Halo 4

Halo 2 and Halo 5: Guardians have a lot in common. Both have split narrative campaigns. Halo 2’s boasted the return of Master Chief and gave fresh perspective by allowing players to play as the Arbiter, previously a Covenant enemy. Halo 5 has players playing as Master Chief and his Blue Team, while following the path of Spartan Locke and Fireteam Osiris who’ve been tasked to track him down. Both games feature strong player versus player arena multiplayer modes, which went on to shape the future of the series in the case of 2, and is certain to do so again in the case of 5.

A quick search on Halowaypoint.com shows me that I played 13,100 online matches of Halo 2 on the original Xbox. If we estimate that the average Halo 2 match lasts 10 minutes, that would equate to over 2100 hours played. While I don’t expect to be impressing anyone with these numbers, I hope that I’ve …

At long last, 343 Industries has revealed the next, new entry in the Halo franchise, Halo 5: Guardians. Last Friday, Bonnie Ross, the general manager at 343, took to xbox.com to unleash in blog post the first news of the next “Halo journey” coming to Xbox One. Ross took some time detailing what 343 is trying to achieve with a next-gen Halo entry. “‘Halo 5: Guardians’ is a bigger effort than ‘Halo 4.'” She continues to claim, “That applies to the content and scope of the game,” as well as the technology the game is being produced on and for. Ross clarifies that the game “runs at 60 frames per second, on dedicated servers, with the scope, features and scale we’ve been dreaming of for more than a decade.” November 2015 is the only date given for the anticipated release of the game.

Splinter Cell: Blacklist is the seventh installment in the Splinter Cell franchise, picking up six months after the events of Conviction with series-long black ops group Third Echelon disbanded and-in its place-the aptly named Fourth Echelon, a special ops and counter-terrorism team. Run by long-time protagonist Sam Fisher, Fourth Echelon reports directly to the President …

[Click here to see part 1] *** #5. Aliens: Colonial Marines Developer: Gearbox Software / Nerve Software / TimeGate Studios Release Date: February 12, 2013 Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 The Alien movie franchise has inspired many video games over the years, but nothing to really write home about. In spite of that however, …

Last weeks release of Halo 4 by Microsoft’s 343 Industries was a huge deal for videogame fans. A trailer released for the game a few weeks earlier was an equally huge deal for completely different reasons. The two-minute and twenty-one second launch trailer, titled “Scanned,” made its debut on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on …