If you are up for a couple of hours of awesome Halo fiction and story discussion and speculation, definitely check out the newest episode of Podtacular. Elusive Eagle and myself joined Duststorm and a couple of Podtacular community members for some epic Halo talk. And just to be clear “Lore Master” were his words, not mine. Go check it out!(GrimBrother One 15:24:13 UTC)

Kevin D. combined one of his favorite JRPG series, Golden Sun, with Halo Reach; the idea’s been realized before, but not with this pair of games. Check it out!(Louis Wu 13:51:50 UTC)

robofin117 pointed out that the latest Arby ‘n’ the Chief is live – TOSER action at its hottest!(Louis Wu 13:49:54 UTC)

Justin Bryce let us know that the Drunken Halo Podcast staff is hosting a Drunken Halo Game Night – kicking off tonight between 8 and 9pm Central Time. Swing by their site for details, and gamertags to send requests to.(Louis Wu 13:49:12 UTC)

Wow. Do you have a Halo: Reach disc that needs a box? MrBig made a case template you might be interested in. (We’ve hosted a local copy, because it’s enormous (3242×2146, 17.3 mb) – use ours if you want this.) (Louis Wu 20:05:03 UTC)

Treeskunk Productions has released a new introduction for Season 2 of their Outpost: Isil series – it’ll remind you who the characters are, now that the series is being filmed in Reach. Ep 1 is coming in a couple of weeks. (Louis Wu 19:22:19 UTC)

Achievement Hunter released Fails of the Weak Volume 53 (or you can watch it on YouTube) – funny fails and bad decisions. Go watch! Thanks to hezekiah for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 19:10:51 UTC)

Over at Halo Waypoint, Chris Puckett has some commentary on a game of Neutral Bomb on Zealot from the Final Boss/Warriors matchup at MLG Dallas back in April – some really amazing gameplay. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 19:00:21 UTC)

So as anyone who’s played Reach online recently knows, the Title Update went live a few days ago – and a small group of people were suddenly locked out of Matchmaking, inadvertently. (Folks who participated in a LIVE beta recently received a ‘preview disc’ with Halo: Reach on it – this version was supposed to be identical to the retail version, but turned out not to be.) It took a couple of days, but a fix has been settled upon – people with the preview disc received an email with a code for a Games on Demand version of Halo: Reach. (Thanks to Vlad356 for the screenshot.) If you’re in this boat, be sure to check for this code in the email account linked to your Gamertag.(Louis Wu 18:46:23 UTC)

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We were all dazzled by what we saw from the Halo 4 panel at Halo Fest, but we really haven’t had the chance to speculate here on the show what we might expect to see from the upcoming Halo Reclaimer Trilogy. So we decided to take the Halo Lore master from HBO, GrimBrother One and speculate on what we could possibly see in the new games. We are also joined by Elusive Eagle from Spirits of Fire. If you’re at all interested in discussions that break down what we saw in the Conception Art Trailer, you’ll want to take a listen. Funnyboy and Zant117 from the community also join us. Enjoy

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Over at Halo Waypoint, Data Drop Three has been… well, dropped. (Thanks, Gabotron ES) It’s in two parts – one is a letter, the other a report. Go read!(Louis Wu 19:56:46 UTC)

RedSpades sent word that Uni-BB.org is hosting another Friday Night Custom Games LIVE event – action will be broadcast on their Twitch.tv channel, and action will include games like Speed and Avalanche – swing by and sign up!(Louis Wu 17:07:26 UTC)

FyreWulff has a new Fire Team Zulu challenge for you, and if you complete it, you could earn a site award that will be visible when the site relaunches in November. Read about the challenge here, and the relaunch here. Then go wander through ONI Sword Base!(Louis Wu 13:31:44 UTC)

Computer and Video Games has an article about the Two Towers trick, which finally fell to Halo tricksters this past June. It’s a surprisingly in-depth article; I’d have thought this sort of activity wouldn’t earn attention like this from a general gaming mag… but I’d have been wrong. Give it a read – pretty cool stuff! (ElzarTheBam started up a discussion thread on our forum, if you’ve got comments.)(Louis Wu 13:30:52 UTC)

ncsuDuncan wrote up his experiences at last month’s Halo Fest in an article he’s just published at his website, Misriah Solutions. Great memories – go read it! (Louis Wu 13:30:12 UTC)