Microsoft's portal into everything Halo will launch on November 5th.  The Xbox 360 channel will be home to exclusive content including podcasts, videos, screens, and events.  

One interesting feature of it is said to be a persistent ranking and accomplishment system tied to the Halo games including Halo 3, ODST and presumably Reach when that launches next year.  Waypoint will also host the Halo: Legends Anime series.  For more info on Waypoint you can follow the team on Twitter.  

You'll definitely want to keep an eye on this, we should hopefully have some great info regarding Waypoint and Co-Optimus in the near future!

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With the recent Xbox 360 price drop, retailers are going to be competing for your business.  That means kick ass deals for you.  Amazon has a very co-op friendly deal going on right now - purchase the Xbox 360 Pro with a 60GB hard drive for the new $249.99 price; and you'll get one of the following co-op games for free: Halo 3, Fable 2 or Halo Wars.  You choose and you also get free shipping!

If that's not your thing you can get the Xbox 360 Elite console for the new $299 price with one year of Xbox Live Gold for free!

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Sometimes we find co-op in the most unexpected ways.  Take the gaming clan Tied the Leader.  A predominately versus clan, the folks cooked up a crazy idea - lets see how many medals we can get in one shot of the Spartan Laser in Halo 3.

The answer?  43.

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Halo 3 is one of those titles that I just never picked up.  Even though I only recently (i.e., within the past year) bought a 360, the latest game in the Halo series wasn’t one that I just had to get hold of right away.  I actually avoided it for as long as possible for a variety of reasons, but a certain someone, along with the price tag that comes with a game that’s close to two years old, convinced me that it was probably time to finally see what folks have been talking about.  Buckle up tight, folks: this week in co-op, we take a day trip to New Mombasa.

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Are you excited for Halo 3: ODST yet?  The hype train is rolling right along, and Arstechnica has a great interview with the game's producer Joseph Staten.  According to Staten Halo 3: ODST was designed with co-op in mind since day 1. 

"Every Halo game has been made with co-op in mind. It informs how we build our environments, how we create a scripting system, we have to build an AI that can do with co-op. "

"Every one of our missions was tweaked for two or more ODSTs going through the space. We made sure they had different routes to take, different roles to fill. The city is a great place to run around in with four guys."

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Last night we had our first Halo 3 Co-Op night in over a year, and I think most of the staff can give it a resounding success.  We've uploaded some photos of the action, and posted some recounts from the staff members who played.  

Did you join up?  Did you find some new friends thanks to our co-op night?  Did you have FUN?  If so let us know!

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