Bungie has published the statistics of the multiplayer beta of Halo: Reach and the numbers are truly impressive: only during the first day of availability of the beta have logged more people than attended the entire Halo 3 beta. Just to give you an idea, in the last 24 hours the way Bungie has seen just under 270,000 people attend for a total of nearly 12.8 million games.

If you're curious to learn more of the 'development of these data, you can access this page and be updated in real time. Apart from this communication Bungie announced that the beta will close with a few hours later than those originally intended, now stop is planned for 10 am tomorrow, Pacific time (we will then be the 19 evening). We wish you good fun for those hours of playing time waiting for the final release scheduled for September.