The elite circle of hosts has grown in number this week, with the steadfast fellows at Battleground: Halo receiving this week's Halo update from Matt. Among other things, the update speaks of power shifts in Bungie's internal clans, and much about weapons (the two, mercifully, are not related.) An excerpt:

As [Rob] put it, We're relying way less on textures and much more on geometry. The number of polys and vertices for each weapon is pretty close to the poly/vertex counts for the characters.

Definitely worth the visit, as there's some far reaching information and comments in there.