Halo: Reach will rock you to the core two weeks today with the release of the multiplayer beta? Can’t wait until then for some juicy Bungie-flavoured goodness?
Good thing that there’s always tomorrow.
An embargo of multilayer previews from events in the US and London will lift at 4pm BST tomorrow afternoon, so expect a batch of impressions and interviews to go live by then.

Read up. :)

Someone posted these in the new Halo Reach screenshot news but I thought they were worth posting here as well:

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The assassination is brutal.

An amazing in-depth analysis look at Invasion from the GTTV Footage, man the beta is looking great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvDta8m5y58

Come May the 4th (or May the 3rd for our North American readers) everyone with a copy of ODST will automatically have a ticket into the Halo: Reach beta, but recently we were invited for an advanced look at the upcoming online trial at Microsoft's Australian headquarters. We came away from our session convinced that while the beta is going to be a generous taste test with a healthy number of maps and modes on offer, the new Headhunter game type is worth the price of admission alone.

Some journalists played the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta throughout out the course of last week and this week, in case you haven’t realized it yet.
The consensus seems to be you should all have your ODST disc in your 360 disc tray and wait all night if you have to for it once it goes live on May 3.
Get rounded up below.
We didn’t miss out on the fun neither, of course. We sent Adam Hartley to give us his impressions of the taster. Go get it here.
Everyone else is below.

Eurogamer
1UP
Joystiq
play.tm
TheSixthAxis
IGN
Videogamer
Ars
GameFocus
Digital Spy

I don't mean I've been fretting about jetpacks because of their awful carbon footprint, or that I've been panicking over whether or not they'll spoil the nation's youth with idleness. No, I've been worrying about something far more serious: I've been worrying about how they're going to fit into Halo.

I've been worrying that they'll bust multiplayer right open, turning matches into nasty little bee storms filled with buzzing annoyances, that they'll break the game's tight convergence of weapons, environments and tactics, and that, really, they're only there as a gimmick to tempt people back from Modern Warfare 2.

I shouldn't have worried. A chance to play Reach's forthcoming multiplayer beta reveals that jetpacks in Halo are brilliant. They're not something to fear, they're something to arrange a national holiday around. They're seamlessly integrated (a squeeze of the left bumper is all it takes to shove you into the air, and you can control your pitch rather beautifully with little taps), the recharge time seems fair, and you don't even have to fret about being swamped by them: plenty of the people I play against choose to ignore jetpacks entirely in favour of different perks.

No expense is too great for the men and women of Bungie: if they need a person to blow down a cardboard tube to simulate a realistic jetpack sound, they're just going to go out and hire somebody.
Most importantly, though, jetpacks really fit in. Spartans have always been a bit like superheroes, and so the sight of one dropping down out of the clouds to land on a nearby ledge only heightens existing similarities between the Man of Steel and the Men of MJOLNIR.

Has Halo ODST got CoOp ?

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And destroyed by none existent texture filtering.