Halo Multiplayer Partners: Unequally Yoked
When you play enough social multiplayer matches online it is inevitable… members of the opposing team that JUST finished playing a ferocious match against me get split up, with a […]
Releasing Our Burdens: Walking Away to Pray
I have learned a critical truth over my years of playing (and sometimes getting stuck) in video games… many times I just need to put the controller down, walk away, […]
Capturing the Flag: Leaving the Past Behind
Halo multiplayer matches contain some of my greatest gaming triumphs as well as many of my most embarrassing failures… sure, I have captured my fair share of flags over the […]
Pray Without Ceasing: Even Spartans Have to Recharge Their Shields
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a fairly reckless Halo player… the knowledge that I’m playing as a Spartan soldier covered from head to toe in powerful Mjolnir […]
Halo Rings and False Prophets
One of the most compelling twists in the Halo series was the complete misunderstanding by the Covenant forces of the true intention of the Halo rings… the Covenant prophets were […]
Master Chief: The Importance of Our Helmet
One of the defining qualities about the Master Chief in the Halo game series is that he knows how to keep his helmet on… unlike a certain live-action TV show […]
Battling Hunters: Solutions Hidden in Plain Sight
I’ll never forget the first time I faced a Hunter in Halo… actually, make that TWO Hunters since they like to work in pairs. They were the most powerful enemies […]
Steam: Digital Ownership or a “License” to Play?
After years of building up a PC platform juggernaut that has become so dominant that physical PC games have basically ceased to exist, Steam is finally sharing the truth at […]
Empty Rocket Launchers and Deceitful Hearts
I have fallen for it more times than I care to admit… I have heard and followed the siren’s call of a powerful, game-changing weapon laying open and exposed in […]
John 117: A Traumatic Backstory and Scars That Save
The backstory of the Master Chief isn’t pretty… the ordinary boy known as John-117 endured massive and horrific trauma that both scarred him and transformed him into the super soldier […]
Finding God in Video Games 