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BuzzJuice pointed out a video feature on The Escapist called Extra Credits – a recent episode covered Music in Video Games, and Halo’s original theme got some serious love. The piece is pretty interesting outside of the Halo mention, too – go watch!(L…

Tex has found ways of entertaining herself with Halo, even when the Xbox is off. Tex seems… disturbed.(Louis Wu 22:23:09 UTC)

Tex has found ways of entertaining herself with Halo, even when the Xbox is off. Tex seems… disturbed.(Louis Wu 22:23:09 UTC)

XerxdeeJ stopped by to wish Halo 3 a Happy 3rd Birthday – and to raise a glass to the good times. I guess it’s Birthday Day!(Louis Wu 22:22:20 UTC)

Apparently, Yahoo has put up some Reach tips (five separate videos). Just as apparently, they’re pretty basic. Thanks, Mid7night.(Louis Wu 22:21:56 UTC)

FyreWulff is back with another Fire Team Zulu challenge – and a preview of a new site design. Go explore!(Louis Wu 22:21:37 UTC)

Kotaku pointed out that the Halo Reach Official Soundtrack cracked Billboard’s Top 200 highest-selling albums this past week – it was at #157. (This is the highest spot a Halo OST has ever reached – no pun intended.) It’s also in the Top 10 of Billboar…

ManKitten pointed out the Honor the Code commercial from Mountain Dew – how much are YOU drinking?(Louis Wu 20:49:22 UTC)

DHalo pointed out a new Invasion map he created, along with Ibeechu and Manelven – it’s called ‘Hallowed Valley’ and it uses most of Forge World. Go look at the pictures, and grab yourself a copy!(Louis Wu 20:48:55 UTC)

We got mail on Thursday morning from Pete Curran, Director of Firefly Productions UK, about a short video they created called ‘Bricking It’ – real-life armor abilities. (As Pete says, “it’s only a minute long. We’d have made it longer, but, you know, …

Bungie contributed their own writeup of the Humpday Challenge that took place this last Wednesday night – and for what might be the first time in history, their version of events matches ours! (All in all, it was a pretty fun night, and if Sketch hadn’…

wes was unhappy that nobody remembered to wish ODST a Happy Birthday on Wednesday… so here you go, ODST: HAPPY BIRTHDAY! You’re a small but scrappy member of the Halo family, and we love you a lot!(Louis Wu 20:46:36 UTC)

Trunks continues to honor Reach in his Sure to be Ban’d comic – he points out Episode 43, but Reach also figures in Episode 42.(Louis Wu 20:45:54 UTC)

JIMBOTHY decided to try and reproduce the Terminator Salvation theatrical trailer (the third one, to be precise) in the Reach engine. He did a pretty impressive job! (If you want to see them side-by-side, try this link; the synch is a touch off, but y…

Joe Duplessie noticed that Bungie’s Playlists page has been updated – there’s a date for Team SWAT (October 7), and a date for Coop Campaign (October 15). Read the whole page – there might be MORE you missed.(Louis Wu 19:30:36 UTC)

Nirvana, twisted to diabolical ends. Wait… is that possible? (Thanks to Anton P. Nym for finding this. It made me grin.)(Louis Wu 19:30:15 UTC)

Cracked.com has some features they wish were in Reach. I could get behind some of those… thanks, Penguin Ninjoid.(Louis Wu 19:29:55 UTC)

Toxic Mayhem found a couple of Reach-themed episodes of webcomics he reads – go check ’em out!(Louis Wu 19:29:36 UTC)

Andz whipped up a nice remake of Prisoner – check his post for screenies, and a download link. Mmmm… rockets…(Louis Wu 19:29:20 UTC)

Catching up – going back over our forum, picking out the gems you might have missed. (Certainly ones WE missed.) The only order here is chronological. I’ve got 7 so far, starting on Thursday morning, running through Thursday midday. After I post these…