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Hmm… looks like Arby ‘n’ The Chief are coming back – in a new venue.(Louis Wu 13:02:28 UTC)

MLG Anaheim kicks off this Friday – and the official press release hit the newswire last night. You can read it at Reuters.(Louis Wu 13:02:07 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has some photos of a fan-made Flood infection form created from a box of holiday decorations – amazing piece of work! (Do not visit if you’re eating.) Also, while you’re there, check out the depressing cake topper you can buy if your fiancée is anti-Halo…(Louis Wu 12:59:28 UTC)

Domino Theory picked a winner from the nearly 700 entries to our Touch The Sound contest – contratulations to Benn43, who will soon have a fresh new copy of the Halo 3: ODST Official Soundtrack! Thanks, as always, to Domino Theory, for the continuing series of awesome freebies to the Halo community!(Louis Wu 21:21:57 UTC)

The Tag and Release feature on Bungie.net this week focuses on images collected on the map ‘Rally Point’ – truly amazing shots. See for yourself!(Louis Wu 21:10:41 UTC)

This weekend, Hawty McBloggy posted the latest episode of Grin + Bear It (old joke, new context) and highlighted a ridiculous collection of Limited Edition Xboxes (these are just the NEW ONES, since February), including two ODST models. Oh, to have that much money! Go look.(Louis Wu 21:08:23 UTC)

New vids, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter:Day of Recon is two and a half minutes of Recon-seeking Zombies from Team ReplayHere Comes the Sun is a long montage from LiL PAYN3Phurion Presents – Fiesta Weekend is a montage of clips from the recent Fiesta Double XP weekend (nicely timed)Go watch!(Louis Wu 18:06:19 UTC)

36 pumpkins made it into this year’s Guilt O’ Lantern contest – and there are some spectacular entries! Swing by and cast your vote for your five favorite pumpkins – let’s see if we can’t give some prizes away!(Louis Wu 14:30:20 UTC)

Pwn or Die got their hands on a new product announcement from Lipton – it’s Halo 3: ODST Diet Tea, and the description should make you smile. The price, too. (Louis Wu 12:02:30 UTC)

There’s a tiny taste of an upcoming panoramic video using ODST images on YouTube – thanks, Decadence Night.(Louis Wu 21:11:48 UTC)

The Top 10 Halo 3 Screenshots feature this week on I <3 Halo 3 Screenshots focuses on ‘Creatures of the Night’ – some truly spooky shots in there! Go look.(Louis Wu 21:01:30 UTC)

nico (the guy behind Red vs Blue’s music, among other things) was cleaning out some old projects recently, and found a funny version of Blood Gulch Blues – its existence owes itself partially to a new (for nico, at the time) guitar, a ’73 Fender Telecaster Deluxe, and partially to alcohol – the end result…

Mad Cow went all out for his college football team (the Boise State Broncos) – he repainted his Spartan Armor orange. Check out the photo!(Louis Wu 19:53:15 UTC)

AssaultGodzilla is back with another Halo Music Video – this one is set to This is Halloween (originally from The Nightmare Before Christmas, here performed by Marilyn Manson), and (as usual) is nicely timed. Go watch! (Louis Wu 19:52:04 UTC)

Remember – you’ve got a bit less than 6 hours, as of the time of this writing, to get your pumpkin pics into our Guilt O’ Lantern contest… carve like the wind!(Louis Wu 22:24:20 UTC)

After Marty publicly challenged the world to find the Siege of Madrigal, he posted an extended challenge in the Marty Army fanclub – first person to upload a movie showing the egg would win a signed copy of the Halo 3: ODST OST. PyroSporker16 and ZPO4O were the first to the finish line… and for…

The Bungie Weekly Update went live a bit early this week – you can go read it on Bungie.net, or in our Weekly Update Archive. What’s in it? Oh… good stuff. Discussion of the recent Reach playtest, lots and lots of in-game Halloween shots, lots and lots and LOTS of real-life Halloween shots. Good stuff.…

Hawty McBloggy and friends are participating in an Xbox LIVE Community Playdate at the end of November – you can find full details at Xbox.com. Swing by to see how you can play! Thanks to mendicantbias00 for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 20:03:12 UTC)

If you’re not in on the Xbox LIVE Preview, you can swing by Kotaku and view a video of Waypoint, as viewed by Stephen Totilo. A view of some of the awards you can snag, and more. Thanks, dCon V. Update: there’s a screenshot-based walkthrough from FyreWulff on our own forum!(Louis Wu 19:05:18 UTC)

FrekldThunder has a pair of kids that wanted to be ODST characters for Halloween – check out how he did!Framework Framework (Closeup) First Layer All Grey Final – Side Final – Front(His daughter’s helmet started as a standard ODST helmet, but she convinced him she wanted Recon – he did a decent job just with…