Year: 2009

Yesterday, Willy noticed that ‘ODST’ was in the top 6 Trending Topics on Twitter. This morning… it’s at #2. Me? I think that just means too many Bungie fans use Twitter…(Louis Wu 12:27:19 UTC)

A quick word of warning, courtesy of Wired Magazine – do NOT forget to save your Campaign progress before jumping into Firefight. (Easy to do, if you’re responding to an invite…) Thanks, Dani. (Louis Wu 12:26:57 UTC)

If you missed the official Launch Party in Seattle last night, swing by bungietweets – there are lots of pics.(Louis Wu 12:26:37 UTC)

Botolf posted a bunch of screenshots over at NeoGAF of an ODST-inspired Halo Custom Edition multiplayer map. (The last one is rather poignant.) The map’s not available yet, so for now it’s just the screenshots – but go look! (It’s not his map, he’s just posting the pics.)(Louis Wu 12:26:11 UTC)

Not to be sidetracked by the release of Halo 3: ODST, Azrael stopped in yesterday with word of a new chapter of Minutemen: The Crucible – swing by his site to read it.(Louis Wu 12:25:54 UTC)

2good4u2 whipped up a batch of ODST-flavored panoramas – three of them are from Campaign modes (no spoilers), and two are from the new Mythic maps (well, outside of them). Amazing. (Heretic’s skybox is awe-inspiring.)(Louis Wu 12:25:22 UTC)

IGN posted a short (one minute long) montage of Brute fighting in Firefight. (It’s called a ‘Brute Chieftan Montage’ – but most of the action is Brute Leaders or even below.) No spoilers. Thanks, Minime637. While you’re over there, you can take a look at ‘Halo: The Many Looks of the Covenant’, a guide to…

There’s been a little confusion about how many levels there are in Firefight – are there 99 rounds? More? Less? Bungie’s JonnyOThan stopped in to our forum last night with the opinion that there actually is no limit – but that at some point (likely well beyond where YOU’LL ever get to) the game will…