We got word of a Halo: Reach Beta Trick Jumping vid from K R ii Z ii C, FACC x Ryahoe x, and Resix. (Yes, that’s far too many z’s and x’s in just three names.) Some cool stuff – not a lot of time to test it out for yourself, though!(Louis Wu 19:51:55 UTC)

Mjolnir Tactics has a whole passel of panoramas for your viewing pleasure – so get to viewing! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 19:27:20 UTC)

Ready to go back to Halo 3? This week’s Double XP Weekend Playlist is Living Dead. Go kill some zombies!(Louis Wu 19:20:42 UTC)

The Halo: Reach Beta is still going (I just finished a Headhunter game in 2nd place, with 22 skulls), but things are getting weird; if you play, you might experience some unpredictable stuff. Officially… it’s done. You play now, you’re playing at your own risk.(Louis Wu 19:18:38 UTC)

Just a single full-length vid available today in Bungie’s Comm Chatter: Killpie has a new Ten FTW episode – Halo: Reach Beta Kills. Lots of multikills.(Louis Wu 19:16:55 UTC)

Stone Temple Pilots’ Scott Weiland is the next celebrity up for a Halo ‘Game with Fame’ date – he’ll be online on Tuesday, June 1 to play Halo 3 with LIVE Gold members. Full details at Xbox.com.(Louis Wu 12:05:47 UTC)

Stone Temple Pilots’ Scott Weiland is the next celebrity up for a Halo ‘Game with Fame’ date – he’ll be online on Tuesday, June 1 to play Halo 3 with LIVE Gold members. Full details at Xbox.com.(Louis Wu 12:05:47 UTC)

IGN posted their Top Reach Kills of the Week for May 19 – little bit of a lot of things, but the focus seems to be on cool assassinations. Check it!(Louis Wu 12:03:22 UTC)

IGN posted their Top Reach Kills of the Week for May 19 – little bit of a lot of things, but the focus seems to be on cool assassinations. Check it!(Louis Wu 12:03:22 UTC)

Cozmo23 played 500 games in the Halo: Reach Beta – and put together a montage when he was finished. Three and a half minutes of fun… (Louis Wu 12:02:27 UTC)

Cozmo23 played 500 games in the Halo: Reach Beta – and put together a montage when he was finished. Three and a half minutes of fun… (Louis Wu 12:02:27 UTC)

VAVA Mk2 was the first on our forum to notice a Joystiq article about an intent to reissue the first three Halo novels (The Fall of Reach, Halo: The Flood, and First Strike) as trade paperbacks, with “updates and all-new original content.” Our forum isn’t thrilled with the idea of retconned novels (I suppose, though, that “updates” could simply mean “typos fixed”), or with the cover art shown so far… but there’s some interesting conversation nonetheless. Go join it! (The new, full cover for Fall of Reach is here.) Update: Halo Waypoint has clarified (on their Facebook page) that ‘updates’ are just stuff like typos, punctuation errors, and the like – no rewrites.

The original story has NOT been altered. If that were the case “new content” would have been listed as “rewritten,” which is not the case.

This is the first time TOR’s publishing these particular books. No retconning happening! Thanks, mendicantbias, for pointing this out.(Louis Wu 11:52:57 UTC)

H3Wheelmen.com is hosting the First Annual Charity Hog-off – they’re challenging the Halo community to get as many Wheelmen medals and Warthog gunner kills as possible in Halo 3 slayer-based Matchmaking playlists during the month of June. They’ve got some cool prizes for the winners – swing by the Bungie.net news post for full details! (Louis Wu 11:52:35 UTC)