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Well, yesterday was a rather crazy day; seems like many Halo fans spent it looking for codes to get into the Reach Beta. (Bungie dumped 1000+ codes on their front page last night, leaving people in a mad scramble to find a working one; they dumped another 100+ on OUR forum, and passed out a…

The Halo Waypoint team did an interview with Eric Nylund recently, discussing an item you’ll be able to get your hands on later this fall – Halsey’s Journal, a labor of love included in both the Limited and Legendary Editions of Halo: Reach. The interview will be live on the Waypoint website early next week…

The Bungie Weekly Update is up WAY earlier than usual – and it’s spectacular. Go watch ‘New Beginnings’ – a look at the BUNGIE vision of making great games – and then go on down and read about ways to STILL get codes, the math behind a game rating, and more. (Best Shishka gif EVER.…

Stuntmutt returns with a cynical shot at the Reach Beta in a special One One Se7en episode. <3… (And Happy 7th Anniversary, Stunt!)(Louis Wu 13:02:25 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue posted the first of a special Reach Edition series of Reclaimer – nice work!(Louis Wu 13:01:35 UTC)

Because you’re gonna be having your ODST disc in the drive ANYWAY soon, you might as well check out FyreWulff’s latest Firefight Friday challenge – this one is called ‘Into the Breach’, and is available on all difficulties on Chasm Ten. Check it out!(Louis Wu 11:48:22 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy is still doing Friday Caption Fun – I LOVE that pic! Go caption it. (Louis Wu 11:46:16 UTC)

Kotaku has some Reach gameplay for you, and Shacknews has posted some Beta impressions. Check ’em. Plus, RVideo let us know about what purports to be the first Killimanjaro in Reach… not sure if it is, but nice anyway.(Louis Wu 11:45:52 UTC)

If you’ve got a copy of Halo 3: ODST, throw it in your DVD drive, and hit the ‘Play The Beta’ link at the bottom. No, the Beta’s not live yet – but you WILL get access to a very cool preview vid hosted by Aisha Tyler. She’s funny! (Louis Wu 11:45:25 UTC)

Three new pieces up for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – go read ’em! (Louis Wu 11:45:05 UTC)

Apologies for the lightness of news today (I say this in advance); I’m keeping my head down, doing non-Halo-related work, and won’t be around much to update. (Also, I was pretty disheartened by the whole “I didn’t get a code” thing I see everywhere; easier to just stay off forums.) I’ll clear out the news…

The biggest bit of news today was the announcement by Bungie that they’d entered into a partnership with Activision to publish their next game universe. Reaction was predominately negative; Activision has recently gone through some messy dealings with Infinity Ward, and gamers are a little gun-shy. We sat down to talk to Brian Jarrard and…

Trunks and Soto are giving away a few more codes – Jump over to their site to see how to snag one! Thanks, Trunks. Update: Trunks has even more at SureToBeBanned.com. Twitter required. Update 2: kapowaz pointed out that Bungie’s been asking random trivia questions on Twitter for the past hour or so – get…

So last night we put up a fun little Flash game (still up now, feel free to play) to collect data we’d be using to give out some F&F Reach Beta codes. It went really, really well. If you want a summary of how the gifting went, go read this. If you just want to…

Tied the Leader is offering a live feed showing off TTL Reach Beta gameplay… if you wanna watch, read up! Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 16:46:26 UTC)

dCon V noticed an article on Kotaku (and mendicantbias00 let us know about a similar one on Joystiq) about a rather odd marketing promotion – Microsoft is sending out Reach-branded hair clippers in a fancy case. (I guess the idea is that all you need to be a Spartan is a shaved pate…)(Louis Wu 16:35:20…

How very cool – if you visit Vehicles for GARMIN nuvi, you can download two Halo vehicles to use on your GARMIN nuvi GPS – a Ghost, and a Warthog. (Pics are just screensnaps; the interface is Flash-based.) Thanks to rocketwidget for noticing!(Louis Wu 16:27:23 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a guy who is putting on Spartan Armor… with a tattoo pen. Now THAT’S dedication! (Louis Wu 16:03:49 UTC)

pete_the_duck is looking to dust off his gameplay blog – and has some very specific ideas about what he wants to put in it. Go give his post a read, and then keep your eyes peeled for chances to contribute! (Louis Wu 16:00:47 UTC)

Minime noticed a bunch of Reach vids at IGN: IGN_Strategize: Halo Reach Armor Abilities is a video going over armor abilities. IGN Montage: Armor Abilities shows off these abilities in use. There are also a pair of gameplay vids: Long Range and Destroy. (Louis Wu 16:00:23 UTC)