I’ve been invited to come speak as a guest at HaloFanForLife’s Spirit of Fire Podcast Simul-cast with a panel of fellow podcasters PGCR, Drunken Halo and their guests. The total participants for the night will be around seven or eight people discussing our observations on the state of Halo and why it’s fallen from grace, including possible solutions to bring…
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Gamers Solve HIV Mystery in 10 Days
Foldit is a 3D model game where players are restricted by rules of nature and challenged to virtually fold proteins. Although the rules are fairly simple, the strategy involved is not, but playing the game doesn’t require any scientific knowledge. This didn’t stop someone from coming up with the brilliant idea to put Foldit gamers to the test, and present…
It’s not Halo, but damn it’s cool! Supervolcanoes on Mars
Scientists are heated over whether or not anomalies on Mars’ surface are impact craters or supervolcanoes. Landmarks like Eden Patera, seen above in a heatmap image, contain features structurally similar to supervolcanoes that have been studied intimately on Earth and lack those common in impact craters. Watch the following video by Nature, learn about Mars’ dramatic past and decide for…
Halo 4 Armor & Emblem Generator
Twitter user @_Caspar_ has a website that generates a variety of images using your own Halo 4 Spartan, decked out in your armor and colors, and avatar. The Halo 4 Gamercards include stats with an image of your Spartan in your choice of default pose or the one you are currently using in Halo 4, and a variety of background…
Video Games Make You Smarter
In this video Tech Today expert Lizzie Bassett explains how research is showing that video games, specifically those that require problem solving and teamwork, increase intelligence and can even help you find a job. Of course, we already knew that. Video: Can video games make your kid smarter? That being said, you can lone-wolf it in Halo 4 and keep…
Halo 4 Dominion Playlist to Retire, DLC Necessary
As part of Halo Waypoint’s Bulletin this week, it was announced that amongst other changes some playlists will be consolidated and others will be removed completely, to be added to a rotational playlist. Next Monday sees the merging of Big Team Skirmish and Big Team Infinity Slayer into a new playlist with a familiar name: Big Team Battle. Also starting…
It’s not Halo, but damn it’s cool! Sun’s flips poles soon
Did you know that about every eleven years the sun’s magnetic poles switch places? The sun actually has a cycle of waxing and waning activity, and on it’s way to solar maximum, or the part of it’s cycle where sunspot activity is at it’s peak, the north and south magnetic poles flip. In 2001 it was predicted that the next…