GameInformer has been adding content to their site to match their cover story on Halo: Reach, and while screen shots and history lessons are cool, this video opens up a lot of info for fans.
Noble Team are indeed made up mostly of Spartan IIIs, who are a step down from the super solider Spartan IIs that Master Chief John 117 from the Halo Trilogy grew up from. The Spartan IIIs were cheaper to train and arm, and rely on team work without an onboard A.I. partner.
We also find see two new guns and learn that this sixth Halo game, the fourth on Xbox 360, will finally include the ability to RUN.
by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Powetcast on Dec.22, 2009
The aughts are over with 2009. Did we make the best of it? Did our predictions for the year turn out the way we hoped back in our inaugural Powetcast? Regardless, what were the best and worst entertainment items of the year? Find out in this special two-part season finale of the Powetcast!
The Legend of Halo: Quest For Recon is a short from the oddly entertaining Machinima blending the best game of all time with the second best game of all time. I’ll let you decide which I’m talking about. [Read the rest of this entry…]
Powet’s own Caleb Goessling and Sean Corse were featured on NBC 15 in Madison, WI last night as part of a story on the dangers of online gaming, and what you can expect to hear when you put on a headset.
You can find the entire clip here. What you don’t know about playing online… could kill you… or something.
Zac and Zero return for the first co-op Keep Playing review. They became friends playing Halo 2 five years ago, will Halo 3 ODST continue the tradition? Related Videos: Keep Playing Review: Halo Wars, Halo 3 Leftovers!
by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Games, Powetcast, TV on Oct.05, 2009
What you don’t know can’t hurt you, right? Is that why the Japanese game industry has been slipping lately? Even prominent Japanese creators are seeing the writing on the wall, saying that they must innovate, “or die”. As if to prove their point, we talk about a mess of games we’ve been playing that were not made in the land of the rising sun.
Now Halo is hardly a game that one would consider a lost classic, but given the franchise’s popularity, and since Halo ODST hit stores this past week, now is a good time to take a look at this classic, if for no other reason than to see how far the series has come in the 8 years since Halo sold many an Xbox so long ago. You play as the Master Chief, humanity’s last and best hope against a collective of alien races known as the Covenant. Aided by your fellow crew members and a holographic artificial intelligence known as Cortanta, you blast your way through many covenant soldiers in an attempt to discover the secrets of the artificial planet/space station known as Halo. [Read the rest of this entry…]
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