Bungie’s Weekly Update is live at Bungie.net (and in our Weekly Update Archive) – it’s a pretty light one, overall. Hot dogs, high-res medals (these are, admittedly, gorgeous), new commendation badges. Good for speculatin’ – not so good for knowin’. Go read!(Louis Wu 23:57:57 UTC)

Back in December, AssaultGodzilla released an ODST tribute to Breaking Benjamin’s ‘I Will Not Bow’. He’s back with another one – same song, except this one is aimed at Spartans. Great choice of clips!(Louis Wu 19:35:43 UTC)

H3Wheelmen are running a new charity event – the 1st Memorial Hogoff, in memory of Ice Devil 13. Great play and great luck will both win you goodies. Read all the details at Bungie.net, or the H3Wheelmen’s website. They’re already over $1000 towards their $1500 goal for this event – help push ’em over the edge!(Louis Wu 18:24:14 UTC)

A new pair of montages for you, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter: Dutchy whipped up a Halo Reach Beta montage… and so did Just Mad. Both have lots of sick kills, both are heavy on the effects. Enjoy. (Louis Wu 18:23:51 UTC)

We forgot to point this out yesterday – but this week’s Double XP Weekend Playlist, Team Control, is live, and waiting for your controlling influence! Check all the details in urk’s post. (Louis Wu 18:23:26 UTC)

Kotaku found a few pictures of a Malaysian Master Chief – great outfit, cool weapon! Thanks to GrimBrother One for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 12:55:38 UTC)

FyreWulff announced a new Fire Team Zulu challenge this morning – Tanks for the Memories is a Campaign challenge on Kizingo Blvd (two difficulties available), while The Dark Night is a Firefight challenge on Rally (Night) – also with a pair of difficulties open to you. Pick the one that appeals to you the most (or both!), and submit your entries!(Louis Wu 12:55:16 UTC)

CE United’s Willy is back with a new 20 Questions interview – this one was held with TTL’s XerxdeeJ. Go read about how Tied the Leader got its start, what was good and bad about the Reach Beta, and how a good society is maintained. Great read!(Louis Wu 12:54:43 UTC)

This… is just wrong.(Louis Wu 12:54:21 UTC)

Over at Hawty McBloggy’s, it’s time for another week of Friday Caption Fun – highest-rated captions from last week’s entry, plus a new entry showing off a… new side of the Master Chief. Go play!(Louis Wu 12:53:30 UTC)