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While at the NYC Reach Launch Event, Mig stole my camera and took a bunch of pictures. (You should be happy he did – if he hadn’t, there wouldn’t be ANY pictures, because I’m not smart enough to take it out of my pocket.) Captions assume you’re going …

So the folks at the Geek Speak Radio Show asked me if I’d participate on the show; I’m not sure I didn’t chase all their listeners away, but if you want to hear me doing my best to make Halo accessible to non-Halo players, go listen! (Elites have “hor…

pete_the_duck let us know that Damian Lacedamian posted a 4-minute interview with him on This Spartan Life’s blog – it’s talking about the map he made for the Waypoint interview TSL did with the band OK Go. Pretty fun interview! Watch it to see how pe…

A must-see vid is up on Bungie.net’s Comm Chatter today. Snoop Dogg plays Reach with LL Cool J – and the techniques for psyching out their opponents go way, way beyond standard smack-talk. Watch it at B.net, or just swing by Funny Or Die (so you can v…

GamesRadar has put together a list of the Top 7 ways that Halo has influenced the games industry. Not sure I agree with all of them (many of these things were around LONG before Halo), but it’s an interesting read!(Louis Wu 20:40:43 UTC)

Popular Mechanics has an in-depth look at the making of Reach, with insight from Joe Tung, Marcus Lehto, and Sage Merrill – go give it a read, you’ll learn something! (Louis Wu 20:39:54 UTC)

USA Today’s Game Hunters has a basic ‘helping hand’ guide for Reach, if you’re a total beginner – check it out for tips! (Louis Wu 20:39:16 UTC)

Wondering how well Reach is doing? Around noon PST yesterday, Bungie tweeted this – as of that point, Reach had already surpassed the all-time highest record for Halo 3 concurrent unique users on LIVE. Wonga!(Louis Wu 20:33:30 UTC)

Lance Alexander sent word that the National Gaming League is hosting a live Halo Reach Tournament in in Atlanta, GA on October 9th. You can find full info (gametypes, rules, settings) on this page. They’re going to be kicking off a new ranking system …

The Escapist has put up a Halo timeline – it’s not a timeline of events IN the Halo universe, it’s a timeline of how the Halo universe has grown. Pretty interesting piece of work! Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for noticing.(Louis Wu 15:20:13 UTC)

Josh Ruble let us know that last night’s Late Nite JengaJam (a podcast run by RvB’s Jengaship took place in Halo Reach – they tried to review it while playing. Go watch to see how they did!(Louis Wu 15:16:45 UTC)

Over at High Impact Halo, you’ll find a launchoff a Banshee onto a much, much bigger vessel. Minor spoilers if you haven’t played Tip of the Spear yet. I love you guys, HIH. Thanks, Ducain.(Louis Wu 14:45:24 UTC)

kornman00 found a really amazing easter egg (set of eggs?) near the end of the game – he’s done a pretty nice job of documenting it. SERIOUS spoilers, obviously. Also serious coolness. Much <3, Bungie. (Louis Wu 13:06:22 UTC)

I’ve never heard the term ‘upcycled’ before – but there’s a pretty interesting women’s top on Etsy right now, and it started with a Halo 3 shirt. If you like it, hurry – there’s only one. (Louis Wu 13:05:43 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 whipped up a pretty entertaining wallpaper, and sent it to Hawty McBloggy – I love the credits at the bottom. (Louis Wu 13:02:40 UTC)

Penny Arcade has another Reach-related comic today; no newspost (yet), but I’d guess there’ll be followup when it’s posted. Thanks, hnc. (Louis Wu 13:01:28 UTC)

Thanks to a kind friend and some very accomodating Bungie employees, PFG has nearly completed his signed Bungie Halo poster collection (one for each release, except the Map Pack). Take a look at the pics!(Louis Wu 13:00:20 UTC)

HaLo2FrEeEk went to a Gamestop midnight opening to buy Reach… and got teabagged by a Spartan. (Sounds like he enjoyed it, too.) Go check out the film!(Louis Wu 12:59:10 UTC)

dogcom got more mail from Microsoft, offering print-ready Reach artwork and assets for download – some pretty cool stuff in there! Go grab your own.(Louis Wu 12:58:28 UTC)

We’re asking that folks be polite in our forum – if you’re going to post Campaign spoilers, that you flag your posts with an *SP* tag in the subject line, and that if you’re posting inside of a thread that isn’t COMPLETELY devoted to spoilers, that yo…