Archive for December, 2007

Halo Screenshot of the Week - 12.24.07

In the spirit of Christmas, here’s proof it truly is better to give than receive. That familiar blue glow in my left hand is a plasma grenade, armed and sticky. Unfortunately for that particular blue Spartan, my aim was true that day.
Here’s the play-by-play in case you were wondering (I know you weren’t, but humor […]

Halo Screenshot of the Week - 12.17.07

Here I am winging a fastball into a fray near the rocket spawn on Isolation. Note the excellent form on my 95-mph heater. A lefty with gas like that has a shot at the Bigs. Except that everyone in the Halo universe throws with their left hand. Plus, in a future full of cybernetically-enhanced super-soldiers, […]

First Halo 3 DLC Available Today

Halo 3’s first downloadable content is available today, in the form of the Heroic Map Pack. Included are three multiplayer maps based on various locales sprinkled throughout the Halo 3 campaign. Unfortunately, the maps will cost you 800 Microsoft points, which is something like $10 in real people money. If you’re a penny-pincher that doesn’t […]

Destitute and Divorced for the Holidays

That title may seem a little extreme, but there’s a good chance you wouldn’t think so if you talked to my wife after I went on an unsanctioned, game-related spending spree.
It seems a lot can change in the span of a week or two. Shortly after lamenting all the top-tier games I was missing in […]