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We mentioned the Guardian’s Top 50 Games of the Noughties piece yesterday – the second installment (30-11) went live today, and Halo: Combat Evolved came in at #14. Slots 10-6 tomorrow – will any other Halo titles make the list? (Louis Wu 13:22:29 UTC)

GhettoMole whipped up a little digital painting of Cortana, and wanted you all to see it – swing by his DeviantART gallery and take a look at Cortana and Index! (Louis Wu 13:21:56 UTC)

G4TV’s Joe Paulding let us know about a new batch of Real Life Achievements over at X-Play – the Master Chief makes an appearance. Check ’em out! (Louis Wu 13:21:27 UTC)

GameVideos got a minute to talk to Marty O’Donnell and Curtis Creamer backstage at the VGAs last week – not a huge amount of info, but worth watching, it’s only 90 seconds! Thanks to NeoGAF’s Tashi0106 for noticing.(Louis Wu 13:21:05 UTC)

Last month, we mentioned AdweekMedia’s ‘Commercial of the Decade’ poll to pick the best commercial of the first 10 years of the 21st century, because Halo’s Believe ad had made the finalists. We thought we’d follow up – it didn’t win. (Still holds a special place in the Halo fan’s heart, though!)(Louis Wu 13:19:09 UTC)

Firestorm12 let us know that the winners to Halopen’s week-long Pen is Mightier than the Sword Contest were announced a few days ago. You can check out ALL the entries in this thread. (Louis Wu 13:18:44 UTC)

Bungie released their latest ‘Tag and Release’ feature yesterday – pictures snapped on Crater. Fun shots – go look!(Louis Wu 13:18:14 UTC)

After a multi-month hiatus, Halo0001 X, of TripleZeroFilms, is back with another episode of Mandlbaum in: “Core Tempature”.Good thing I cleaned out my garage, because I found the next installment in Mandlbaum’s greatest adventure ever! Things are looking bleak for Mandlbaum as his enemies continue to mass their power. Evil plans are coming to fruition…

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…