36 pumpkins made it into this year’s Guilt O’ Lantern contest – and there are some spectacular entries! Swing by and cast your vote for your five favorite pumpkins – let’s see if we can’t give some prizes away!(Louis Wu 14:30:20 UTC)

Pwn or Die got their hands on a new product announcement from Lipton – it’s Halo 3: ODST Diet Tea, and the description should make you smile. The price, too. (Louis Wu 12:02:30 UTC)

There’s a tiny taste of an upcoming panoramic video using ODST images on YouTube – thanks, Decadence Night.(Louis Wu 21:11:48 UTC)

The Top 10 Halo 3 Screenshots feature this week on I <3 Halo 3 Screenshots focuses on ‘Creatures of the Night’ – some truly spooky shots in there! Go look.(Louis Wu 21:01:30 UTC)

nico (the guy behind Red vs Blue’s music, among other things) was cleaning out some old projects recently, and found a funny version of Blood Gulch Blues – its existence owes itself partially to a new (for nico, at the time) guitar, a ’73 Fender Telecaster Deluxe, and partially to alcohol – the end result is actually pretty cool to listen to. Classic Telecaster sound, interesting improv… degenerating into chaos, of a sort. (He pulls it back together at the end.) He calls it ‘Brood Gurch‘ (‘Brood’, in this case, rhymes with ‘Blood’) – it’s 2.1 mb in MP3 format. Go listen! If you like this, swing by the Trocadero website; they’ve just released a new album (Ghosts That Linger), and several of the songs on it are intriguing varations on this theme. (Louis Wu 19:58:22 UTC)

Mad Cow went all out for his college football team (the Boise State Broncos) – he repainted his Spartan Armor orange. Check out the photo!(Louis Wu 19:53:15 UTC)

AssaultGodzilla is back with another Halo Music Video – this one is set to This is Halloween (originally from The Nightmare Before Christmas, here performed by Marilyn Manson), and (as usual) is nicely timed. Go watch! (Louis Wu 19:52:04 UTC)

Remember – you’ve got a bit less than 6 hours, as of the time of this writing, to get your pumpkin pics into our Guilt O’ Lantern contest… carve like the wind!(Louis Wu 22:24:20 UTC)

After Marty publicly challenged the world to find the Siege of Madrigal, he posted an extended challenge in the Marty Army fanclub – first person to upload a movie showing the egg would win a signed copy of the Halo 3: ODST OST. PyroSporker16 and ZPO4O were the first to the finish line… and for those of you who don’t want to sit through a 28 minute movie, we’ve put together a page showing the egg itself (on a couple of different difficulties). Congrats!(Louis Wu 13:42:50 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update went live a bit early this week – you can go read it on Bungie.net, or in our Weekly Update Archive. What’s in it? Oh… good stuff. Discussion of the recent Reach playtest, lots and lots of in-game Halloween shots, lots and lots and LOTS of real-life Halloween shots. Good stuff. Go read.(Louis Wu 23:12:33 UTC)