Wow… so there’s a company who monitors web discussion of video games, and reports their results. (That’s odd.) And for the month of September, Halo: Reach was the most talked-about game online. (That’s not quite so odd.) If you want more details about Overtone’s GameVoice report, go read the press release.(Louis Wu 10:56:40 UTC)

melee stopped by with a screenshot that brings back pretty scary memories…(Louis Wu 10:52:54 UTC)

JIMBOTHY is back, with a new trailer remake – this time, he’s tackled Inception. Check his post for the video link – and once you’ve watched it, check out his comparison video. Amazing. (Push the button – thanks, nof.) (Louis Wu 10:52:20 UTC)

Some really funky stuff going on on the Bungie Webcam page these days – Hedgemony’s curious… are you?(Louis Wu 10:51:50 UTC)

Awesome – looks like our Fan Fiction submission page has finally been discovered by a pornsite spam bot. (Don’t worry; the only person who suffers is me.) Might have to add a Captcha soon… but in the meantime, there are five new (real) pieces online this week – go read ’em!(Louis Wu 10:49:39 UTC)

As they mentioned last week, the Halo Humpday Challenge took place against the crew of Naughty Dog (the team behind Uncharted 2, among other games). In a friendly meeting of developers, Bungie pulls out three straight victories. (Very close victories, but victories nonetheless.) Go read urk’s writeup.(Louis Wu 10:47:22 UTC)

These terrible titles doing anything for ya? Yeah, me neither.
Anyway, for those that don’t know, tomorrow is the beginning of the biggest XP event in Gears of War 2 history! From October 29th until November 1st, players will receive a Brumak sized 31x XP boost across mutliplayer games and Horde.
You’ll still get a bit of a boost playing today, as XP had been boosted to 4x since October 12th to celebrate Gears of War 2 becoming available for Games On Demand.

So if you can tear yourself away from one of the many, games released recently, hop into some Gears of War 2 and boost thy rank. Yours truly will be hosting a Weekend Hunt for the event, but more details on that tomorrow!

Burnie had a pretty good idea the other day, one so good I decided I had to give it a shot. Starting today, I’ll do my best to post the Halo: Reach Daily Challenges to our AchievementHunt twitter account. Remembering to do this every single day, seven days a week, is going to be a chore to say the least, but I’m gonna do my damndest. If you want to get daily reminders of what the challenges are, feel free to follow us.

Hey guys, just dropping off a bunch of new Force Unleashed 2 videos for you!

Up first is a neat little egg that allows you to get the “Guybrush Threepkiller” costume based on the character of Guybrush Threepwood from Monkey Island:

The next three videos are the hidden Holocrons in the first three levels. Level 1:

Level 2:

Level (2+1):

Here’s part two of our Fable 3 guide to getting all the necessary hidden keys to get the “I Am the Key Master” Achievement. Look for part three soonish.

Gus told me about his midnight release experience the other night… then I told Luke… then he showed you.

There’s only one treasure buried deep within this Humpday…

Here’s part two of our Fable 3 guide to getting all the necessary hidden keys to get the “I Am the Key Master” Achievement. Look for part three soonish.

Although they’re not listing the total number of units, Microsoft has revealed (via an earnings call today, courtesy of GamesBeat) that Reach generated $350 million in its first 16 days on the market – a decent guess is over 5 million units sold. That’s a lot of pizza and Xbox…(Louis Wu 22:26:13 UTC)

Our man in the field send us a list of some cool goings-on in the Halo CE community:

• Precipice has been updated – you can watch the whole video, or you can jump in about 40 seconds for the good stuff.
• If you have an ATI 5 or 6 series card, you can have anti-aliasing in your Halo. Wow.
• Halo Custom Edition is getting bots – awesome!
• If you’re a .NET programmer, BlamLib will let you interface with Halo’s Tag System. Definitely tech-heavy… but pretty amazing!
• Ifafudafi’s Plasma Pack 3 does really funky things with needles. Go look.
• Project Epsilon is Inferno’s single player map based on the character Agent Washington from Red vs Blue. It has voice acting and custom animations!
• Someone built a Target Locator in Halo CE. No visuals yet (it’s a pistol)… but ti’s just as deadly as the Reach version. Pretty snazzy!

Sort of incredible how much stuff is still happening – and how much of it is GOOD.(Louis Wu 21:48:50 UTC)

Geezer Gamers’ Sheriff_Bullock has an article called “Six reasons why a HALO hater loves REACH” – it’s bringin’ ’em back in, baby!(Louis Wu 21:17:52 UTC)

Mantis_7 let us know that he recorded a game of Snipers Pro on Atom, and added some commentary; if you’re an expert, you won’t really get anything from this, but if you find yourself more dead than alive, there are tips here that can shift that balance.(Louis Wu 21:17:33 UTC)

Bungie.net’s got a new fan-created map on display in a rascal cat’s second Map Spotlight feature – Castle Greenskull comes from ibmeubu, and is set up for large games. Go check out the pictures and video!(Louis Wu 21:17:02 UTC)