Year: 2009

Fragclone found pictures of the McFarlane Rookie prototype on the Spawn.com website. Cool beans! (It drops in October, a little later than the game.)(Louis Wu 18:20:42 UTC)

xoools pointed out that during IGN’s half-hour ODST special, Joe Staten confirmed that Heretic, one of the three new Mythic maps to be released with Halo 3: ODST this fall, is indeed a remake of Halo 2’s Midship. Due to some leaks in the past year, many people had already guessed that this was the…

mendicantbias00 found some info at Gamestop that suggests that the Limited Edition Halo 3: ODST package (the one with the special controller) will be available exclusively from them. If we find that this is not accurate, we’ll let you know!(Louis Wu 18:19:25 UTC)

Bryan Simon let us know that voting for his Mythic Song Challenge is now open for voting – go watch the explanation video, then swing by Bryan’s blog to watch the finalists and cast your vote!(Louis Wu 18:18:16 UTC)

Last week, we mentioned The Halo Gophers’ Forge contest – they’ve posted the results on their front page. Thanks, DE4TH DEAL3R.(Louis Wu 18:17:52 UTC)

UGO has posted a review of the Halo: Uprising Hardcover release – interesting timing!(Louis Wu 18:17:23 UTC)

With a smaller staff than most groups at E3, it’s difficult keeping up with the flood of ODST data, but we’ll try to do a roundup now. There are hands-on/previews from:CraveOnlineIGN (including demo footage)EurogamerJoystiqKotaku (more a clarification of Firefight)Gamespy (including video footage)Game StoogeIGN (Firefight playthrough)Gamespot’s Stage Demo (video)In addition, there are three more clips at…