According to the Bungie Blog, The Running Riot Podcast we mentioned yesterday has been moved up a day – it will now record on June 15 at 9:30 EST rather than June 16. This is to avoid potential problems with a planned Xbox LIVE service maintenance. (Louis Wu 17:29:05 UTC)

Stephen Loftus thought that given all the recent activity surrounding the Halo universe and fan attempts to pinpoint Halo-relevant celestial bodies, he’d release a small portion of his personal research document with his version of the Earth Survey Catalogue. To give you an idea of how this fits into the whole, the portion he’s excised from his personal Halo Bible is pages 26-60 for the Earth Survey Catalogue and pages 439, 440 and 455 for the reference notes. It’s downloadable as 2.2 mb PDF file. Enjoy!(Louis Wu 17:23:32 UTC)

puptastrophe at GrifballHUB.com let us know that a new version of Pup and Friends Double XP Highlights is now live at their website – go watch beatdowns and explosions in profusion. (Some of the moves are unbelievable…) (Louis Wu 17:23:12 UTC)

Jackson Davis let us know that Halo 3 Panoramas, a site he’s involved with has a whole passel of (whoa, surprise) Halo 3 panoramas – swing by to see ’em. (Louis Wu 17:22:53 UTC)

Neoseeker had a closed demo of Halo 3: ODST with Paul Bertone and Lars Bakken – swing by to read the details. (Louis Wu 17:22:38 UTC)

There weren’t that many comics we’d heard about – but at least one has more depth than just a funni, so here you go.

• Bloogyo sez Rat’s Nest has a new villain…
• The standard Wednesday ODS Steve went live – Episode 28 is called ‘Promotion’, but you’ll have to be up on the story to make sense of this.
• DeepCee also whipped up a special comic to remind people about Marissa’s plight (we mentioned it over the weekend). Much <3, DeepCee!

More on Friday!(Louis Wu 17:22:07 UTC)

We’re not at 100% yet, but the news is piling up – I need to get some of it out the door. Here’s a warning, ahead of time, that things might go wonky later today. Don’t panic. All will be well in the long run. (Louis Wu 17:21:43 UTC)

Gamereactor (a scandinavian gamer site) has a video interview with Curtis Creamer, filmed at E3, discussing Firefight and why it’s cool. (I was almost distracted from what Curtis was saying by the player behind him who was trying to kill a Hunter with normal shots from a plasma pistol…) Tons of info in here – much you’ve read in other interviews, some you might have missed. Worth a watch!(Louis Wu 16:54:56 UTC)

mrbilly93 checked a bunch of different retailers for you – Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Toys R Us (all in the US), and found that so far, only Amazon and Gamestop are offering the “Sgt Johnson in Firefight” bonus for preorders. (Gamestop is still the only place you can preorder the ODST Collector Pack with the ODST controller.) Things to keep in mind if you want goodies!(Louis Wu 16:45:45 UTC)

This is usually a Bungie.net specialty… but Tommy92L sent along a link to a video showing off some fun racing on Skybox-based Halo 3 racetracks – no links to the actual maps, but it’s pretty fun to see how varied these are!(Louis Wu 16:33:56 UTC)