Be sure catch the Bungie Weekly Update, now up. I think’s it’s pretty obvious what skull they turned on. Also, some pretty awesome upcoming matchmaking details and some VERY cool behind the development scenes videos to boot. What are you waiting for?! (You can find it in our Weekly Update Archive, as well.)(GrimBrother One 23:23:12 UTC)

Mazz keeps us informed about yet MORE concept art at Isaac Hannaford’s blog – Spartan IIIs, and concept ships. (Tell me that bottom ship design wasn’t inspired by the Gravity Hammer…)(Louis Wu 21:04:24 UTC)

Achievement Hunter’s Fails of the Weak, Volume 20 has been posted – some great fails in there. (Plus, it’s fun to listen to Geoff totally lose it.) Thanks, Joe Duplessie.(Louis Wu 21:00:43 UTC)

Rockslider stopped in yesterday with another new vid – he’s come up with a technique to jump off the first AotCR bridge… using the Gold Elite. If your head is currently cocked to the side, with a slightly inquisitive look on your face… go visit his forum post and follow the links. (I remember being scared to DEATH of that guy. Using him to help me down? NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS.) When he posted this, there were no local versions on his Bad Cyborg page here – this has been rectified.(Louis Wu 20:54:08 UTC)

kornman00 is looking for help setting up a Halo-related Wiki – read his post for full details. If you’ve got the skills, this would be a cool project to be a part of! (Louis Wu 20:53:31 UTC)

The rumor has been out for a while now that the new adopters of the Halo franchise would be making a Halo: Combat Evolved remake. Well, today those rumors come to rest as 343 has confirmed the development of the remake of the game that kicked off the Xbox. There are still lots of little pieces that we don’t know about the game that could make or break it. According to Joystiq, the remake will not run off of the Reach engine but by something being put together by Saber Interactive. Rumors of the confirmed rumor are that the remake will essentially be a graphics makeover with HDTV and 3DTV support with online co-op.

The latest chapter of Tyrant’s Halo: Reach Mythic Difficulty Guide is now live – his writeup of The Package will show you, in a couple of pages and 12 video clips, some consistently effective techniques for beating this long, action-filled level. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 16:39:22 UTC)

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s interview with Frank O’Connor in which he said that there were no new games to announce for 2011, Joystiq has a story about a hi-def remake of Halo: Combat Evolved scheduled for release on November 15, 2011 – exactly 10 years after the original. Until we get more details, this one’s firmly in the ‘rumor’ category… but it’s certainly a juicy one! Thanks, ElzarTheBam.(Louis Wu 14:58:20 UTC)

HaLo2FrEeEk whipped up a new spherical panorama – this one covers Anchor 9. Follow the link to his site for a fully scrollable pano. Gorgeous! (I never look at the stuff outside; I’m always too busy shooting people – or getting shot. It’s so detailed!)(Louis Wu 14:47:01 UTC)

bobs99 pointed out a really funny flick put together by SpacialEntertainment – it chronicles some of the hilariously bad stuff the Reach AI can get up to while it’s fighting you. (To anyone who watches this video and says “see? Reach AI SUCKS!” – I say almost everything we see in that video I’ve seen from human players in matchmaking – all too often from myself.)(Louis Wu 14:41:10 UTC)

Stuff we missed on Bungie’s Comm Chatter yesterday, because we were too busy watching soaps and eating bon-bons:

• Antagonize put together a Reach montage using only MLG playlist footage – lots of mulitkills.
• Major League Gaming has announced the 2011 MLG Pro Circuit – and Reach is one of the three titles on the circuit. (The post on MLGPro.com announcing this seems to have been pulled… weird.)
• a rascal cat has the next Map Spotlight up – this one is Reactor 9, from Swayz. There’s an interview talking about the map, a download link, and a video flythrough.

Now excuse me, this box of bon-bons is empty…(Louis Wu 14:39:59 UTC)

Chris101b let us know about a new machinima he put together – it’s called ‘Decisions‘, and it does a pretty great job of telling a story with absolutely no dialogue. Really nicely filmed, definitely worth watching! (Louis Wu 14:31:08 UTC)

Three new pieces are available this week in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 14:29:31 UTC)

We’re moving right along in our Dead Space 2 logs. Check out today’s video which goes over chapters 9 & 10!

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And for one of the final videos of the night we have a little run through of the new maps added to Black Ops. Brownman joins in:

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