Halo 2 Map Pack - One Week Delay - 25.5.05

The multi-player map pack announced for Halo 2 back in March has been delayed by 7 days; the expansion will now come out on 5 July instead of 28 June.
The map pack is due to be available in two versions, a $19.99 retail box, and as a $11.99 download:

Does the delay of the retail pack mean a delay for the downloadable version of the Maptacular Pack?

Yep. The main reason for us holding the downloadable version for that extra week is so that we can match up all the iterations of autoupdate, matchmaking playlist changes and so on. The maps themselves are done, so we're now in the land of retail shipping, matchmaking tuning and so on. Sorry to keep dragging it out. The reason the retail pack slipped was that we found a problem during the final test pass (which is what the final test pass is for, so I suppose it worked).

Bungie Weekly What's Update

Four of the maps from the pack have already been released, with the remaining five to be released on 5 July; Bungie also plan to make all nine maps available as a free download by the late summer.

Bungie also said in an interview with a fan at E3 that there are no further maps planned, as they focus on their new, as-yet unnamed project.

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