Bungie has finally opened up the Reach API to programmers. I was actually hoping they would do this last week when I had a lot of free time. Anyway, I was browsing the website and noticed it was open, so I decided to throw something together real quick to see how accessible it was. I have never worked...

I have been playing a pretty good amount of Halo Reach lately. I have been doing pretty well, keeping well over  a 1.5 KDR for the most part. However even though I am doing well, I am not enjoying this anywhere near as much as Halo 3. Some quick reasons: Armor abilities: They ruin the flow of the game...

You wake up in a castle with a note you have written yourself. You cannot remember who or where you are, but your former self is not surprised. The note tells you that you have purposefully forgotten recent events, and that you now have one goal: find and kill a man named Alexander. You don’t...

True survival horror games are rare these days. Games like Dead Space and the most recent Resident Evil titles can be scary but tend to be just as focused on action as they are on atmosphere. To be truly scared you need to be vulnerable, and that’s exactly how the player in Amnesia: The Dark Descent...

A few years ago I made a post saying that I was curious about what Red 5 was working on. They have finally shown the game at this year’s PAX, and it looks pretty awesome. The game, titled Firefall, is “a team-based action shooter that thrusts hundreds of players together into a lush, dynamic...