Interesting interview with Brian Jarrard and Chris Carney over at Gamasutra this morning – they discuss the Halo Reach Beta, and the take-home messages from it. It’s a monster – 6 pages of good questions and better answers, lots of info about how the lessons learned in the Beta will be applied in the final game. Check it out! (Looks like Epyon MX noticed this too – if you’re looking for a place to discuss this, use his thread!) (Louis Wu 14:55:13 UTC)

Minime637 was browsing YouTube, and ran across a vehicle montage with some nice gameplay – go check out oaklesss’ Vehicular Annihilation.(Louis Wu 14:52:54 UTC)

Exige created what he thinks Spartan-II emblem should look like… pretty snazzy!(Louis Wu 14:35:35 UTC)

Ready for more Fire Team Zulu challenges from FyreWulff? Banshee Battle is a Campaign challenge on Kikowani Station, while Post Mortem is a Firefight challenge on Alpha Site. Pick your poison – and kill some Covies!(Louis Wu 14:31:48 UTC)

Willy’s back with another 20 Questions for the month of June – he interviewed Krewtaun, a guy who makes videos highlighting entertaining dialogue in the Halo campaign. Fun read!(Louis Wu 14:29:15 UTC)

We missed this when it went live a couple of days ago, but Stephen Loftus’ Scale Comparison can now be found on Halo Waypoint – it’s even got new artwork that isn’t in the HBO-hosted version! If you’ve got Xbox LIVE, swing by and check it out! Thanks to both General Vagueness (who noticed the announcement before it went live) and doober187 (who pointed out the actual article). (Louis Wu 14:09:43 UTC)

Pennybags stopped in with a heartwarming story from the MLG forums – a community outpouring for a kid who just wants to play with pros. Check it out! (Louis Wu 14:08:40 UTC)

There’s a full game of Firefight, recorded on the map Beachhead, by the Halo Waypoint team – no voiceovers, just gameplay. (Not always very GOOD gameplay – but gameplay.) You get a great sense of the level itself, see what Wraiths can do, and so on. Thanks, GrimBrother One! (Louis Wu 14:04:00 UTC)

Thursdays come awfully fast these days – I totally missed it when one went by yesterday. But if you were paying attention, the latest Double EXP Weekend Playlist went live then – and you can go play Living Dead right now (through Monday morning). Social 13-player FFA… with lots of brains. (Louis Wu 14:02:58 UTC)

Inside Gaming awarded Halo Reach ‘Best Online Multiplayer’ in their E3 Wrap-Up. Also, Ten FTW looked at the Top 10 Xbox 360 games at E3 2010 – Halo Reach came in at the number one slot. Thanks, The Alpha Elite. (Louis Wu 13:57:58 UTC)

The Fan Fiction section has been augmented with six new pieces – go read ’em! Also on the fanfic front, we got word from MaxRealflugel that a consortium of Bungie.net groups (FanFicFactor, The Mirratord and The Writing Guild) have gotten together to put together a fan-created fan fiction/fanart collection called Revolutions. (Yes, it’s modeled after Halo: Evolutions.) It should be available this fall in PDF format. When it’s been released, we’ll let you know!(Louis Wu 13:55:56 UTC)

The Reach Development team hit ‘ZBR’ (Zero Bug Release) last night at midnight – there’s a note at the Reach Developer Blog discussing the milestone, and a Twitpic showing off Marcus smashing the countdown clock in the back behind the studio. Thanks to Hedge for the heads-up!(Louis Wu 13:40:58 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a pretty cool Master Chief stamp – what a way to add a Halo touch to your correspondence!(Louis Wu 18:35:39 UTC)

More Reach coverage – CNet has a 37-minute video podcast in which Reach is played (the Campaign footage is the same as we’ve seen a dozen times during E3, but the Firefight footage is worth watching – Halo footage starts around 17 minutes in), and Joystiq has a preview with… well, no new info. Thanks to Domino Theory and Dani, respectively, for the links. Update: Another article at Kotaku, discussing difficulty – thanks, GrimBrother One.(Louis Wu 17:57:08 UTC)