Stephen Loftus tossed us 10 new signs for his Halo Signs collection last night – this is the first batch that I can place ALL of them. Pretty amazing; he’s now up to four pages’ worth! Go check out the end of the Civilian (page 2) and Miscellaneous (pages 2-3) sections for the newest stuff. (Louis Wu 10:59:45 UTC)

Hedgemony is working to make his comics more accessible to late readers; while it’s quite cool that you can read his latest offerings on our forum, as he finishes them, he’s also making entire storylines available in one place – he’s just set up an Imgur album for Halo: Special Projects Division (the last comic before his current offering). Pages are coming soon for Guard Duty and his newest project, SPD: Flash!(Louis Wu 10:58:44 UTC)

FyreWulff pointed out that it’s Extreme Shopping Sale Week on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and the Halo Wars DLC offerings (Historical Battle Map Pack and Strategic Options Add-on Pack) are currently 50% off (for the first time!). If you’ve been holding back because 800 points per pack was too much, you can grab ’em for 400 right now. (Louis Wu 10:58:17 UTC)

cardo 8 atl found us another Defiant review – el33tonline mostly liked the new maps (though they found Highlands a bit boring when objectives weren’t involved). Go read! (Louis Wu 10:57:50 UTC)

Community
–Achivement HORSE #16
–Fails of the Weak! Volume 27
–Duke Nukem Forever Delayed…. Again
–Weekend Hunt

AH Videos
-Historian part 2 in Homefront
–That Thing Has Legs video guide in Dragon Age II
–3 Star Walkthrough Levels 1-1 to 1-8 in Angry Birds Rio
–Grand Theft Dressage, High Roller, and Easy Come, Easy Go video guides in Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
–UH OH! and It ain’t like dusting crops boy video guide in LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
–Achievemnt Hunter Behind the Scenes: Michael’s Side of HORSE
–Rage Quit: QWOP

Community Videos
–In A Hurry, Sacrificial Lambs, and You Are On Fire video guide in Swarm from BrownMan
–Dragon Age Ester Egg in Mass Effect 2 from Fusanoshin
–Old School video guide in Bulletstorm from BioHRay
–Master of Disaster video guide in Bulletstorm from HGN_Kevin
–Poppin’ & Lockin’ video guide in Halo: Reach from CaesarsDeath

Xbox 360 Achievements
-Added achievements for Operation Flashpoint: Red River
-Added achievements for The Fancy Pants Adventures
-Added Ludwig Pack DLC achievements for The UnderGarden
-Added The Arrival DLC achievements for Mass Effect 2
-Added secret achievements for Crysis 2

Windows Phone 7 Achievements
-Added secret achievements for Burn it All!

PlayStation 3 Trophies
-Added trophies for Bulletstorm
-Added trophies for PixelJunk Shooter 2
-Added trophies for Crysis 2

Web Game Achievements
-Added achievements for Adventures in Ponyville

The Orlando airport is a land mine for bad parents. Who knew that stupid mouse would be waiting for us at the gate?

The Red vs Blue Season 9 Trailer is just about to go up for registered site members. Not a member? You can register (for free) in about thirty seconds by clicking the Sign Up button at the top of the page. Otherwise, the trailer will be available to the public tomorrow. I hope you enjoy it.

If you are member, the trailer is here. Hope you enjoy it!

Geoff has been out so many weeks that I think at this point I’m actually legally responsible for his half of the room. Weird. Enjoy AHWU!

Hello! As you may have heard on the amazingly popular Drunk Tank podcast or from our convenient and well-written staff blog, Rooster Teeth kicks off its eighth anniversary celebration next week with the release of the Red vs Blue Season 9 trailer. This time around, we’re kicking it old school by going back to our traditional release method (and by using phrases like “old school”) — which means that Sponsors will be able to watch the trailer at Noon tomorrow and registered members of the site will get it on Sunday. Then, it goes out to the public on Monday and the entire world dies of an awesome overdose. We suggest that you start building up an awesome tolerance now by wearing tuxedos in public and saving orphans from burning buildings.

