I just finished Halo: ODST. It’s a short experience (about 6 hours or so), but the atmosphere of it was really interesting. Nice music, too. I’d definitely recommend it at the Black Friday prices I’ve seen (30 bucks).
I like that it came with an “All the Halo multiplayer stuff” disc, too. I think that’ll probably just be the disc that sits in my Xbox if I’m not playing something else. You never know when you’ll want a little Halo Multiplayer 
I recently posted some photos of a cocktail arcade cabinet I built, and Ithought I’d go over the fabrication for those interested. Aseries of photos taken during the process is available here. I also took some photos of a Revenge of Doh cabinetfor research purposes, and those are available here. I’ve detailed software in a different post since that was asignificant undertaking in its own right.
I was inspired to make this cabinetafter watching a documentary called The King ofKong. It’s about a guy’s attempt at beating the highscore record in Donkey Kong. It made me try Donkey Kong onMAME, and snowballed into wanting a proper arcade cabinet to enjoyclassic games. I was also in need of small table for a cornerin my apartment, and an arcade cabinet was the perfect fit.
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UPDATE 2009.12.12 – I’ve detailed the fabrication here, and the software here.
It’s time I let everyone know what I’ve been working on over the last month. I bought a bunch of woodworking tools and have been very secretive about it, but the physical part of it is done now. So here it is:
That there is a cocktail arcade cabinet, which I built for 1. Retro-Gaming and 2. Breakfast-Eating. There’s been an empty corner in the apartment for about a year now, and I figured it was time to fill it. So there ya have it.
This is just The Unveiling, though. I’ve posted a short gallery here so y’all can take a look, but I’ve also taken a bunch of photos of the whole process, and I’ll go in depth on it all next week (hopefully).