Crave Online's weekly gaming news returns in glorious high-definition! The goal of this feature is to update gamers on a weekly basis with the news that's important, none of the fluff. Every week there is a multitude of gaming news that hits the net. Most of it sucks ass. Who really reads gaming news to find out when the new Barbie game is getting downloadable content? I sure as hell don't, and I'm guessing you don't either. Therefore it's the job of this column to round up the best, most awesome news in the gaming industry, the stuff that makes us excited to be gamers, and condense it into one eatable, bite-size tablet of awesome. So open wide, this pill gets inserted straight up the back-end..

Halo 3: ODST Open World, Reach Might Use Project Natal

We all knew Halo 3: ODST was going to be a bit different than the rest of the Halo trilogy. But through an interview with the Seattle Times the development team behind ODST announced the game will incorporate an "open world" model popularized by Grand Theft Auto where the player will be able to free roam a massive, destroyed city (New Mombasa), piecing together clues to reveal the game's plot while triggering "flashbacks" that drop the player into the standard Halo FPS.

When asked about Halo: Reach and Project Natal becoming intertwined, Bungie Studio President Harold Ryan said, "I absolutely think Reach could be enabled with it," after the company was given an early preview of the motion-sensing device. From what we've seen Project Natal still needs some work, and we haven't seen anything about Reach since that initial teaser at E3, but if the game isn't hitting shelves till 2010, there is still plenty of time to work out the kinks of Natal so Reach actually becomes something special.

Metroid Prime Trilogy Box Art

Not too long ago we reported on Nintendo releasing Metroid Prime Trilogy for the Nintendo Wii. One package combining all three classic Metroid Prime titles with reworked controls for the first two games in the series in accordance to Wii motion control. Since that announcement Metroid Prime Trilogy has had us froathing at the mouth. And for a Wii title to do that is very impressive at this stage of the game. Well now we get a look at the classy looking package the game will ship in--if you buy the Collector's Edition of course. The Special Edition will come in a tin case, as well as contain an art book and slipcover. And while the slipcover is merely a piece of cardboard, this game (and to our knowledge the Collector's Edition as well) is priced at a measly $49.99, so it's a steal any way you cut it.