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The Thursday War is now available – get your copy today!(Louis Wu 16:14:58 UTC)

MLG celeb Walshy has released a video that looks at how grenades have worked in past Halo games… and speculates on what this means in Halo 4. I found it fascinating – definitely worth your time. Thanks, Pok3R Fac3D. (Louis Wu 16:10:08 UTC)

I saw this yesterday on Halo Waypoint, but didn’t get to posting it – Globe is creating Halo-branded shoes and a skateboard. Funky!(Louis Wu 16:08:04 UTC)

If you live in Europe, Microsoft is running a promotion that might interest you. Twenty lucky fans (five each from the UK, France, Spain, and Germany) will be whisked to an unknown location on October 30 for what will almost certainly be an amazing ex…

More Eurogamer content: The Halo Council’s web guy, Kritical, shares his opinions (thanks, CyReN) CheckpointGamesFeed gets footage of a private presentation on Halo 4 (thanks, ElzarTheBam) LiteralGaming has 11 minutes of Flood gamplay on Complex -…

I laughed – thanks, padraig08. (Louis Wu 15:56:11 UTC)

Recently, 343 Industries’ Lead Campaign Designer, Jesse Snyder, took some time to take some questions from the community over Twitter. Fortunately, he decided to forgo the 140-character limitation of the little bird network and post the answers on his …

The sound and the fury…

The DewXP.com website is now live – visit for prizes, rules, and more. (Everything goes active on October 15 – there’s a handy-dandy countdown on the page to let you know when you can start entering codes.)(Louis Wu 16:58:04 UTC)

RC Master has kicked off a new YouTube channel – RC’s Video Game School. The first video, as he showed on our forum, will teach you how to assassinate Sword Elites in Halo: Reach’s campaign. (Yeah… this probably isn’t as easy as he makes it look.) (…

More Ragnarok/Mantis stuff – Paul B. put up a 9-minute game showing a couple of runs in the Mantis (thanks, CyReN), while Shadders wrote up his thoughts on his blog. HaloForum put together a compilation vid showing offscreen Mantis video (thanks, Elzar…

We’ve seen a lot of off-screen Halo 4 footage, but not a huge amount of high-level gameplay. CyReN pointed out links to some gameplay by BilzozANinja – this video shows a 5-minute game that includes a Sticky Detonator Extermination (it happens right a…

NartFOpc and some friends were playing in Matchmaking, and most of the other team quit. Sometimes… you gotta make your own fun!(Louis Wu 15:46:02 UTC)

Postmortem announced the winner of the first week’s entries for his Visualizing the Halo Universe contest – congrats, TDSpiral! Check out the post for comments on all entries!(Louis Wu 15:44:16 UTC)

The big news this morning is a double-punch – it’s information that came out last week, unofficially, but the embargo has been raised, and 343 wants you to get an eyeful. Halo 3’s Valhalla is back… in Halo 4, it’s called Ragnarok. (The remake, at lea…

Dogiojoe pointed out a fan-made Halo 4 trailer that will do a nice job of pumping you up! (Louis Wu 19:50:32 UTC)

nomis78 stopped by to announce a writeup of the UK Preview event he attended last week – swing by Community Customs to read the details!(Louis Wu 19:48:50 UTC)

Shadders interviewed Frank O’Connor in London recently – the first half (non-embargoed questions/answers) is online now. Go read it! Thanks, TheOddOne.(Louis Wu 19:45:52 UTC)