New Halo goodness....

From Comic-con San Diego, we have a look at the prequel 343 Industries and Microsoft are rolling out for the new Halo 4 game to be released 4^th quarter this year.  This is an excellent marketing strategy to hype up the new game.  These episodes will roll out on Machinima’s YouTube page beginning 10/5/12, and will give us a look at what events took place before where we pick up in Halo 4. Now back during E3 we saw a trailer featuring game play footage, the game is being totally redesigned from its predecessor Halo 3.  Master Chief is getting some aesthetic upgrades, as well as a new HUD (heads up display) and much more.   In addition are new enemies that the Spartan will face known as Prometheans.  So here’s the link to the full length trailer for Forward Unto Dawn featuring Anna Popplewell from the Chronicles of Narnia series.

Neat game!

So lately my wife and I have been on a online RPG kick.  We’ve found a game called “Lord of Ultima”.  I must say that this is the best little online strategy game I have ever played.  Premises of the game are to build a city, arm it with troops and hopefully join a decent group of people called an Alliance.  This game reminds me a lot of the old games like Civilization and Age of Empires.  There is also a Wiki database with full tutorials over at www.lordofultima.com/en/wiki  If you would like to test it out head over to http://lordofultima.com  it’s free to play and runs in your browser, so there’s no pesky downloads. When you sign up choose world 74 and look me up.  My players name is Vitan86.  

The Dark Knight Rises

In a few days the latest installment in the Christopher Nolan Batman franchise will be released, “The Dark Knight Rises”.  Reprising his role will be Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne.  Alongside are several new comers to the series.  Anne Hathaway will be portraying Selina Kyle aka Catwoman, Tom Hardy as Bane, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake.  In this installment, 8 years after the last movie, Batman has taken the blame for the death of Harvey Dent.  During this time a mysterious woman Selina Kyle appears in a string of burglaries.  And we have Bane, a terrorist, coming into play. This will be the epic conclusion to the trilogy; will Batman be able rise to thwart Bane and his plan to destroy Gotham City?  July 20^th we will find out.     

There’s been a lot of hype on this movie and if it will surpass “The Avengers”.  I personally don’t see this happening, but you never can tell these days.  Batman is one of my favorite comic book heroes of all time.  So you can bet I’ll be there this Friday night in line to watch.  So after I see the movie I’ll get right back on here and give you my in-depth impression and review!