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)

Chris101b is back with his latest installment of Things You Wouldn’t Expect. It’s Episode 11 of his smirk-inducing series, and you should definitely go and give it a look! Chris also noticed that things seem to be affected by the Doppler effect in Reach. Go and see what he means!(GrimBrother One 20:30:10 UTC)

It’s Thursday, so it’s time for Bungie (well, A rascal cat) to highlight another fan-built map – this one is called ‘Terra Firma’, and was created by El Roboto. Go read why you should try it out.(Louis Wu 20:09:11 UTC)

Two new vids for you in Bungie’s Comm Chatter today – SingleHaloClips released their Halo: Reach Community Montage for October, and Halo Reach Fails Episode 4 dropped, showing off a bunch of funny plays. Go watch!(Louis Wu 20:06:40 UTC)

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.

We’ve got two more CoD: Black Ops videos for you today. The first shows how to get a slew of Achievements, namely Just Ask Me Nicely, Eaten by a Grue, Insert Coin, and Dead Ops Arcade.

And the second video shows how to get the Mr. Black Op Achievement. Hope they help!