first person shooters
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Halo’s First Episode Is Now Available for Free
Imagine being a fan of Halo, waiting what feels like decades to see the game brought to live-action, only for it to happen, it be released, and you can’t watch it. That surely happened to some of the faithful this week when Halo debuted on Paramount+, if they weren’t subscribers to the service. But the…
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Halo’s Premiere Included a Sneaky Nod to Mass Effect
The first episode of Halo is full of nods to the legendary Microsoft shooter franchise’s video game roots and its wider lore from generations of tie-in novels and comics. But it also managed to sneak in a lovely little nod to a fellow sci-fi gaming icon — one that itself has been aching for an…
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Halo’s First Reviews Feel Surprised to Be So Positive
The game that has sold over 82 million copies worldwide is now a Paramount+ series, meaning that legions of Halo fans (and potential legions of non-gamers who happen to dig sci-fi shows) are eagerly awaiting the first episode to drop. While episode one won’t stream until March 24, the review embargo has just lifted —…
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Destiny Should Be Sony’s Next Big Animated Series
The month of January had more than its fair share of newsworthy surprises, but the end of the month certainly threw some sizable curveballs our way. In the gaming space, everyone was shocked to learn that Bungie, the original developers of Halo and currently working on the Destiny franchise, had been bought by Sony for…