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Big news in the Bungie Weekly Update this week: Cold Storage will be released on Bungie Day (the 7th day of the 7th month [July 7], get it?), and will be 100% FREE forever. To add to that joy, the Legendary Map Pack (Avalanche, Blackout, and Ghost Town) will be a mere 600 Microsoft Points, down from the previous 800.

In honour of this news Bungie is putting on a 7 player free for all playlist for 48 hours, seemingly exclusively on Cold Storage. Additionally, there will be a free gamerpic and theme for a limited time (24 hours), and a bunch of other cool things.

The Update has other news, as well as a ViDoc about the new map. Hooray!

Two more images of Cold Storage, the latest Halo 3 map, showed up todays Bungie Weekly Update. This time they are level overviews, and they appear to indicate that the map has been essentially re-skinned and re-spaced for Halo 3, much in the same way that Lockout was updated to Blackout.

Here’s the overview with weapons and items marked, and here is the same screenshot, but without those pesky weapons boxes.

Click here to read the full story, which has more than just Cold Storage information.

The above is the first of two trailers for the upcoming machinima The Land Grab from Separate Intelligence, a group that a few of our most regular users belong to.

DamnGamer.com got the original release on the trailer and an exclusive interview with the creator, and we recommend you check it out.

Arguably Halo: CE’s most popular map, Chill Out was put on display last night by Bungie at the MLG San Diego event, the second stop on the 2008 MLG Pro Circuit. The new map - dubbed ‘Cold Storage’ - was displayed by Luke Smith and Shishka in an exhibition match against two MLG stars. The boys from Bungie made no mention of the intended release date.

MLG has kindly hosted some images from the event. Follow this link for the gallery.

We’ll be keeping you updated on the new maps as they are announced, and we might even help a few lucky readers pay for the pack.

Due to lack of quality clips from the playoffs, the Halo3Planet.com Spring Smash Grifball Tournament’s highlights will almost assuredly not happen. At least we got one solid reel out.

However, one of our admins, HaloHero, has been editing the highlights for the Rooster Teeth Official Grifball League, and the above videos are the final products. We hope you enjoy them. Look forward to more in the coming summer league season (date of league unconfirmed).

Also, be sure to check out our Grifball Spring Smash t-shirt at the H3P Apparel Store.