Station Operational Status: Green

The Traveler

After a brief dark period due to solar flares from the adjacent star shutting down communication (you know, got to leave video gaming and enjoy outside some time this summer!), Station 1621 is returning to full operational status with communication to the home system being placed as the number one priority.  On our mission progress and communication reports, Station 1621 will continue looking at some of the biggest games coming out this Fall as well as delve into the past to explore some games forgotten in time but that should share a unique place in your gaming knowledge and repertoire.

I'm really excited about starting a new piece, along with our on-going Mass Effect tribute, that will take me back to one of my favorite games of all time.  More details to come soon.  I am very excited and hope you will be too!  Still working on a way to stream it on Twitch.  Hopefully that will come to fruition very soon.

The next game slated to be previewed, as given away by the picture above, is Bungie's newest franchise Destiny.  This game has been so hyped that much of the public knows and understands details about the game.  Therefore for this report of "Everything We Know," Station 1621 will provide more opinions about the game as opposed to just facts.  Possibly we can meld minds together and come to even greater conclusions about the massive blockbuster arriving on next-gen consoles this Fall.

Some updates the station would like to bring to your immediate attention:

343 announced that a new map pack will becoming to Halo 4 on August 20th.  Details can be seen here.  As you can probably tell, Halo is one of our favorite gaming franchises and we are always interested in Halo news.  The "Champions Bundle," as it is being called, will have 2 new maps including Pitfall and Vertigo, new armor, new skins and even a new game type.  We are excited that some new armor configurations are coming to game and the new game type looks promising as an alternative to Grifball.

The people over at Gearbox have been giving away free Shift codes for Borderlands 2 to accompany their newest DLC.  If you haven't jumped on the Borderlands bandwagon I highly suggest you go pick up the game which most likely can be bought at discount now.  The game is great fun and the developers have shown a consistent devotion to providing new content and FREE rewards.  Check it out.

There has been a ton of hoopla over Square Enix announcing that the Final Fantasy MMO or whatever you want to call it won't be coming to Xbox One due to Microsoft's policy to not allow cross platform connectivity.  I have a suspicion that Microsoft simply doesn't want to pay to implement this practice on future Xbox One games.  Its been prove that Microsoft is more developer friendly than Sony (I will debate you if you like) so I don't believe this stems from some notion that Microsoft doesn't want to share its games with other platforms.  That said, its possible there might be a reversal from the company in order soon, you never know.  Honestly I'm skeptical about this Final Fantasy multiplayer anyway.  I wish Square Enix would stick to what they know (single player campaign) except make them better than the last Final Fantasy.

And with that the station is signing off for now.  Check back soon and often.

See you starside,
-1621