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RVideo was the first to point out a new song from Mac and Cheese – it’s called ‘Master Chief Left Me’, and it’ll make you cry. (Not so much from the story, either.)(Louis Wu 16:44:39 UTC)

Adam De La Rosa let us know about a new image created by Halcylon and posted recently on Hawty McBloggy’s forum it’s called ‘We Are ODST’, and while it was inspired by the live-action flick, all the imagery comes from the game. Nice piece of work!(Louis Wu 16:42:26 UTC)

Thre are tons of new Halo-related positions available at Microsoft – go see if there’s anything for you! (Thanks to LazerBlader, who found it on Halo Waypoint’s Facebook page.)(Louis Wu 16:12:06 UTC)

GameTrailers TV Episode 222, broadcasting tonight on Spike TV at 12:30 am, will contain ‘behind-the-scenes access’ to the making of the live-action ‘We Are ODST’ short released recently. Watch it, record it, or find it on GameTrailers tomorrow! Thanks, Felix Mui.(Louis Wu 16:07:48 UTC)

Minime637 pointed out a video showing Master’s Challenge at PAX, playing Firefight. Funny commentary. (Louis Wu 16:03:18 UTC)

LoneRanger 2.5 pointed out a couple of G4TV pieces you might be interested in – they interviewed Brian Jarrard at PAX (sort of a wide-ranging discussion about game sales, and ODST, and Reach, and Bungie, and marketing, and more – it’s huge), and there’s info about an episode of X-Play broadcasting tonight (Thursday) at 6:30…

Blaidd Dawg noticed a photo posted by Major Nelson, showing off the packaging for the Halo 3: ODST Limited Edition. Not exactly what I thought it was going to look like! (Louis Wu 16:02:08 UTC)

Zerowind117 let our forum know that his college (Arizona State University) has a single-player Firefight booth set up for folks to mess with. Are these at other schools, too? (Firefight in single player… what?)(Louis Wu 16:01:35 UTC)

Joystiq has an article about Xbox Canada and their search for Canada’s biggest Halo fan – if you live in Canada, go check this out! Thanks, mendicantbias00. (Louis Wu 16:01:07 UTC)

IGN posted a 90-second interview with Joe Staten, recorded at PAX while he was wearing ODST armor – thanks, Minime637.(Louis Wu 16:00:36 UTC)

Minime637 pointed out an article at VideoGamer.com, with some quotes from ODST Producer Alex Cutting about how wonderful a partner Bungie is for Microsoft. Nice words!(Louis Wu 16:00:13 UTC)

Bungie has posted the entire PAX panel on Halo 3: ODST – it’s on YouTube, and you can watch all 8 10-minute segments in their news post about it. If you’d rather watch it on YouTube (why?), here’s a link to the playlist itself (just follow the links on the right after you’ve watched the…

A couple of new videos posted yesterday at Bungie.net:The Lucky 20, Episode 3 contains a bunch of clips of those “did you see that?” moments from Halo 3 matchmakingMini Waz posted a montage, including fun stuff that’s happened to him over the past year.Go watch!(Louis Wu 15:26:12 UTC)

Yesterday, the second week of The Spartan Special Ops Favorites went live – there’s an interview about the map ‘Templar’, and all the new goodies in Bungie Favorites.(Louis Wu 15:25:27 UTC)

Elnea pointed out an armor project from a member of the RvB community, Colonel. Everything down to grenades in there! Check out the pics.(Louis Wu 10:29:03 UTC)

Yesterday, over at NeoGAF, Domino Theory stumbled across a newspost from Gamezine.co.uk that suggested that new Halo Reach footage would debut at the Tokyo Game Show (September 24-27). Everyone got excited until SketchFactor informed the board that Bungie neither created this footage, nor knew of its existence. Bummer!(Louis Wu 10:16:02 UTC)

VelocityTino sent word that he’d created a tribute image to pay his respects to Peter Marks (see yesterday’s post for details). A very nice gesture! (Louis Wu 10:15:36 UTC)

Morpheus announced winners of his multikill contest – didn’t end the way *I*’d expected, but then, anyone could vote multiple times, so… (Louis Wu 10:15:01 UTC)

Yesterday, Kotaku posted an article called “How And Why Halo 3: ODST Was Made In 14 Months” – it’s a fascinating read that tells the story of how a small team of old-school Bungie employees found themselves in the company of Mr. Opportunity. Go read it. (Looks like a thread popped up discussing this article…

Narcogen and Blackstar are back together again in very short order – and a nearly-2.5-hour-long podcast covering the entirety of the level ‘The Covenant’ is the result. They’re still on target to finish the Halo 3 campaign levels before ODST drops – but it’s a really accelerated pace. Go grab a copy! (Louis Wu 10:14:07…