Apparently, there are some waters off Longshore that allow floating… so what have Grifball fanatics done with this info? Why, created a Water Polo variant of their insanely popular game, of course. ell3ment and Gunnergrun have whipped up a map called “Ocean Arena”, and a gametype known as “Grifball of the Sea” – you can download the map and gametypes at Forge Hub, and watch a movie on YouTube. Go swimming! Thanks, NOKYARD.(Louis Wu 16:59:19 UTC)

If you read the October 9th Bungie Weekly Update, you saw a pretty cool Halo 3: ODST-themed BMW. Now you have a chance to actually grab that car, from Turn 10 – they’re giving away three customized cars to folks who have preordered, and that ODST Beemer is one of ’em. Read this page on their blog for full details. Hurry – you’ve only got until October 26th! Thanks again, urk.(Louis Wu 16:58:42 UTC)

Wanna watch some splattering? Stewie2552’s fifth montage to the activity is now live – thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 16:50:05 UTC)

Some fun stuff today in the comic roundup – we’ve got our standard Sunday Grin + Bear It (interesting uses for Engineers!), we’ve got a Halo mention in this morning’s AppleGeeks Light (thanks to many, first was Jim 028) – this explains a LOT of things – and we’ve got a very special treat for you. Stuntmutt’s back, just for the week, with some new ODST-themed One One Se7en strips! First up – Phony. Here’s hoping you like bad puns and bad art – because he’s here all week! Try the Kig-yar. Update: OMG, it’s TWO strips back from the dead! Halo Action Figure Theater has not one, but TWO updates – there’s a guest strip by OboeCrazy yesterday… and a brand-new regular-storyline strip from Elnea which recaps what happened the last time this strip was live (back in June) – and opens the door for a bigger story. Hmm… I wonder if we’ll get new strips from ZZoMBiE13, Paul Maestri, or Blackstar this week?(Louis Wu 13:47:28 UTC)

FassinTaak whipped up a Shepard Fairey-style poster of the Prophet of Regret – would make a nice wall hanging. Take a look!(Louis Wu 12:50:09 UTC)

Whoa – Brandon pointed out a pair of videos from Kre8-fx, showing off the start of an animatronic Elite costume being whipped up for Halloween – (the first shows off the servo controls for the jaws, while the second – much shorter – shows off the moving eyeballs, along with lots of other small but really cool tidbits). (Louis Wu 12:48:01 UTC)

Last night’s episode of The Simpsons – ‘Treehouse of Horror XX’ (available here on Hulu, sponsored by Halo 3: ODST) has a fun Halo reference – Jimbo is dressed as the Master Chief. Looks like bluerunner was first on our forum with the update!(Louis Wu 12:46:23 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a pretty funny little clip – looks like grenades do more than explode! (Louis Wu 12:45:50 UTC)