We’ve mentioned the PBS broadcast on PBS a few times – PBS posted a new page with a press release, a teaser vid, and a short description. I can’t find it in my local listings yet… but it’s coming soon!(Louis Wu 14:59:54 UTC)

Wow… Belakor built a cardboard Oonsk, and then created a papercraft template for the little guy, so you can make your own. I know some folks who might be unhappy about that…(Louis Wu 14:44:52 UTC)

onebitrocket pointed out a new tweet from Marty O’Donnell (5:17 am his time!) which says ‘Finished!’ Does Marty mean his work on Reach? His work on an Official Reach Soundtrack? That bagel he started at 5 am? Here’s hoping we find out at some point. (Louis Wu 14:44:15 UTC)

Brian Choi was inspired to create a new Spartan Heavy Arms variant – lots of cool armor and weapons! (A larger version is visible in his DeviantART gallery.)(Louis Wu 14:43:13 UTC)

BuzzJuice let us know that IGN has posted a ’25 Most Wanted Games of 2010 – and Reach comes in at #3. (Both Civilization V and Fallout: New Vegas are higher.) Not bad! (Louis Wu 14:42:42 UTC)

Bungie’s Derek Carroll posted a pair of pics of Bungie employees standing next to the Reach Legendary packaging, to give you a sense of scale. And a laugh. (Thanks, Hydranockz.) (Louis Wu 14:42:03 UTC)

Waypoint’s GLYPH stopped in with word of a video interview with Todd McFarlane – he’s showing off the signed Legendary Reach statue that will be given away during the Halo Universes talk at the San Diego Comic-Con. Looks spectacular!(Louis Wu 14:39:57 UTC)

We showed off a cool spike grenade from smick6 last year – Hawty McBloggy noticed yesterday that one of them just went up for sale on eBay. You’ve got a day and a half left to make your decision; starting bid is $150, and MAN it’s pretty. (Louis Wu 14:39:10 UTC)

Eep – almost missed it, but one of the articles disussing the media event taking place at Bungie today mentioned ‘Digital Content’ and ‘Making of Videos & Extras’ as components of the Legendary Edition – it’s unclear whether this info came from some official (but as yet not public) release, or just verbally from a Bungie employee, or even whether it’s just a misunderstanding by the writer. When we know more, we’ll let you know! Thanks, The BS Police.(Louis Wu 18:24:53 UTC)

2good4u2 stopped in with word of Elephant Cannon 3, another installment in a series of launching vids on Sandtrap. After watching this, I want a car made out of whatever the Elephant’s built from – that thing doesn’t even have a DENT on it!(Louis Wu 18:18:10 UTC)

Mid7night has released his X-Plane Sparrowhawk model – you can now fly it in-game, if you use X-Plane. Go grab a copy!(Louis Wu 18:12:31 UTC)

This was mentioned a few days ago, but I forgot to follow up on it – last Friday, Major Nelson clarified that the Halo: Reach avatars coming out on Avatar Marketplace (we mentioned them on Bungie Day) will not, actually, be out until July 22. Sorry for the wait! Thanks to darknesshasfallen for reminding me to look again.(Louis Wu 18:09:39 UTC)

Last night, CaptainTony pointed out a new post at the Official Anime Central Blog that got our forum buzzing. Steve Downes was in town, and in the course of talking on aa panel, revealed a number of tidbits… including the fact that “He provided work for Halo: Reach.” What is the voice of John-117 doing on a game that shouldn’t include John-117? I guess we’ll find out! (One forum guess: Firefight voice.) He’s also doing work for Halo audio books. There are some other interesting tidbits – read ’em all!(Louis Wu 18:03:37 UTC)

Running way behind today because of an extra-long airport run – but back to fill in known action in the Halo universe! First up – a comic roundup, the first in quite a while.

• Chronicles of ODS Steve is back in the saddle, with ‘When Things Go Boom, Part 2 (#74)‘ going live today. Looks like Steve’s playing with something… dangerous.
• Today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del (“Valuable”) takes a shot at the whole ‘Collector’s Edition’ concept for videogames – and uses Halo Reach as its whipping boy. (Thanks, BlueNinja.)
• Reclaimer has a new episode live (thanks, TTL Demag0gue) – Stored Potential continues the ‘Head Flames are Alive’ storyline… and suggests that the Reclaimer might be in trouble.

Solid offerings from 3 long-time creators… go read ’em!(Louis Wu 17:58:46 UTC)