Author: halo@bungie.org

DHalo pointed out an interesting ‘ODST Red Carpet Trailer’ over at GameTrailers – it summarizes all promotional vids released for ODST so far. Nice work!(Louis Wu 14:53:58 UTC)

Schedonnardus found what might be the ugliest Halo-related hoodie… evar.(Louis Wu 14:53:17 UTC)

MS Xbox World went to a pre-launch party for Halo 3: ODST in Toronto last week, and took lots of pics. Gorgeous artwork accompanying the event… and creative food labeling. Check it out! (Xbox Canada is hosting an open-to-the-public event on Monday night – swing by Feed Your Console – or NextGen Player, thanks, Steve…

It’s not an official review – but it’s a great read. Over at NeoGAF, Hazimov wrote up some of what he liked, and didn’t like, about Halo 3: ODST. Good thinking there. (I, too, have had some trouble finding the last few audio logs – I’m dying to hear the end of the story.) (Louis…

NeoGAF’s DancingJesus noticed an already-fleshed Achievements Guide for ODST over at Xbox360Achievements – if you’re looking for advice on how to snag some of these, give it a read. (Do I need to tell you it’s chock-full of spoilers?)(Louis Wu 14:51:06 UTC)

All ODST art assets are now live again – we’ve replaced the embargoed pictures that we pulled last week. There are some potential spoilers in some of the campaign shots – nothing major, but if you’re staying TOTALLY pristine, skip these. (If you’re staying totally pristine, you should stop reading Halo news until you’ve played.)(Louis…

The review embargo on Halo 3: ODST lifted last night at midnight (eastern)… and they’ve been pouring in. I don’t think I can keep up this pace – but here’s the first few dozen that showed up in my Google alerts. (NNS means ‘no numeric score’, and these are in alphabetical order.) 1UP (A-) About.com…

Bryan Simon and GetSumGear are gonna be giving away MLG shirts and hats, next Saturday (the 26th). If you want to snag one, swing by this video for instructions.(Louis Wu 19:07:57 UTC)

Whoa – Treeskunk is seriously ramping up production on Operation: Isil. Time gap between episodes 12 and 13: 3 months. Time gap between episodes 13 and 14? 3 days. Go watch Episode 14 (“Double-Take”). There are lots of hosts. Thanks, shiruken.(Louis Wu 18:00:37 UTC)

Trendt ran across some Ensemble Studios concept art for a Halo project that was cancelled – maybe the MMO discussed last year? Really nice work.(Louis Wu 16:14:52 UTC)

G4TV has posted a review of the Halo 3: ODST soundtrack – the audio clips they’ve included are the same ones that Bungie posted a few days ago, but the opinions are new. Go see what they thought! (Spoiler-free.)(Louis Wu 14:37:47 UTC)

Sumthing Digital has previews of 17 tracks off the Halo 3: ODST soundtrack available for your listening pleasure. (Some have noted that the track titles themselves can be considered minor spoilers.) Thanks, Asian Inferno.(Louis Wu 14:05:08 UTC)

gunluva whipped up a pretty funny little sketch – go check it out.(Louis Wu 14:04:50 UTC)

Zeouterlimits pointed out the latest Listen Up podcast (09/18/2009) from the 1UP guys – lots of discussion about ODST. They liked it a lot, apparently. Timestamp of ODST discussion: 0:36:30 – 0:49:00.(Louis Wu 14:04:33 UTC)

kabu let us know that The HBOFF Feet First into Hell contest is closed – next up… judging!(Louis Wu 14:04:15 UTC)

ODST drops in 3 days, but the web content has already begun to explode. (Full reviews are still embargoed until midnight (eastern) tonight, so any that you see today will be from folks who weren’t at press events.) Stuff we’ve heard about in the last half-day or so:Kombo.com has a campaign hands-on – no spoilers,…

The Bungie Weekly Update is (not surprisingly) full of information about Halo 3: ODST – the launch date, the party on Monday, some AMAZING artwork, tales of debauchery and derring-do in the Bungie offices, and more. And, of course, a bunch of fun-making at the expense of some of the less well-spoken fans… go read.…

We forgot to mention it – but this week’s Double EXP Weekend playlist is Rocket Race – and it’s been live since yesterday. Thanks, urk!(Louis Wu 17:52:53 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has a bit on a really nice-looking groom’s cake that a really cool woman had made for her husband-to-be. She based it on the Special Edition Halo 3 Xbox 360. You KNOW he picked well…(Louis Wu 17:32:48 UTC)

Uman pointed us to a thread on Bungie.net’s forum in which he’s announced Agent 404, Episode 1, a 22 minute Halo 3 machinima filmed in HD and available for download (it’s 1.2 GB!) or stream (same file). It has both a French and an English soundtrack, though after watching the first 10 minutes of the…