Master Chief’s Missing Pockets: A Disadvantage by Design?
For all of Master Chief’s advantages over his video game peers, he possesses a “limitation” that most of them don’t share. While gaming protagonists like Solid Snake carry an entire […]
Halo’s Move From Slipspace to Unreal: The Importance of Building on the Right Foundation
Halo’s move from utilizing their own propriety “Slipspace” technology to announcing they will build all future Halo content using the “Unreal” game engine is a pretty significant decision… the studio […]
Halo and Those Pesky Grunts: The Hidden Danger of the “Little Foxes”
My most stunning and disappointing defeats in Halo rarely occur at the hands of adversaries like the massive Hunters or the Elite soldiers piloting those lethal Covenant battle tanks. Even […]
The Original Halo Trilogy: Chapters that Don’t Always Make Sense Until the Story is Finished
Playing through the original Halo trilogy back when the games first launched vs. replaying them now is a VASTLY different experience. In my first playthrough, this seemingly basic “space marine […]
Microsoft’s Costly Xbox Console Commitment: Taking Up our Cross
Launching a new console is not easy or cheap, and in order to remain relevant in the console marketplace a continuing price has to be paid… a price that Microsoft […]
Xbox Live Party: When Our Paths Diverge
One of the best features Xbox added before their competitors did was the ability to join an Xbox Live “party” with your friends and bounce from one game to another […]
Breaking Down “The Duke”, Xbox’s Original Controller
As most new consoles typically do, the original Xbox console launched with an entirely new design for their controller that was quite unique. The “Duke”, as it was affectionately nicknamed, […]
Microsoft’s Minecraft Approach: Cross-Platform Cooperation
When Microsoft originally purchased Mojang, the studio responsible for Minecraft, fans were understandably worried that one of the largest franchises in the world would become an Xbox exclusive going forward. […]
Microsoft Game Pass: A “Day One” Sacrifice that Comes at a Cost
Microsoft made several expensive investments into the future with their Game Pass service, but giving away their newest games such as Halo Infinite and Starfield on their launch days as […]
Microsoft’s “Gaming From the Cloud”: Powerful Access Requiring a Persistent Connection
When Microsoft first announced their plan to deliver a “cloud gaming” experience that would allow gamers to stream entire games without downloading them to their hard drive first, I was […]
Finding God in Video Games 