Bungie's Luke Timmins takes home the "gleeful engineer" award for being incessantly giddy about finding bugs.
Video Blips:
• Halo fans, don't despair at the loss of Halo 2 — check out this amazing new footage of Halo: Reach's multiplayer beta! I heartily agree with Bungie's Luke Smith and his preference for the sniper rifle — long-range head shots are delicious, indeed.
Continue after the break for a live-action (!) prequel to Alan Wake, the favorite car and track picks of Blur's development team, and a sky-high trailer for Ace Combat: Joint Assault.
• This teaser for Bright Falls, the prequel to Alan Wake, smacks heavily of a Coen Brothers influence. If the plaid shirts haven't tipped you off yet, this takes place in a heavily wooded region.
• Most of the cars showcased in this Blur footage range from "faster" to "even faster." That isn't much to choose from, with the exception of that Formula One van — even soccer moms need to burn rubber sometimes!
• Your wingmates in Ace Combat: Joint Assault sound genuinely enthusiastic to have you among their ranks. Megalithic bombers shelling a city to rubble after a "global financial crisis?" This is what happens when the recession gets out of hand, people.