At Microsoft’s X10 media event, the gaming giant will be announcing Bungie’s latest creation open for beta. Coming as soon as May 3rd, owners of the Halo: ODST game discs will be able to access the multi-player beta of Halo: Reach. This comes from a post on Major Nelson’s Blog.
The beta will give these gamers exclusive (as long as you have the discs) access to the former world of Reach. Consider this a prequel you may well do, just remember that it will most certainly be the crowning technological achievement of Bungie.
What’s new? Well Steve Scott, the lead effects artist of Bungie, was recently quoted on Bungie’s homepage as saying, ““If you remember the shield effects in Halo: CE, when you took damage, it would swell and eventually burst. We lost that functionality in Halo 3. In Reach, we’re bringing it back. You can see perturbation around the vertices now. It’s an extrusion of the render mesh.”
How do you get at it you ask? Starting March 3rd, players will find that the “extras” tab on ODST’s main menu is now visible and click-able. So fire on up that disc of yours and get to work testing them for them, mmmK?
So let me come clean with everyone for just a moment. I, Snorkle256, have begun to play role playing games. No, not talking about Harvest Moon, Pokemon or any other video game out there. I am talking about good old fashioned pen and paper games.
What too me so long? I am 25, how did I never play these before? Ok, so I think the main pushers of p&p rpgs are the players themselves. After all, to get a game going you need a least one person running it and at least one person playing it. Of course, it works better when there are more people playing.
I’d been fiddling around with the Splinter Cell Code Of Conviction ARG lately and have been rewarded for participating. I really wish I had been able to enter all four codes in and get massive prizes. However I only entered 1 code with one email and 2 codes with another. So they sent me some e-mails with and Xbox code for 1 VR Alkali Skin and also VR Alkali Skin and SC3000 combo.
Here’s the deal. I don’t want them. I don’t ever see myself getting this game and needing these items. I want somebody to win them. So simply post a comment below with a REAL e-mail address in the field. (Don’t put them in the actual comment, just in the form where only I can see them.) This coming Friday (That’s Friday February the 12th) I’ll pick two people and send them the codes.
Good luck!
Another fine episode from a friend of mine. This time he does a quick review of an old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I do believe you can get this one on XBLA, or at least you could at one point in time.