Hawty McBloggy found ANOTHER pair of Master Chief cufflinks – it looks like they’re using the Mega Bloks limited edition guys. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 20:44:42 UTC)

Thanks to urk for reminding us that The Running Riot Podcast is recording live tonight – the guest is c u l8er from HaloTracks, and the festivities kick off at 9:30 Eastern. (If you show up at 9, you’ve got a shot at winning a ‘backstage’ pass.)(Louis Wu 17:29:01 UTC)

Bunch of videos for you today, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter:

• The Six Below Failtage purports to show off ‘fail clips’ – this means that he wasn’t successful in earning an overkill medal for his four kills, or a Killtac medal for 5. It really doesn’t mean ‘fail’. (I’m pretty sure the creator knew that.)
• Facility B5D is picking up where Halo 3 Mythbusters left off – ‘Halo Community Myths‘ looks at a few community myths (or just interesting questions) and investigating. Some are interesting, some are actually useful.
• The Lucky 20, Episode 5 is the final episode of this series – a collection of clips showing off some spectacularly lucky (and unlucky) moments in Halo 3 matchmaking. (The last clip is insane.)

Go watch! Update: Eep, one more. Halo MLG Top 10 Plays Episode 8 is also live – quality’s pretty low, but gameplay’s slick. (This has nothing to do with the normal MLG/ESPN Top 10.)(Louis Wu 17:26:58 UTC)

Rockslider’s been having fun finding huge battles in ODST – he’s written up a guide to playing with the Covenant forces you generally ignore at the start of ONI Alpha Site (you blow the bridge, and they’re on the far side). Give it a read if you like masses of enemies all at once!(Louis Wu 16:27:22 UTC)

Servers are holding up well to demand for the ODST cutscenes (we’ve served almost a terabyte of ’em since Sunday afternoon), so we’re turning on the next batch of HD versions in the Cutscene Library. NMPD HQ, Kikowani Station, and the start of the end of the game… go get ’em! (Some people are reporting playback issues on the HD versions – both WMP9 and QuickTime – and the common factor, so far, seems to be Vista. If you’re seeing stuttering framerates on playback of the HD versions, and you’re NOT using Vista, can you let us know? This assumes, of course, that you’re trying this out on a machine that can generally handle HD video.) (Louis Wu 12:18:52 UTC)

One One Seven has updated his Halo Networking Guide on Bungie.net (significantly) – and we’ve mirrored the changes here in the local copy. This is absolutely worth a read, if you’ve ever cursed at Halo lag or wondered whether the other team just cheated against you. Now with more networkety goodness! (Louis Wu 12:11:36 UTC)