Cracked has a collection of 6 Video Game Heroes Made Useless By Supporting Characters – and Halo’s Master Chief is #1 on the list. You may or may not agree with their logic, but it’s a fun read. Thanks, Sl’askia.(Louis Wu 17:25:39 UTC)

FoxmanFX stopped in with word of a new Noble Map Pack Achievement Guide at Halo Reach Daily – as well as the HBO edition of HRD’s daily Challenge guide. Check it!(Louis Wu 17:01:57 UTC)

MelkorTheGreat is back with the latest from DWT Productions – Halo: Reach E.O.A. Episode 4 is full of new glitches and tricks. Once again, some amazing stuff!(Louis Wu 17:01:32 UTC)

DeathMcGunz has been making a machinima series for about a month now – there are 8 episodes so far. Kevin and Roger are a pair of players in Reach that Forge stuff. Understated humor – I liked ’em! (Louis Wu 17:00:54 UTC)

Morpheus brought us a bunch of G4 links that reference Reach in various ways – always nice to have summaries! (Louis Wu 17:00:28 UTC)

Lars Bakken had a message about the Firefight Versus playlist, for folks who might not grok the whole idea – thanks to MoltenSlowa for bringing it over to our forum.(Louis Wu 16:59:29 UTC)

Bungie’s written up a Noble Map Pack FAQ explaining some of the nuances of how the DLC works, in terms of when you’ll see the maps in Matchmaking, what happens if you’re trying to play with people that don’t have them, and so on. Give it a read! (Louis Wu 16:58:31 UTC)

Immersion is underway. We just released episode 2, “Online Gaming Distractions” with special guests Mega 64! We had a blast making this and we hope all of you enjoy it. Keep tuning in this week for more videos featuring Mega 64. For Science!

A little light learning.

I’ve got two videos for you today, both from a “secret” game called ilomilo. The first is for “The Musician”.

And the second is for “You’re In The Way”. Keep playing and look back soon for more guides.

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So this podcast is about a week overdue, but better late than never we suppose. We have the whole gang here this week along with JakFireDragon from Cyberline Films talking about making custom maps in Halo: Reach, or so we think. Discussions start out on topic and derail all over the place after we read our only submission (our fans don’t love us anymore?). There are still plenty of laughs as always. Enjoy

Giant Bomb has a half-hour video Quick Look at the Noble Map Pack – if you’ve got the time, go see what they thought! (Standard matchmaking, with voiceover commentary.)(Louis Wu 21:11:25 UTC)

Minime637 was touched by the beauty of the new maps – there are 6 new panoramas up in his DeviantART gallery, with previews in his forum post. Nice!(Louis Wu 19:26:44 UTC)

Kotaku has a few videos taken from outside the playing areas of the three new Noble maps – the skyboxes that Bungie has created for these playing spaces are AMAZING. Go watch. (Louis Wu 16:00:01 UTC)

Hedgemony has posted the next batch of Halo: Guard Duty pages – start here for pages 8-10, then follow his links for pages 11-16! (Louis Wu 15:59:34 UTC)

Adam Dorsey sent us word of the latest episode of Multiplayer Singleplayer – and his review of the Halo Reach Noble Map Pack. Not your typical review… (Louis Wu 15:58:45 UTC)

Sidd stopped by with word of a famous town from Fallout 3 – recreated in Reach. Go check out Megaton! (Louis Wu 15:56:58 UTC)

Have you ever wanted to be rewarded for buying content from the XBox Live Marketplace, or for renewing your Gold subscription? Well, the new XBox Live Rewards program is going to be doing exactly that! Rewardng you with Microsoft Points on almost anything you buy directly from XBox.com or your XBox 360 Dashboard.

The exact amount you’ll be rewarded will vary, depending on what you buy, with Family Pack Gold subscriptions getting the most. Unlike previous reward schemes, this one isn’t exclusive to Gold members, and XBox Free members will be reaping some of the benefits.

So what are you waiting for? Head over to the XBox Live Rewards page now, sign yourself up, and then… profit! And if you have any questions, there’s a handy FAQ here!

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Now that we’ve mopped up all of the collectibles in Assassin’s Creed, I can finally get back to the collectibles in Fable 3. Here’s parts two and three of our Gnome Invasion guide. Look for part four (the finale) later today.

Retsof-Noraa found a site that’s giving you a shot at a custom-skinned Reach Xbox with every order above $25 you place between now and December 31. Nice deal! Take a look at Ellusionist.(Louis Wu 15:56:03 UTC)