay connected. I fully plan to use this website as a hub for all of my/our activities in pursuing the fun that is Halo 3. I seriously doubt that this will be the clearinghouse of information for the Halo 3 community, but I hope to use it to track our adventures with it. See you online, and bee prepared!