"Why not?" Arenas told the Post. "I mean, who is it hurting? It's two dummy players playing against each other. It's not messing with anybody. I have my friend, it'll be him and his fake friend, me and my fake friend, we'll take turns losing back and forth."

Bungie's forum members got suspicious when looking at Arenas' history under his Xbox Live Gamertag, Agent Arenas. Though Arenas' wins obviously won't increase his actual ranking, they give experience points, which can increase officer ratings--Agent Arenas became a Grade 1 Colonel just today, in fact.

Arenas seems to think his less-than-admirable deeds are more of an exploit than a cheat. "You can win things off of social, when you shouldn't [be allowed] to. All you have to do is do what we're doing," he said in the blog post. "I guarantee everybody's doing it. I mean, how would they know anyway?"

Something of a Halo fanatic, Arenas is actually the sponsor of professional Halo gamer group and Major League Gaming participant Team Final Boss. The player boasted of his Halo 3 skills in a recent video on MTV's Multiplayer Blog.