The Halo universe was ripe with news at the Microsoft press conference from E3, detailing Halo ODST and announcing Halo: Reach at the same time. ODST is an expansion on the first Halo trilogy, only this time we're playing as ODST (Halo's version of Special Forces) Marines. While the whole compaign in ODST is co-op, an addition co-op mode called "Firefight" was announced, which is Halo's version of Gears of War 2's Horde Mode.

Continuing our streaming coverage of E3 2009 courtesy of G4 TV, we have the Electronic Arts press conference coming up at 5 PM EDT.

With the release of Halo Wars DLC "Strategic Options," we decided to give it a test drive in the name of Co-op. These three new modes are available through the skirmish menu, and add a certain flare to simple seek-and-destroy gameplay. Nick "BApenguin" and I tried out each one of these, and wanted to share that experience.

 Microsoft and Valve have announced and shown a trailer for Left 4 Dead 2.  The game is coming to the Xbox 360 and PC this fall, and it looks to be taking place in New Orleans.  

You may recall a story which we ran earlier this year, in which we predicted a Lego game based on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  Well, call us Nostradamus, because we are getting exactly that later this year, and it's coming to pretty much every system.

Thanks to G4 TV we'll be streaming the Microsoft E3 2009 Media Briefing LIVE at 1:25 PM EDT!

Since we first looked at Trine in it was easy to admire the game's gorgeous visuals, and even the awesome music.   Today we continue our admiration to the three player co-op title, set to launch on the PlayStation Network and PC later this year, once again drooling over some truly impressive eye candy. 

We've seen a bunch of media from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of the upcoming two player co-op Army of Two: The 40th Day, but we haven't seen any of the announced PSP version.  That changes today as EA has released a handful of screenshots for the pocket sized duo on Sony's portable.

Wondering where part two of Watchmen: The End Is Nigh is?  Wonder no more.  Part Two of the game is headed to retail shelves, of all places.  The Watchmen movie will be released on Blu-Ray and DVD in late July, and in at least one version, the movie will come packaged together with both parts of the game.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was recently delayed, which is a shame, because instead of getting a brand new trailer at E3 we would have only been a few weeks from the release date.  But that's exactly what we've got - and brand new shiny trailer for the upcoming Codemasters title. 

The Lord of the Rings video game license now belongs to Warner.  Their first game is a departure from the darker tone of the excellent movies, clearly aiming for a younger audience.  Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest is headed to the Wii this fall. 

We've already looked in depth at the new graphical style for Borderlands in screenshots.   But what we haven't seen yet is how the game looks in motion.