ODST Drops a Lot of Cash Into Microsoft's Lap
To the surprise of no one, Halo 3: ODST has made Microsoft quite a bit of money over the two weeks since its release. More than $125 million in sales to be exact.
USA Today is reporting that roughly 2.5 million copies of the latest Halo game have made their way into the hands of fans eager to take on the latest adventure in the series. The game has received fairly good review scores, including here at
Hooked Gamers, and joins Halo Wars, which was released earlier this year, as another notch on Microsoft's belt.
As said earlier though, Halo 3: ODST selling like lemonade on a hot day is really not much of a surprise, however the USA Today article does give a little information on Bungie's next title Halo: Reach.
Another game, Halo: Reach is in production by Bungie and due next year. "It's a prequel to Halo 1," says Frank O'Connor, creative director for 343 Industries, a division of Microsoft that handles all things Halo.
A first-person shooter with an additional multiplayer mode, Halo: Reach "is a chronological prequel but it is not a prequel in the directions the Star Wars prequels were to the (original) movies," says O'Connor, a co-writer on 2007's Halo 3. says. "It will cover events in and around the planet Reach," where the invading Covenant first attacked humankind in the Halo story line.
While O'Connor's information may not exactly be shocking revelations for longtime fans of the Halo series, it is nice to get some solid details (however minuscule they may be) on the project, which is supposedly Bungie's last go round with the series.
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