The Halo fan who’s been showing up at Saints games all season long (we last mentioned him in October) made the front page of CNN.com yesterday. Avateur grabbed the shot. (Louis Wu 18:12:28 UTC)

Wired Magazine looks at how age affects players of First-Person Shooters; they talk to ‘Grandpa Walsh’ – a 25-year-old pro. Apparently, it’s not really that older players are worse – it’s that younger players are better.(Louis Wu 18:03:45 UTC)

ZaneZavin put together a few clips that he calls ‘Luck Halo‘ – fun moments! Just two minutes long. (Louis Wu 18:02:58 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy’s Inappropriate Halo: Reach Emblem Contest is over, and she’s posted the winner (and a gallery of honorable mentions). That woman can make ANYTHING sexual…(Louis Wu 18:02:30 UTC)

The Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots theme this week is ‘Strike a Pose’ – I’m lovin’ these!(Louis Wu 16:02:07 UTC)

newguy2445 announced a bunch of new Reach fanart he created with recently-released assets – some great stuff in there! (Louis Wu 16:01:47 UTC)

Frankie stopped by to point out a note on IGN – looks like Halo Legends will be presented in San Francisco on February 10 (this coming Wednesday), at the AMC Metreon. Tickets are free, and the IGN article explains how you can try and grab one. As ElusiveEagle519 reinforced, the article even has an exclusive clip from Origins, Part 2.(Louis Wu 16:01:19 UTC)

So it turns out that Microsoft has already taken downloadable content for the original Xbox offline, in preparation for the termination of the service for that console in April. Why is this a bad thing? Because many of us haven’t grabbed recent copies of the Halo 2 downloadable maps – and the Xbox 360 has a nasty habit of corrupting original content. Without those maps (which you can no longer download), you can’t play in any of the current Matchmaking playlists. Ugh! Thanks to Avateur for the heads-up. (Bungie says they’re working on it.)(Louis Wu 16:00:12 UTC)

At the end of this month, Halo Waypoint will take over support of Halo Wars from Robot Entertainment, consolidating their hold on the Halo franchise. Thanks, Voho.(Louis Wu 15:56:38 UTC)

Don’t you just love it when weekends turn out like you planned ’em? Back for a little bit, to update you on a few of the things that have been going on since Friday. Let’s start with Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian, Part 4 – it went live, as expected, yesterday, and finishes the Frank O’Connor-penned short story Waypoint started 3 weeks ago. It’s a great piece of work, and if you’d rather see it in one unbroken run, it’ll be up on Halo Waypoint next week in its complete form. While you’re there, don’t forget all the other stuff they’ve got for you!(Louis Wu 15:55:51 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update was posted earlier this evening – it contains info to drool about (if you knew what urk was actually looking at, that is), some good news about Elites, some really cool news about shield effects, an update on the 1 vs 100 Halo event (looks like it’s going to be February 9 (Tuesday), not February 12, as originally posted), more fun icon submissions, and other goodies. Go read it! It is, of course, available in our Weekly Update Archive, should you choose to read it there. Update: the original date of February 12 for the Frank and Marty show is actually correct. The official announcement says that the show on the 9th is “followed immediately” by the Halo-themed show – but by “immediately”, they mean “3 days later”. Thanks, Voc and Cocop.(Louis Wu 02:25:06 UTC)