Also, this week we will be having a Halo:Reach playdate on Tuesday, so bust out your gamertags and join us for some matches of Grifball and CTF on Blood Gulch. On Friday, we will be selling tickets for our first official gathering — Rooster Texas (RTX). There’s been some questions about age limits and other logistics, we’ll have a post about that later. Due to venue restrictions, anyone under 18 must also be accompanied by an adult.

Or if Texas is too far away you can see Geoff and Griffon RIGHT NOW in Florida at MegaCon. They’re lonely and waiting for your call.

And if you want to help out the people of Japan, be sure to check out 343’s awesome Ultimate Halo Experience to benefit quake victims. It’s an incredible package for a great cause.

Our beloved Marty O’Donnell chatted with IndustryGamers.com about the new creative environment he, and the rest of Bungie, find themselves in. He has some interesting points about the change in focus for the studio, and how adjustments are made in relation to shifts within the industry. Always a good brain to pick. Go and see!(GrimBrother One 03:01:25 UTC)

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The community has spoken and we have decided to go back to a weekly podcast with longer shows. Our little experiment died fatally and now we’re back in full force where we belong: in your ears. Going off of recent news, we are talking about the Defiant Maps that were released and the Random Frags we didn’t get to read last time. No special guests this week and Brent is missing in action for this show. Enjoy

Didn’t see this earlier today, but Halo Waypoint has news of a giveaway from Mega Bloks – they’re giving away 10 huge prize packs over the next few weeks. Go read about it – and see what you can get in on!(Louis Wu 22:08:40 UTC)

Domino Theory has been giving away tons of stuff through our website for over two years now… and his latest is pretty cool. Register on his standard giveaway page, and you’ve got a few chances to win: if your entry gets into the system before Wednesday morning, you are in the running for one of two separate Defiant Map Pack Codes, to be picked on Wednesday. But ALL entries (early ones, and later ones added until Friday morning) are ALSO eligible for an enhanced ‘pick your favorite thing’ giveaway; Domino’s greatly expanded the list of goodies he’s willing to ship you, and you get to pick what you want to win. All the details are on his standard Grab Bag Giveaway page – go look!(Louis Wu 21:02:31 UTC)

nomis78 stopped in with a nice baker’s dozen panoramas… everything from the small to the super-large is covered here! I love the Highlands shot, and that final one. Update: Eddy 071 added two of his own.(Louis Wu 20:01:31 UTC)

So, if you want to earn a medal that’s nearly unearnable – the ‘Unfrigginbelievable’ medal in Campaign – RC Master wants to help. He’s put together a tutorial guide that can show you what you need to do to get to a place that ALLOWS that many kills in Campaign. (There are other locations – the start of LNoS, for example – where enemies are unlimited… but not many where ammo will hold out, and none that will bring that many kills to you in so little time.) Amazing!(Louis Wu 19:57:53 UTC)

If you have access to Facebook, the Halo: Faith team has put up a new piece of concept art, this one showing off a Scarab. Gorgeous! Thanks, Dart3rocks.(Louis Wu 18:55:17 UTC)

Rockslider, in his typically thorough way, has put together a Bridge Descent Guide for the AotCR first bridge; it incorporates a boatload of information he’s compiled over the past year or so, and shows off techniques of a variety of tricksters, going back as far as 9 years. Take a look – it’s an impressive piece of work!(Louis Wu 18:52:38 UTC)

Feeling sad because you still don’t have a star next to your name in Matchmaking? Don’t fret – you’ve got another shot; Week 12 of Bungie’s All-Stars contest went live this morning. Snap a wallpaper-worthy screenshot (touchups are legal, apparently), and you could win that fabled nameplate. Check the B.net post for all the details!(Louis Wu 17:53:46 UTC)