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The Bungie Weekly Update is live – bug squashing, studio shenanigans, teases, and a great double hijack. Go read it! (It is, of course, available in our Weekly Update Archive, as well – no need for Silverlight!)(Louis Wu 02:23:51 UTC)

GrimBrother One noticed an article at Kotaku – Stephen Totilo got the low-down on the seemingly out-of-character music in the Reach campaign demo unveiled at E3. It IS Marty’s work, and the fact that it’s different from everything else you’ve heard is…

It’s like a rebirth of Halo Babies, or something…(Louis Wu 18:55:25 UTC)

So last fall, we mentioned a project a couple of times (one | two) – a team called ‘Kre8-fx’ was building an animatronic Elite costume. Well, it looks like they’re back – urk just highlighted the latest post from the team on the 405th forums… and I’m…

New vids for you, up on Bungie’s Comm Chatter this afternoon:The Detonation is a Halo 3 montage from Kottiz – guy likes his sniper.Top 10 Halo 3 Splatters: Episode 54 is the latest from Anoj – lots of splats.Cloud (a Pro player with Team Instinct) gav…

Interesting interview with Brian Jarrard and Chris Carney over at Gamasutra this morning – they discuss the Halo Reach Beta, and the take-home messages from it. It’s a monster – 6 pages of good questions and better answers, lots of info about how the …

Minime637 was browsing YouTube, and ran across a vehicle montage with some nice gameplay – go check out oaklesss’ Vehicular Annihilation.(Louis Wu 14:52:54 UTC)

Exige created what he thinks Spartan-II emblem should look like… pretty snazzy!(Louis Wu 14:35:35 UTC)

Ready for more Fire Team Zulu challenges from FyreWulff? Banshee Battle is a Campaign challenge on Kikowani Station, while Post Mortem is a Firefight challenge on Alpha Site. Pick your poison – and kill some Covies!(Louis Wu 14:31:48 UTC)

Willy’s back with another 20 Questions for the month of June – he interviewed Krewtaun, a guy who makes videos highlighting entertaining dialogue in the Halo campaign. Fun read!(Louis Wu 14:29:15 UTC)

We missed this when it went live a couple of days ago, but Stephen Loftus’ Scale Comparison can now be found on Halo Waypoint – it’s even got new artwork that isn’t in the HBO-hosted version! If you’ve got Xbox LIVE, swing by and check it out! Thanks …

Pennybags stopped in with a heartwarming story from the MLG forums – a community outpouring for a kid who just wants to play with pros. Check it out! (Louis Wu 14:08:40 UTC)

There’s a full game of Firefight, recorded on the map Beachhead, by the Halo Waypoint team – no voiceovers, just gameplay. (Not always very GOOD gameplay – but gameplay.) You get a great sense of the level itself, see what Wraiths can do, and so on. T…

Thursdays come awfully fast these days – I totally missed it when one went by yesterday. But if you were paying attention, the latest Double EXP Weekend Playlist went live then – and you can go play Living Dead right now (through Monday morning). Soci…

Inside Gaming awarded Halo Reach ‘Best Online Multiplayer’ in their E3 Wrap-Up. Also, Ten FTW looked at the Top 10 Xbox 360 games at E3 2010 – Halo Reach came in at the number one slot. Thanks, The Alpha Elite. (Louis Wu 13:57:58 UTC)

The Fan Fiction section has been augmented with six new pieces – go read ’em! Also on the fanfic front, we got word from MaxRealflugel that a consortium of Bungie.net groups (FanFicFactor, The Mirratord and The Writing Guild) have gotten together to pu…

The Reach Development team hit ‘ZBR’ (Zero Bug Release) last night at midnight – there’s a note at the Reach Developer Blog discussing the milestone, and a Twitpic showing off Marcus smashing the countdown clock in the back behind the studio. Thanks t…

Hawty McBloggy found a pretty cool Master Chief stamp – what a way to add a Halo touch to your correspondence!(Louis Wu 18:35:39 UTC)

More Reach coverage – CNet has a 37-minute video podcast in which Reach is played (the Campaign footage is the same as we’ve seen a dozen times during E3, but the Firefight footage is worth watching – Halo footage starts around 17 minutes in), and Joys…

Video goodies for you today in Bungie’s Comm Chatter:Rapture is a Halo 3 montage from DevilDawg – some nice attempts to sync music to the gameplayStewie2552 is back with Funny Halo Fails and Laughs 13 – definitely some funny ones in there.Vilsen and F…