Halo 3 gameplay footage on Marketplace next week? Halo 3 gameplay footage on Marketplace next week? Belgian blogger YLA G, of the Xbox Elite Team Belgium, reports that there will be a 7 minute long trailer for Halo 3 on the Xbox Live Marketplace on December 20th. The clip will show the emergence of the Brutes as “playable characters” in the game and it will contain 2.5 minutes of On December 20 a new Halo 3 video will be available on marketplace. It’s a 7 minute video that will be released next week. It highlights the emergence of the Brutes as playable characters in the game. It touches on their skills, origins, and how they are being created. It has about 2 ½ minutes of gameplay footage. We’re filing this under the rumors category because it’s the only source we have for this, which is pretty extraordinary for news this big. The fact that this hasn’t been announced by Bungie also calls for a little skepticism, Bungie made a big announcement for 1 minute of CGI earlier this month, yet they haven’t said anything about the first public showing of Halo 3 gameplay. However, if this is true then Halo fans are going to be in for a blast next Wednesday. The ‘…emergence of the Brutes as playable characters…’ bit is equally questionable. It wouldn’t be the first time that you play as an other character besides Master Chief in a Halo game but the last time that happened, with the Arbiter in Halo 2, it was kept a secret until the game was released. Maybe YLA G interpreted this wrong, maybe we did; time will tell. We’ll give you an update as soon as the trailer is live.