It’s Friday, so it’s time for another installment of Tyrant’s Halo: Reach Mythic Difficulty Guide. This time, he tackles ONI Sword Base. The guide is quite hefty – 2 pages of text, 17 videos, all aimed at getting you successfully through a harrowing level in the most difficult circumstances. Check it out! (And remember, he’s keeping up on his YouTube-based Legendary Guide, as well – the next level, Nightfall, is live now. (Louis Wu 13:27:21 UTC)

This year’s Guilt O’ Lantern competition was the largest one ever – 150 entries. Took a long time to process them all so you could vote on them, and the voting itself took a while. But it slowed down to a trickle yesterday, so we turned off the spigot… and today, you’ll find that the winners have been announced. My biggest regret is that we have only three prize categories – there were a couple of dozen pumpkins I’d love to reward with goodies! Such is life, though… go see who DID win!(Louis Wu 12:57:42 UTC)

Looks like Stuntmutt pulled today’s One One Se7en from personal experience, again…(Louis Wu 12:48:53 UTC)

Geekscape’s Brian GIlmore sent word of the last Armor Ability still to be covered by the Teabag Prevention Team – Evade. Read up to see when to use it – and when NOT to use it. Roll your way to victory!(Louis Wu 12:48:05 UTC)

Queso Man let us know about Queso Man 8, the “conclusive epilogue to the Queso Man saga”. (The Queso Man vids are full of funny/silly moments in Halo 3 multiplay.) It was released just before Reach came out… but I guess he got distracted after that. Go watch!(Louis Wu 12:43:56 UTC)

Just a couple of new entries in the Fan Fiction section this week – go read ’em!(Louis Wu 12:42:32 UTC)

Forward Unto Dawn honcho Dani sent word of a new article that focuses on the Veto process of Halo: Reach’s matchmaking. Give it a read, and throw in your own thoughts about how games are picked in Reach!(Louis Wu 12:39:10 UTC)

RollinRollin13 sent word that a new project – The TBCS Project – is in its initial phases; he hopes to build a Bungie Community Snapshot from a huge collection of tiny pictures. If you’d like to contribute, keep an eye on the website; they’re not open for submissions yet, but will be soon. In the meantime, there’s information about what he’s trying to do, and what your submission will have to look like. Be a part of a true Septagon!(Louis Wu 12:37:04 UTC)

The Halo Humpday Challenge this week had Bungie facing off against Team Fire Fodder – members of Seattle’s Fire Department. By the numbers, it was a rout – but the writeup makes it clear that it was a pretty fun evening, even for the team with fewer points. Go read!(Louis Wu 12:25:11 UTC)

One of the many features of the Fable franchise is that you can “socialize” with your dog. Fable 3 has ramped that up to very uncomfortable levels – at least uncomfortable if you’re a decent human being, who doesn’t like to french kiss a border collie. Sadly, after watching her “socialize” with her in-game pet for about 30 straight minutes last night, I’ve learned that Griffon is not a decent human being. I just pray that PETA wasn’t staking out her Xbox Live account.

Fight fire with fire!

If you’re a female gamer who bought a Hardened or Prestige edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops, you may have noticed your free Avatar gear codes was for male only Avatars. To apologize for this selective case of being “sexism”, Activision has released female variants of the exclusive items, which are free for all female Avatars:

SR-71 Flight Suit: GYVF8-PF7RY-28D7V-VGWV8-CFGRM
Woods Outfit: R76BQ-CR3MF-G2TTF-9G36R-BQWJD

How about a nice break from the CoD onslaught to enjoy a little Fable 3? With this video, our silver / gold key odyssey comes that much closer to an end. Check back soon for part six, the final part.

Hey everyone,
We’ve got two more Black Ops videos for you. The first is for the achievement “Slingshot Kid”,

while the second walks you through grabbing the “Tough Economy” achievement.

You may remember a while ago, we posted a poll Ubisoft were running as to whether the G.R.A.W. leaderboards should be reset. Well the good news is, they have been as of 8am GMT (Midnight PST). There have been three achievements within the game that have been nearly impossible to gain since the game’s release back in 2006, as they all involved reaching the top of three different leaderboards.
With the leaderboards reset, getting to the top still isn’t going to be easy and anyone who still has the game will need to be quick to unlock them early.

The achievements in question are:
World Champion (Multiplayer) – Climb to the top of the universal leaderboard – 40G
Solo champion (Multiplayer) – Climb to the top of the solo leaderboard – 32G
Team champion (Multiplayer) – Climb to the top of the team leaderboard – 32G

Hey there everyone,
To make room for the impending holiday merch, we’re having to “clean our closets” as it were. I hate to do this, as each product we make is like a baby to me, but sometimes you can’t love each of your kids equally. To that effect, we’re having to discontinue a few of our shirts. Click here to see all of the crazy cheap deals (and I mean like less than 10 bucks a shirt cheap) we’ve got goin on in the store. And remember, once these babies are gone, they’re gone for good.

If you looked at the Prize List this time around for our Guilt O’ Lantern contest, you’d have seen that the First Place winner will receive (among other things) a “Halloween-themed Mister Chief painting or drawing”. A Waypoint Tweet today pointed to what that might look like… (thanks, bs angel)(Louis Wu 21:55:49 UTC)

Is it Thursday again? Hey – if you’re not playing Reach (or Black Ops), maybe you wanna jump into a Halo 3 Double EXP Weekend playlist? This week, it’s Fiesta FFA (unranked, unfortunately). Get your random on! Thanks, FyreWulff.(Louis Wu 21:09:10 UTC)

pete_the_duck tells fun stories. With pictures, and videos, and everything. Get yourself a glass of warm milk, and go read!(Louis Wu 21:06:57 UTC)