As Dani says, when it rains, it pours, and we can’t help but get wet. Swing by Forward Unto Dawn for not one, but TWO new articles – there’s the second portion of their three-part ‘Backwards From Dawn’ retrospective on Halo 2, and there’s a new article called ‘The Centre Holds‘ (yes, they’re from the UK), which looks at a totally separate part of the Halo universe – the Insurrectionists, who (until the Covenant appeared) were the biggest threat the UNSC had ever faced. It even comes with original artwork. Go read ’em both!(Louis Wu 23:33:34 UTC)

Dying for info about how Bungie.net’s gonna be handling your Reach Beta data? Swing by Bungie.net – there’s a story that talks all about it. With pretty pictures, even. w00t!(Louis Wu 22:56:59 UTC)

TTL Hoovaloov is back with another Reach video analysis – his last go-round was a resounding success, and this one is just as well-thought-out. Watch this for our best overview so far of the Invasion gametype! Thanks to XerxdeeJ for the heads-up on this one.(Louis Wu 19:23:58 UTC)

Rockslider is back with another couple of movies – he’s messing around on Silent Cartographer, doling out pain to the poor Grunts hanging out above the crashed Pelican. Swing by his forum post for links to the writeups, and the movies!(Louis Wu 18:17:48 UTC)

ColinD2197 sent word of Capulin 2 – a tribute to Halo 2 from SicktistiK and Emptyproductions. Nice editing, nice gameplay… and a reminder of how bad some of the spawns were in Halo 2.(Louis Wu 18:01:33 UTC)

Planet Xbox 360 has a story about the upcoming packaging for Halo Reach – according to them, there’ll be the same three versions that Halo 3 had: Regular, Limited, and Legendary. No further details are available at this time. No confirmation from an official source exists. Thanks to 2900d4u for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 17:10:14 UTC)

Vids available for you today via Bungie’s Comm Chatter: Anoj posts Bungie Explains Episode 5 – with info about Powerhouse and Swordbase… and Static Hazard and iSNAXY have put together a Halo 3 dualtage called ‘Bullet Theory’ – lots of MLG footage. Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:57:20 UTC)

Yesterday, kidtsunami noticed that urk was answering general Reach Beta questions in a Bungie.net thread. I pulled all his answers out for readability (it’s a 30-page thread at this point, and urk only answered 17 questions), but waited until this morning to ensure he was finished. You can read the results on this page.(Louis Wu 13:42:42 UTC)

Gamebashing has an interview with DeepCee, the artist behind ODS Steve – thanks, Hawty.(Louis Wu 13:38:41 UTC)