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Buttskunk ran across an article at Bam! Kapow! – 11 gamer personalities, and what they look like in real life. #4 is pretty Halo-centric. (Louis Wu 16:11:52 UTC)

Bryan Simon is facilitating a giveaway of a custom-painted controller from The Controller Shop – you just need to make a video explaining why you need this. (His example vid uses Halo 3 footage, sneaking this news in as ‘Halo-related’.) (Louis Wu 16:11:29 UTC)

Ah, bummer – yesterday, we mentioned that ODST would be available to be played at Fan Expo this weekend in Toronto – turns out it’s been pulled. If you were going just to play ODST – save your cash.(Louis Wu 16:11:02 UTC)

RVideo pointed out an 8-player, 3-director montage being promoted over at Halo3Forum.com – only the third segment is available in HD right now (the whole thing can be streamed from WeGame) – but after watching it, the third segment is by far the most impressive, so if you want to see some cool editing effects,…

It’s Wednesday – Bungie’s Favorites are updated. This week is the second batch of files from Tactical Gaming – go read about the map Sacrifice, and then look at everything else that’s up!(Louis Wu 19:07:13 UTC)

If you haven’t preordered Halo 3: ODST yet, Bungie has actually put an Amazon link in their blog – looks like if you use it to order, they get a cut! (Sort of makes you wonder if MS is actually paying them for this game…) Go support Bungie – order with their link!(Louis Wu 19:03:02…

Inside Gaming has an interview with CJ Cowan, recorded during Gamescom last week – go listen! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:29:25 UTC)

The Bungie Blog has word of 2nd Degree, a Halo 3 montage featuring gameplay from Nightmare and Assault. Nearly 10 minutes long, all MLG gameplay. Pretty impressive multikills! (Louis Wu 17:27:17 UTC)

Co-Optimus has a fun little writeup of an evening spent co-oping on Halo 3 – it’ll make you smile.(Louis Wu 17:25:21 UTC)

Facility B5D has released their third podcast – swing by Bungie.net for information and a download link. 82 minutes, 70 mb. Interview with CMNeir inside.(Louis Wu 17:24:38 UTC)

pete_the_duck’s back with another challenge – and it’s a doozy. He calls it ‘Mythtacular’, and it’s an obstacle course on Sandbox. Beat it… and you win pete’s undying admiration. (Well, it might die after a little while.) Don’t play it to win stuff – play it because it looks like a WHOLE lotta fun. (Why…

Two funnies for you today: Hawty McBloggy let us know about ODS Steve #39 (Return of the ‘Mhack) – Sarge meets someone new… and TTL Demag0gue told us about Reclaimer 210 (Scoreless) – Score discovers something maybe better left undiscovered. (At least by him.) Go read!(Louis Wu 13:14:12 UTC)

And… it looks like another Bungie game is about to be leaked… by the French. CaLL Me ZeNy pointed out a YouTube vid showing the unpacking of a copy of Halo 3: ODST, purchased over the counter from a French store almost 4 weeks before its official release. There are no spoilers in this video…

GameTrailers has posted another filmed-off-the-screen presentation (Part 1 | Part 2) from Gamescom – this one’s an awful lot like the Gamersyde recording we mentioned on Sunday – but if you’re doing your best to see everything out there, you should watch this too. (Louis Wu 10:54:31 UTC)

Dojorkan rewrote the lyrics of The Lonely Island’s “I’m on a boat” to be more Halo-related. It’s still not safe for work… but it’s pretty funny. (Not to be outdone, Pete Cooper submitted his own rewrite, “I’m in a Hog”.) (Louis Wu 10:51:29 UTC)

Connor Sauve let us know that the OpenSauce SDK 2.0, a package of tools from Kornman to help folks build Halo Custom Edition content, has been released – swing by Modacity to read about what it does, and to grab a copy. If you do ANY dabbling in the creation of content for Halo Custom…

Brian Jarrard attempted to convince a videogamer.com reporter that pixel counting doesn’t actually do a game justice – but the ‘we’ve lost 80 pixels’ argument that surfaced when it was learned that the Halo 3 engine actually renders in 640p rather than 720p is back. Whee! (Louis Wu 10:44:12 UTC)

Want a chance to win a Limited Edition Halo 3: ODST Console and game? Swing by Mountain Dew’s twitter page – apparently, they’re giving this away today. Thanks, big ander. (Louis Wu 10:38:01 UTC)

Kibbles noticed a video on YouTube showing an Inside Xbox feature from LIVE – Major Nelson presents the ODST transport truck during its inaugural stop. Nice footage of inside and out. I decided the YouTube vid didn’t do the truck justice, so you can grab HD versions from us (1280×720, 80 or 90 mb, depending…

Bloogyo let us know about Lawltage 4, another compilation of funny/odd clips from Matchmaking. Definitely some entertaining clips in there! (Louis Wu 10:35:51 UTC)