Can you believe it’s been ten whole years since the first Halo debuted as a launch title with the original Xbox? Famously intended to be a high-profile FPS for the Mac, Microsoft instead purchased developer Bungie outright, making Halo the best reason to buy an Xbox. The rest, of course, is history. Kicking off a months-long celebration of Xbox’s flagship game, Microsoft today announced a slew of goodies for Halo fans that will begin this Friday. Read more »
For reasons both good and bad, here are the ten games that started the most conversations or got the most press in 2010. These were the video games that shaped the year, and won’t soon be forgotten (even though some of them might want to be). In (more or less) chronological order, here we go… [Side note: It feels odd not to include a game from either Kinect or PlayStation Move on this list — both motion controllers garnered probably more attention than anything else in gaming this year — but this is a list of games, not hardware. And neither device has yet to have that one, defining game Read more »
Halo: Reach is more than just Bungie’s magnum opus for the Halo series. It’s a love letter to the franchise’s multitude of fans, in the form of a “greatest hits” compilation of everything the series has done right. But that’s not to say that Reach is unwilling to try new things. This final installment of the series is so robust with features and so expertly executed, that it can’t help but be a thrilling, resounding success. Read more »
In case you haven’t heard, there’s this little indie game coming out next week called Halo: Reach. A full, extended version of the “Deliver Hope” live action short film that Microsoft commissioned for Halo: Reach has found its way online, and man is it a doozy. Full of killer battle scenes on a planet burning from invasion and war, there’s no other word to describe it but epic. It makes me yearn all the more for District 9 director Neil Blomkamp’s Halo movie-that-almost-was (even though Blomkamp had nothing to do with making this ad). Kudos to Machinima.com for the exclusive on this. In related news, today it was announced that there Read more »
A few weeks ago, I speculated about whether or not the “fighting a losing battle” nature of Halo: Reach would be an asset or an achilles’ heel. I have to admire the fact that Microsoft and Bungie aren’t shying away from the fatalistic aspects of the game — they’re attempting to use the heavy subject matter to their advantage. Read more »
