Thanks to the various people who sent this to me -- and Toneman who managed to put it up in his clog while I was busy sleeping -- the above video is a YouTube clip of the supposedly leaked ending to Bungie's upcoming Halo 3. Obviously it contains a truckload of spoilers so if you don't want to cry about how horribly I've ruined the experience of a game whose story has often been compared to the finest works of Hemingway and Steinbeck (by those who have an incredibly cruel grasp of sarcasm), do not press play, read the comments below, or log onto the Internet for the next week.

Then again, since Microsoft has an army of lawyers made of molten rock and pure hatred at their beck and call, I give the clip roughly six hours before it disappears into the ether. Enjoy it while you can!

[UPDATE: Backups now exist, so even if the YouTube clip is drowned in a flood of C&D orders, we'll still have it for you.]