Gamespot interviewed Lars Bakken about the three Mythic maps coming with Halo 3: ODST – he discusses where the maps came from, and what needs each one fills. This was released a week ago, but we didn’t hear about it until today, when Minime637 pointed it out.(Louis Wu 16:28:12 UTC)

Captain Spark sent along another 30 Halo 3 dialogue snippets for our Dialogue Databank – some really funny ones in this batch! He also recorded some civilians; I didn’t even know they HAD lines! Go listen.(Louis Wu 15:48:55 UTC)

IGN has a bunch of shakey-cammed footage filmed at Gamescom, showing off the Rally Point map – swing by to check it out. Thanks to 2900d4u for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 14:45:32 UTC)

Remember that truck that Halo Waypoint teased you about recently? The one with cool ODST stuff on the inside? Well, it’s headed out across the US, and if it’s coming to a location near you, you’ll be able to try out Firefight for yourself! Check out the full press release at Gamerscoreblog. Thanks to Mrs MadMax, who noticed the writeup at Major Nelson’s blog. (Interestingly enough, she knew about this before her husband – you know, the guy who works at Bungie.)(Louis Wu 14:41:11 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has gathered up another 10 random tweets about Master Chief – I still don’t get Twitter.(Louis Wu 11:30:30 UTC)

Morpheus announced a little contest on our forum – he’s looking for names for the next three multikills in the Halo universe (after Killpocalypse (9) and Killionaire (10)). Can you come up with cool names for 11, 12, and 13 kills? Winner gets a 1600 point card. Read his post for full rules. (Louis Wu 10:59:22 UTC)