It’s all whizz, bang and kaboom on the XBox Live Marketplace this week, as a number of Arcade shooters are 50% or better off! Full list below:

• Duke Nukem Manhattan Project – 400MSP
• Space Invaders: IG – 400MSP
• Geometry Wars Evolved – 400MSP
• Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter – 400MSP
• Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter – 400MSP
• Galaga Legions – 400MSP

Montage inside.

Get ready to start your engines and put the pedal to the metal.

No rhyme this time.

Show me.

Looks like someone forgot to pay the power bill…

Botolf wrote up a comprehensive review of the Halo: Reach Campaign – meticulously researched, chock-full of pretty pictures and well-written text, this is worth reading. Check it out. (The only thing it’s really missing is a navigation system; if you stop reading in the middle somewhere, finding your place, if you didn’t bookmark it, is non-trivial.) And with that, I’m going to let Grim handle anything else that comes along today. (Louis Wu 12:34:26 UTC)

urk’s had no trouble finding cool Halo content for Bungie’s Comm Chatter – here’s a roundup from yesterday:

• tranQ and Friends posted their second community montage.
• MLG spotlighted a few user-created maps.
• GodlyPerfection posted Lesson 44 of his Forge Tutorials – Aesthetic Noise.
• Bungie posted guidelines for Week 5 of their All Stars Contest series.
• xSoGx Grim built Jorge in Forge. No socks, though.

Go catch up! (Louis Wu 12:29:21 UTC)

The latest episode of this long-running series went live a couple of days ago – Arby meets up with Claire again, and Chief indulges his less mature side. (Louis Wu 12:28:30 UTC)

A couple of days ago, IESUproductions released a project he’s been working on for a LONG time – but the video had some issues. He’s fixed them, and re-released it; it’s worth your while to swing by YouTube and watch. A pretty nice story, told in the Halo 3 engine! (Louis Wu 12:27:56 UTC)

bs angel sent along a couple of great vids you might want to watch – the latest episode of Halo: Reach Mythbusters is up, from defendthehouse… and Singularity, first part of a planned four-part machinima, is up from EvilChickenLord. Mythbusters is, as always, chock-full of useful and fun bits of Reach trivia. Singularity is really well-filmed, and dialogue-free. (Action is at a minimum – this one has atmosphere, not explosions.) Go watch ’em both! (If you have trouble with Silverlight, as many of us do, the actual YouTube urls are here and here, respectively.) (Louis Wu 12:26:41 UTC)

We got a press release from G.A.N.G. (the Game Audio Network Guild) about the finalists for their upcoming 9th Annual G.A.N.G. Awards – but we also heard about them from Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net. (It’s great to see R.net alive!) As Narc noted, Reach is up for 4 awards this time around – Best Soundtrack, Best Interactive Score, Best Vocal – Choral, and Best Use of Multi-Channel Surround. Good luck, guys!(Louis Wu 12:25:26 UTC)

Mega Bloks is giving away 25 copies of their ODST Covenant Invasion set – for a chance to win, all you’ve got to do is take this survey. (I’m sure it puts you on their email list, too…) Update: looks like TCKaos found ANOTHER giveaway – a sweepstakes this time. Enter UPC codes from Mega Bloks Halo packages, win a chance at more Mega Bloks Halo stuff. Go read about it.(Louis Wu 12:24:43 UTC)

lostguru stumbled across a Halo-related episode of Nerf NOW! – a gaming-themed webcomic. Good stuff to remember!(Louis Wu 12:16:34 UTC)

Hey guys, I hope you’ve sweated off all the nachos and ribs you ate last night. Here’s a fresh new AHWU!

You gamer dads out there might be interested in this article on Kotaku. You just got a free pass for life… though hopefully you’re more responsible than Geoff.