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Don’t forget – The Package (the full episode this time, not just the second half) is visible at Halo Waypoint, today only; while it MIGHT be available again before February, there are no guarantees. If you’ve got a Gold account, take 15 minutes and go watch!(Louis Wu 16:11:48 UTC)

Geoff Keighley continues to pimp Reach for tonight’s VGAs – swing by Bungie.net for a 30-second dose of hype!(Louis Wu 16:11:08 UTC)

Yesterday, we mentioned a cool Bungie studio visit that was up for auction at Child’s Play – Laird sent us a phone cam photo of the booklet entry, so the rest of you can drool over what you didn’t get your hands on. (I don’t know what the final price was, but Laird dropped out…

Bungie’s Weekly Update is live – there’s some info about the trailer that’s dropping tomorrow on Spike’s Video Game Awards, there’s info on the upcoming changes to the Reach project page, there’s some pimping (we already mentioned the deal, but hey, if you follow their link, Bungie gets a bigger cut), there’s info on the…

The hype for the Reach teaser to be shown on Saturday night on the VGAs continues – Destructoid talked to Geoff Keighley, who has lots of good things to say about it:Clocking in at two minutes and thirty seconds, it’s “basically the opening of the game,” and will give gamers the first look at the…

Stuntmutt stopped in to point out that Pocket Gamer wonders whether the Karl Wardin character from the upcoming iPhone shooter ‘N.O.V.A.’ looks a lot like the Master Chief…? (From looking at the trailer Stunt linked to, I’d say that the first gun you see has definite Battle Rifle overtones… but the gameplay itself looks more…

Bungie is notoriously tight-lipped about things like deadlines; after all, they STILL haven’t lived down the “We’re still waiting for the boxes!” excuse for the delay in Marathon’s release in 1994. Sometimes, though, logistics require releasing a LITTLE bit of information – and sharp-eyed fans can turn that into something they can hold on to.…

CraveOnline has a list of the ’10 Best Stories in Gaming’ – Halo 2’s dual-perspective narrative made the list. Go read the rest!(Louis Wu 15:09:55 UTC)

Friday Caption Fun is back at Hawty McBloggy’s – great captions from last week’s pics, and a truly funky new pic just waiting for your words of wisdom are waiting for you just around the bend.(Louis Wu 13:34:28 UTC)

Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft’s product management director, believes Reach will be the biggest game of 2010. That’s big talk about a single-platform product… do you agree? Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 13:31:06 UTC)

Willy’s back with another 20 Questions from CE United – the interview with bs angel is so important, it spans both November and December. Needs moar double entendres. Go read it anyway.(Louis Wu 13:28:39 UTC)

There’s a fascinating look back at the development of the Halo 3 multiplayer map Construct over at Bungie.net – the designers discussed how it started, what changed over time, and what they’d do differently at this stage. You can read it and think “oh, man, they should have stuck with this idea!” or “why did…

Twelve new pieces are up this week in the Fan Fiction section – it’s alive again! Go read.(Louis Wu 13:25:50 UTC)

IGN’s posted their latest Top 10 Kills of the Week feature – remember, you can win free stuff by submitting. Number 8 made me laugh. ANd Number 3 is some awesome golfing. Go watch!(Louis Wu 23:41:44 UTC)

Team Kootra put together another fun vid that machinima.com released today – Team Fortress 2 meets Halo 3. Those poor Spartans…(Louis Wu 22:10:58 UTC)

Bungie’s updated the Reach project page, in anticipation of the video to be shown Saturday night on the Spike Video Game Awards. There’s not a lot of new material yet (most of what went live today was structure, not content), but the hype is building – go get some!(Louis Wu 22:10:16 UTC)

Major Silva wrote to point out a newspost on Grifball.com – apparently, Winter League signups for Grifball are really low, and they’re desperately looking for extra teams. If you’re interested in playing, go now – signups close soon! (Either today or tomorrow, depending on which newspost is right.)(Louis Wu 22:04:39 UTC)

This week’s Double EXP Weekend playlist is totally new – ‘Prepare to Drop’ is an “ODST Inspired” playlist, smgs and magnums for the most part (though the VIP escort games have BRs in ’em). Head over to Bungie.net for full details. Update: ZaneZavin pointed out that this list ran once before – the weekend ODST…

Active Anime once again has the first copy of a new interview with Hiroshi Yamazaki, the director of the Halo Legends episode ‘The Duel’. Give it a read for insight into the development of the project!(Louis Wu 19:41:46 UTC)

Three new montages for you, over at Bungie’s Comm Chatter:whitesoxrule created a Community Tags montage he calls ‘Epic’ – screenshots culled from Bungie’s enormous Community Files collection. Edge whipped up his first Halo 3 montage – 100% MLG. Sniper Heaven.Chase built his first Halo 3 montage as well, this one full of MLG footage too.…