Hawty McBloggy is holding the drawing for her Fundfax Fairraiser in just a couple of hours – sorry for the short notice! She’ll be picking the winners live, and you can get into the chatroom if you’re interested. Swing by and read the details!(Louis Wu 23:06:10 UTC)

Brandon Krichick pointed out an article at IO9 – ‘The Most Badass Female Space Pilots Of All Time‘ does a really good job of picking out some great female space pilots in science fiction. (You KNOW it’s a good list when it includes mentions of pilots from stories by Iain Banks, Vernor Vinge, and Alastair Reynolds.) About a third of the way down the list (sandwiched between Cowboy Bebop’s Faye and Revelation Space’s Ana Khouri) is Carol ‘Foe Hammer’ Rawley, from the first Halo. Hawt.(Louis Wu 17:36:38 UTC)

Halo 3 Mythbusters has released Episode 11 – you can watch it on their site (thanks, Minime637) or directly on YouTube. 7 minutes of glitches and little things you might never have known about! (Louis Wu 17:35:18 UTC)

ukilledkenny7 let us know about a video created for a gaming show called The Dashboard, airing this fall on GoodGameTV – he thought it would be appropriate to share it early, given recent events.(Louis Wu 17:34:41 UTC)

Bry pointed out on our forum yesterday that the ODST Limited Edition is now showing up for sale at some UK gamesellers – he even narrows down which ones to order from if you want the Johnson-in-Firefight bunus. Thanks to Van Helsing, who reminded me that this hadn’t been posted!(Louis Wu 17:33:19 UTC)

cbwilliams17 stopped in with word of ‘Trogdor – The Burninator‘ – a tribute to the classic Strongbad tune.(Louis Wu 20:26:34 UTC)

Nabsuh has announced High Charity, the first of a four-part machinima miniseries called ‘Emerald’ from AVCOM Productions. A mix of in-game footage and generated CG, this looks to have great effects, solid voice acting and some nice camera work. Check it out!(Louis Wu 17:01:14 UTC)

John_117 put together a short video which does a good job of explaining why Elites should be banned from matchmaking. (No, it’s not what you think. Really.)(Louis Wu 13:50:59 UTC)

A couple of days ago, cEe let us know about Power Hour, a video blog from Super Baldilox HD – Episode 3 (where he’s joined with Doctor D) reviews Halo 3. It’s a pretty solid look back at this influential game – I probably could have done without the teabag montage, and maybe the Christian Bale meltdown, but if you’re looking for a video blog that reviews games, you might wanna check this out!(Louis Wu 13:49:45 UTC)

Escapist Magazine put up a short review of the HaloScreenshots printing service (because of a blog post they found at Offworld, who in turn found it on another blog – I guess word is getting around) – if you haven’t made up your mind about these pics, give this a read.(Louis Wu 13:48:41 UTC)

Tonight’s Bungie Weekly Update is devoted, for the most part, to a recap of the Bungie vs the World shenanigans that took place on Tuesday – Bungie Day 2009. The studio gave out over 1000 sets of Recon armor to lucky players – which really isn’t that much, considering that over 7 million player-games ticked over in that 24 hour period, but is a BOATLOAD, considering that a few months ago, the total number of Recon-sporters in the WORLD was just over 500. Nice going, World! The writeup is a fun read, and also contains a recap of some other goodies that were made public during the week, and a summary of some of the funniest messages sent by unhappy fans. Go read! (You can, as always, read it here, in our Weekly Update Archive, if that makes you happier.)(Louis Wu 01:11:00 UTC)

DOH! I totally managed to miss the ‘Broken In’ article with Vic DeLeon posted on Thursday afternoon – it’s a great read with the Senior Environment Artist, a fantastic look back at a pretty long career and some inside information on a pretty funny incident during the creation of Halo 2. The man’s got a lot to say about the gaming industry, and about how awesome it is to work for Bungie. Go read it!(Louis Wu 00:30:24 UTC)