Marcelo Vega, a Brazilian fan from Too Gamers, sent word that there’s bad news regarding Halo Anniversary in his country – it’s being delayed a couple of days. Release is now set for November 17. (Reasoning is unclear.) On the bright side (well, for Brazilians), the cost there is R$99 (about $56 US) – which might sound really expensive to folks IN the US, but is quite cheap by Brazilian standards.(Louis Wu 15:17:19 UTC)

GoozerNation has an article from a non-Halo fan who’s looking forward to Halo Anniversary – go read why!(Louis Wu 15:12:20 UTC)

Yesterday 343 released Sparkast 008 – 50 minutes of Halo goodness and silly shenanigans. Frank O’Connor, David Ellis, Dan Ayoub and Dennis Ries discuss the fun of promoting Halo, worldwide. Go listen! Thanks, JDQuackers.(Louis Wu 15:08:36 UTC)

Sean Mortensen has been in our news before – he composes lots of music. Recently, he created an entire soundtrack… for A Fistful of Arrows, the graphic novel put together by Leviathan. Levi sent us the tracks, along with Sean’s commentary on each, and a bonus piece of cover art for the album itself (he figured if Sean could put up a soundtrack, the least he could do is cover it). You’ll find all of this content on a page we put together to showcase this very nice collection of work. Go listen!(Louis Wu 19:42:53 UTC)

Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris has another installment of his LASO Challenge Guide – this one will show you all sorts of tricky techniques to make The Package go more smoothly with almost all Skulls on. Go watch!(Louis Wu 19:37:54 UTC)

Ty Coker stopped in with word of a new installment from SYNAW Season 2 – Episode 3 lets you know who the good guys are!(Louis Wu 19:35:20 UTC)

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another Fails of the Weak – Episoode 59 has some pretty funny moments! Go watch! hezekiah has both YouTube and AchievementHunter.com links for you in his forum post.(Louis Wu 19:31:35 UTC)

Tor is offering some cool Glasslands wallpaper (you can find it on Waypoint, as well) – thanks, Beckx.(Louis Wu 19:23:44 UTC)

There are a couple of videos from TeamVVVGames – an interview with Dennis Ries and David Ellis, and a gameplay video showing the entire first level played through (offscreen footage). Thanks, Hypertrooper.(Louis Wu 19:19:55 UTC)

GameInformer has a 45-minute interview with 343’s Frank O’Connor and Bonnie Ross – pretty nice background on the studio, and the direction they’re headed! Go watch. Thanks, excowboy83.(Louis Wu 19:16:18 UTC)

Chromium stopped in with word of Seekers, Episode 1 – a new machinima series that isn’t sure whether it’s drama or comedy. Or maybe it IS sure. Go watch.(Louis Wu 18:38:51 UTC)

According to In Entertainment (a UK website), the Australian EB Games will be offering a ‘Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Collector’s Pack‘ – for $88 (Australian – about $91 US), you get Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and an NKOK RC Warthog. I thought this was a pretty expensive package – until I realized that the game, by itself, is $68 in Australia. Thanks, ElzarTheBam.(Louis Wu 18:35:04 UTC)

pete_the_duck was watching X-Factor recently, and noticed that the Stereo Hogzz had some interesting backup dancers… (check his post for links.) (Louis Wu 18:23:58 UTC)

Lord Friendship put together screenshots of ALL the BOBs you can find on ONI Sword Base – that’s a lot of BOBs!(Louis Wu 18:20:01 UTC)

Futur Life stopped by to let us know about an interview that the Halo Destiny crew did with Dennis Ries a couple of weeks ago – lots of good info. Go listen!(Louis Wu 17:44:12 UTC)

AYellowSnowball and SillyGoose teamed up to create Stickaholics, a Halo Reach Dual Sticktage. 8 minutes of blue goo. I LOVED the ideas for moving grenades around. Go watch. Thanks, RVideo.(Louis Wu 16:50:37 UTC)

Dragonclaws has taken on the Halo franchise in a series of analyses designed to evaluate the role of women in the games and books. (We’ve already highlighted her work a few times in the past few months.) She’s back with a closeup look at Halo 2 – text version went online today (though the video version has been up since August). Go take a look – and see if you agree! Thanks, ElzarTheBam.(Louis Wu 16:45:08 UTC)

Yuri Walkiw stopped in to let us know he’s written up an article looking at the musical possibilities for Halo 4. He gives you a look at the man behind the music, Sotaro Tojima – and speculates on where he might be taking the Halo franchise, audio-wise. Nice read!(Louis Wu 15:52:03 UTC)

zukan informed us of a metal cover, done by Brandon Strader, of some Halo 3 songs at DwellingofDuels – I’m not even a metal fan, and I liked it! the URL it’s sitting at suggests that it might be pretty transient, so we’ve put up a local copy (7.4 mb). (Louis Wu 15:49:48 UTC)