TDSpiral whipped up another piece of ODST art – I like it a lot!(Louis Wu 12:46:56 UTC)

CNET posted a piece describing the Top 5 Best (and Worst) Game Preorder Trends – Halo 3: ODST got props for discounts, but lost points for playable characters that can ONLY be collected during the preorder period. Whee!(Louis Wu 12:46:14 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update this time around is chock-full of info that might make your Firefight games less frustrating – but there’s lots of other stuff too. An appeal for donations, some info about sports bigwigs getting special treatment, details about a group of former Bungie guys starting their own team, cool cars from Forza 3 (HBO readers will have already seen some of this)… and some other stuff. Definitely worth a read, either on Bungie.net or here, in our Weekly Update Archive. (Yes, ours validates.)(Louis Wu 23:18:46 UTC)

milesprower whipped up a five-minute montage showing off some of the highlights of their Vidmaster: Endure effort – check it out, and then go make your own memories!(Louis Wu 18:05:39 UTC)

Recently, we mentioned a screenshot contest from Black Water Ops – today, according to Bungie.net, they’ve announced the winners. Go see!(Louis Wu 17:49:32 UTC)

Tons of movies for you today, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter:

• Carratti’s gameplay and Astiun Media’s editing turned out ‘Tellier‘, a Halo 3 montage
• There’s a ‘Halo 3 Community Snipetage‘ from Katana1310 (not sure what community, or specifically where the clips came from)
• Adamack’s Halo 3 montage was edited by Insight Media
• |Rodzilla| got a sweet Banshee beatdown in this rendered clip
• Last week, we mentioned a guy who was customizing a PowerWheels ride for his kid – today, Bungie’s got the video.

Shouldn’t take you TOO long to watch all that…(Louis Wu 17:41:54 UTC)