Marcus Lehto and Brian Jarrard talked to IGN – there’s a ton of great info. Will you be playing as all the members of Noble Team? Question Answered. Will the beta give you a flavor of what’s coming in the final product? Question Answered. Are multiplayer maps just going to be repurposed Campaign spaces? Question Answered. Is Brian rockin’ the ‘grizzled combat journalist’ look? Question Answered. Go watch. Thanks once again to NeoGAF’s Kibbles.(Louis Wu 13:31:42 UTC)

Pete Cooper stopped in with a pic from an in-progress Rocket Launcher being built by a denizen of the 405th – MAN does that look good!(Louis Wu 13:11:46 UTC)

For those who feel less than loved this Valentines Day, Hawty McBloggy’s got your back; she’s posted a collection of ten ‘UnValentines’, with Halo-themed rejection messages. Funny, useful, a little sad… yep! But wait… what if everything’s going great, but you want to send your love some Halo-themed gooey-ness? Don’t worry, she’s got that covered, too. Along with ‘not so nice eValentines’, and ‘dirty eValentines’, and ‘sweet eValentines’. Go check out the entire collection at one easy url: Hawty McBloggy’s Gamer eValentines. (Louis Wu 13:09:54 UTC)

Over at NeoGAF, Kibbles pointed out a Reach preview from TeamXbox – they really liked what they saw at X10. Give it a read. (Louis Wu 13:09:12 UTC)

I think maybe it’s time to call it quits with the Hide, Seek, Snap contest – a shame, really, since we still have seven codes left to give away, but there’s nobody left submitting solutions. We’ll give it another couple of days, I suppose. If you’re still missing a Johnson code for ODST’s Firefight, we want to help you!(Louis Wu 13:06:55 UTC)

rolandk73 went hunting through eBay in search of Halo goodies – he found some funky stuff. Check it! (Louis Wu 13:06:11 UTC)

Yesterday’s Ctrl-Alt-Del’s ‘silly’ makes an analogy I’m pretty sure I’d never have thought of myself… thanks, gunluva. And while we’re doing comics, we should (hmm, wrong word) mention Grin + Bear It, over at Hawty McBloggy’s – Luke is clearly a frustrated XXX scriptwriter.(Louis Wu 13:05:29 UTC)

Not surprisingly, the Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots collection this week is love-themed… go check out ‘Partners for Life’. Mostly safe for work (seeing as how they’re all wearing armor). (Louis Wu 13:03:21 UTC)

Hedgemony recently got a copy of ZBrush – and what’s the first thing he decided to model? Yeah, it’s Halo-related, baby! Go Hedge!(Louis Wu 13:01:33 UTC)

Batou has been creating custom Warhammer 40k models – check out some recent ones! Detailing is amazing…(Louis Wu 12:59:26 UTC)

PsH Bling walked around down in his MJOLNIR armor, and filmed it (maybe with a phone cam?). You can watch. There’s also a thread on the 405th Forums. (Louis Wu 12:59:00 UTC)

T51b noticed that a new Rooster Teeth series is coming to Halo Waypoint, starting next week – the trailer for ‘Grifball: Expansion’ is online now, and the first episode will be aired on February 20. We’ve put up 720p versions of the trailer on the web, for folks who want to see what they’d be missing: grab it in either WMP9 (32 mb) or QuickTime (26 mb) formats. (If you watch it on Waypoint, don’t miss other goodies, like Valentines screens, or the unsegmented version of Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian, or the new Reach ViDoc… or tons of other stuff!(Louis Wu 12:55:54 UTC)

GameTrailers posted a video countdown of the Top 10 Games of the Decade – Halo came in at #4. Nice! Thanks, Gtag=Reluctant Chaos.(Louis Wu 12:53:16 UTC)

Two early topics of discussion (and worry) about Halo: Reach were the presence (or absence) of class-based warfare and the presence (or absence) of Elites in Multiplayer. In a video interview over at Gamespot, Marcus Lehto nails down both of these issues, pretty clearly. (Fast-forward to about 1:30 in, if you’re impatient, though the whole interview is worth listening to.) Thanks, DEEP NNN. (Louis Wu 12:51:46 UTC)

We didn’t post this last night – but you should go read the Bungie Weekly Update, cause there’s lots of good stuff in it. There’s a recap of the Reach reveal this week (with some tantalizing comments about changes in how things work), along with a summary of the cash raised for Haiti, some information about ways you can win cool stuff for Reach by participating in the sendoff for Halo 2, a reminder of the 1 vs 100 show with Marty and Frank last night (did you watch?), and some Valentines goodies from Stosh. Check it out! As always, you can find a copy in our Weekly Update Archive, if you so choose.(Louis Wu 13:18:48 UTC)