Better late than never with this episode of Rewind with the mid-90’s arcade classic horror-shooter!

Shownotes after the Cut!
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The hotly anticipated RTS game, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty has been slated for release on July 27, 2010.

If you haven’t already pre-ordered the game, you can do so on Amazon and recieve a free beta key!
The Collector’s edition also includes, but is not limited to, the game’s soundtrack and a 2GB USB thumb drive that contains the original Starcraft and the expansion pack Brood War. This intrepid RTS fan will be getting the collectors’ edition. Pre-order either version via the links below!

Before Halo had players hosting 16-player LAN parties, the Bomberman games had players huddled on a couch trying to blow each other to kingdom come. Though the Bomberman series has been bought to just about every system in existence, Super Bomberman 2 is the one I love the most, if for no other reason than it was the first Bomberman game that I played. The single player game revolves around the title character being captured and having to fight his way to freedom and save the universe. You play through maze-like worlds battling enemies and gaining items. It’s fun, but the real package is the multiplayer mode. Up to 4 players can compete on one of 10 maps specifically designed for multiplayer. Like any good Bomberman game, you’ll have hours of fun trying to trap each other and catch each other in explosions.

If you’re a true gamer, you owe it to yourself to play at least one Bomberman game (the horrid Bomberman Zero notwithstanding). If not SBM2, then one of the other games in the series.

Stand up comedian and actress Aisha Tyler is a well known Halo fan. In fact, its been rumored for a while that she has a role in the Reach game, though thats unconfirmed.

What she definitely does have a role doing is introducing the Beta test to gamers via this 6 minutes primer video. While you’re waiting for the Reach Beta to download (its 1.2 GB), it wouldn’t be a bad idea to watch this recap of all the new games, areas, and weapons you’ll discover.

If you need more details, check Bungie’s FAQ.

The Halo Reach Beta is available for a limited time to those who have been given a download code from Microsoft or accessed from the Halo 3 ODST Main Menu. Don’t have ODST? Why Not?!?

April Showers bring digest posts!

Yes, it was another amazing and informative month at Powet. Sure, it was 4 more weeks of regular features like videos, Powet Alphabet, and Lost Classics, but we also had 2 great podcast sessions and some huge news! If you were too busy in April to visit us, or if you took a few days off for spring break you might have missed a lot! Get caught up now!

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Since the alphabet is the building block of our language, the Powet Alphabet is the building block of what makes us geeks.

Zombies – they’re a staple of film and games alike. Pioneered by the likes of George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” and its sequels, and followed by the slightly less-serious “Return of the Living Dead” movies and scores of others in the horror genre, zombies have been a tool of the entertainment industry for decades. Games began using them as early as the late 80’s, with Castlevania starting the trend of pixelizing the undead, and the idea taking off with subsequent games such as DOOM and the less-than-terrifying “Zombies Ate my Neighbors”. The idea of the dead coming back to life in order to devour the living has been used to great effect in all types of media, and tend to do rather well because of a good chunk of the populace having a morbid fascination with not only the undead, but more importantly – killing the undead. Capcom decided that, by the mid-1990’s with video games starting to become mainstreamed in the media, that it would try its hand at capitalizing on the concept.

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Still looking for something to do until Diablo III hits, and you’re done with Torchlight? Iron Lore Entertainment’s Titan Quest is here to bring you some mythological era looting and level grinding. After deciding the name and gender of your character, you arrive on the shores of the village of Helios, you find that the city is besieged by monsters. You are then recruited by the order of Prometheus to help bring order back to the world. Your quest takes you from Greece to Egypt and the Orient. The base game contains three acts, and the Immortal Throne expansion, which is included on this edition, contains an additional act, so the game takes around 40 hours to complete. You’ll encounter several types of mythological monsters, and you’ll even face bosses. Unlike Diablo, the environments aren’t randomly generated, but the custom crafted backdrops are visually pleasing. You can customize your character’s class and abilities, and you can join up to 5 other player on either local area network or online multiplayer. You can even create custom quests with the game’s editing tools. Like Age of Mythology and God of War, Titan Quest shows players shows how cool Greek mythology can be and how well it translates into video games. Not only that, it’s another fun way to get your dungeon-crawling fix until Diablo III hits.

Last Night Microsoft started the TV ad campaign for Halo: Reach with an ad for the Multiplayer Beta next week. Its true, the above commercial doesn’t even mention the full game coming this fall, just the Beta starting on May 3!
The ad shows the augmentation of Carter 259, the Spartan III leader of Noble Team in the Halo: Reach story.
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