It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another Double XP weekend to go live! This week it’s Team Flag – 5v5 CTF variants. Woohoo! Go play.(Louis Wu 20:35:28 UTC)

Over at the Bungie Blog, urk pointed out ‘Top 10 Series Episode 12: Splatters’. I wasn’t impressed for the first few… but they get WAY better. Go watch!(Louis Wu 20:33:23 UTC)

Whoa. Oddworld noticed an announcement on Xbox.com for the Halo Wars Collector’s Edition, which is now available for preorder. Cool stuff in there – a graphic novel, a unique in-game vehicle, a patch, and some cards… but the REALLY big news is that the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack (consisting of Assembly, Orbital, and Sandbox) will be in the box as well. Release date is ‘worldwide this February’. Will this be the ONLY way to get the Mythic Map Pack? Unknown at this point. More when we know it!(Louis Wu 17:54:05 UTC)

PreGame Lobby Episode 8 is now online – 17 minutes long? Wow. Bunch of live-action stuff in this one. (I could have skipped most of the early stuff…) Thanks, Lord Osiris.(Louis Wu 17:49:11 UTC)

mirel noticed that last night’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien contained a bit of Halo footage – it was a short segment making fun of the whole ‘hologram’ thing news channels have been abusing recently. NBC.com has put the entire episode up – but the one-minute clip in question is not available separately, so we’ve put up downloadable versions (QuickTime, 8.8 mb, WMP9, 8.6 mb).(Louis Wu 17:44:40 UTC)