Amped eSports has interviews with a couple of MGL Pro gamers you don’t hear from very often – elamitewarrior, and MimiC. Check ’em out as the league gears up for the New York playoffs!(Louis Wu 12:54:09 UTC)

Luke McKay is on a Halo sketch kick – another image showed up in his RvB journal last night, and we’ve added it to his gallery here at HBO. Nice action!(Louis Wu 12:10:31 UTC)

Wow, very cool. We’ve received quite a bit of mail over the past 3 years from people who’ve lost their Halo PC CD Key (because they lost the case it was attached to) – and wanting to know if we knew how to extract that CD Key from their registry. Up until now, we’ve had to tell people that they were out of luck. TheGhost sent us a note last night, however, pointing to a thread on the Halo 2 Vista forums, announcing a new tool he’d created – it can extract, and decrypt, that Key from your registry, allowing you to reinstall Halo PC from your CD without needing that small orange sticker you started with. Having had trouble finding the original case to MY Halo PC CD in the past, I applaud this tool!(Louis Wu 12:01:34 UTC)

GameBattles has concrete dates for the broadcast of MLG content on USA Networks starting in November – check it out, and mark the dates on your calendar!(Louis Wu 11:55:19 UTC)

Eric Nylund talked to Gamespot yesterday, as well (not wanting to make them feel left out after the IGN interview, I guess) – again, he does a pretty good job of filling the interview without actually saying much about unannounced material… but it’s an interesting read nonetheless. Looks like Maxmidget was first.(Louis Wu 11:44:03 UTC)

Today’s weekly update is full of useful answers, as asked by fans of our site in this thread. A very strong warning to modders and cheating in general. Nice tidbits on the latest news. Thanks to wortwortwort for the reminder.(Cybrfrk 20:44:52 UTC)

Wow. Rooster Teeth has released Episode 80 of Red vs Blue, ‘Baby Steps’, WAY early (by their normal timeframe) – sponsors can grab a copy right now. They seem to have fixed the Video Archive issue, as well… thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 20:03:37 UTC)

Wow, nice. GryphonOsiris found a pretty cool Halo Master Chief statue (well, it’s wall-mounted, so I’m not sure what you’d call it) on eBay – check it out! Do it quickly, though – only 4 hours left. (Current bid is just over $150, and reserve isn’t met yet.)(Louis Wu 18:13:20 UTC)

Paul Maestri points out that Halo Heads 17 is online – I’m starting to worry about the intelligence of that GoO spartan…(Louis Wu 18:01:38 UTC)

If you scroll down to the bottom of Trevor Chesler’s Mjolnir Armor page, you’ll find a few new pics of his helmet; he’s nearly finished with it. Lookin’ good!(Louis Wu 16:57:35 UTC)

Stuntmutt wrote today’s One One Se7en when it was unclear whether the Gears of War XBL Party Furor would apply to Halo 3 or not. (It seems that it won’t.) Still pretty funny, though.(Louis Wu 16:32:11 UTC)

Thanks to XerxdeeJ, who pointed out new content at Tied the Leader – there’s a Reader’s Poll asking if cheating is dropping at all on XBL (TTL would suggest it is), and a 22 Questions interview with Cayote, of the Cayote Cavegirls. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:20:14 UTC)

Captain Spark turned in another bunch of dialogue snippets – you can grab them off his website, or you can browse them in our Dialogue Databank. Some really nice Stacker quotes in there!(Louis Wu 16:12:24 UTC)

Odd. 13 new pieces available in the Fan Fiction section this Friday, October 13. Go read?(Louis Wu 15:50:46 UTC)

Mike ‘Feenix’ Oldman writes to let us know that Issue 45 of the UK’s Xbox World 360 Magazine will contain “an exclusive, one-off episode of the hilarious Halo machinima series, Red Vs. Blue” on its cover DVD. (This issue goes on sale October 18.) You won’t find this episode on the RvB website – it was made for the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival in August, and “shows what happens when Grif, Church and Co. plan their trip to Scotland to attend the festival”. Look for a copy at your favorite newsstand!(Louis Wu 14:10:36 UTC)

IGN has put up an interview with Eric Nylund, focusing on the upcoming Ghosts of Onyx novel. Eric does a great job of keeping secrets secret; he answers questions, but gives away almost nothing. Nevertheless, it’s a fun read, and should whet your appetite nicely! Looks like Leviathan was first.(Louis Wu 14:07:00 UTC)