
The second chance requires you to have Halo 2 and an Xbox live gold account (and an XBOX 360 of course). You have to play Halo 2 online for a total of 3 hours between 12 am Feb 1st and 11:59 pm Feb 3rd. That is EST so it would start at 9 pm on Jan 31st for those of us in PST. After playing your 3 hours, you have to go to Halo3.com and be one of the first 13,333 people to register for the beta version. I'm guessing that those 13,333 people will all have registered by 4 am PST; I hope I'm one of them.

If that doesn't work, you'll have to go to the stores and purchase Crackdown for the XBOX 360 on Feb 20th and get a specially marked version that will come with a key allowing you to download Halo 3 beta in the spring when it is released.

Good luck guys, either way I'm sure you'll be joining me to finish the fight in October/November when the game is officially released.