Team Kootra put together another fun vid that machinima.com released today – Team Fortress 2 meets Halo 3. Those poor Spartans…(Louis Wu 22:10:58 UTC)

Bungie’s updated the Reach project page, in anticipation of the video to be shown Saturday night on the Spike Video Game Awards. There’s not a lot of new material yet (most of what went live today was structure, not content), but the hype is building – go get some!(Louis Wu 22:10:16 UTC)

Major Silva wrote to point out a newspost on Grifball.com – apparently, Winter League signups for Grifball are really low, and they’re desperately looking for extra teams. If you’re interested in playing, go now – signups close soon! (Either today or tomorrow, depending on which newspost is right.)(Louis Wu 22:04:39 UTC)

This week’s Double EXP Weekend playlist is totally new – ‘Prepare to Drop’ is an “ODST Inspired” playlist, smgs and magnums for the most part (though the VIP escort games have BRs in ’em). Head over to Bungie.net for full details. Update: ZaneZavin pointed out that this list ran once before – the weekend ODST launched. My bad.(Louis Wu 19:48:16 UTC)

Active Anime once again has the first copy of a new interview with Hiroshi Yamazaki, the director of the Halo Legends episode ‘The Duel’. Give it a read for insight into the development of the project!(Louis Wu 19:41:46 UTC)

Three new montages for you, over at Bungie’s Comm Chatter:

• whitesoxrule created a Community Tags montage he calls ‘Epic’ – screenshots culled from Bungie’s enormous Community Files collection.
• Edge whipped up his first Halo 3 montage – 100% MLG. Sniper Heaven.
• Chase built his first Halo 3 montage as well, this one full of MLG footage too. Boom, boom, boom.

Anything that we want to know, from jut a beginner to a pro…(Louis Wu 18:11:58 UTC)

UNSC Trooper created a map of the Earth, broken out by 26th century politics (as discussed in various Halo sources) – swing by and see what he’s found!(Louis Wu 17:13:06 UTC)