With Red vs Blue ending their season a few weeks ago and Webzeroes ending their series a while back, I found myself strangely missing videos to watch online. I had already seen all the Evening with Kevin Smith clips, so I decided to move on to something that I had heard a lot about, but never got a chance to watch, The Guild.

For those of you who don’t know, The Guild is a series about a guild of players in an MMORPG. It stars and is written by Felicia Day and was an influence for Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog, which Day also starred in.

I’ve never been part of any guild, I have never even played any MMOs, but I find the series to be so true to even people online, not even necessarily in a game, but even on Facebook and such.

The acting is great, the writing is superb, and it just makes you believe that these people actually exist and what happens to them could really happen. It is a great webshow to watch even if you aren’t into gaming at all since you will see characters like you who attempt to get into it, ut can’t actually get the hang of it.

If you have a chance, check out at watchtheguild.com.

The Lost epilogue was leaked online and I was fortunate enough to see it. In it, it answered some questions that a lot of people have been asking about since the very early seasons of Lost, including the Hurley Bird, Room 23, DHARMA food drops, why women can’t give birth on the island, the polar bears, the Hurley Bird, and probably most importantly, Walt.

It starts out at the DHARMA warehouse with two DHARMA workers loading palettes to get ready to go to the island. Ben shows up and shuts them down. In a moment that reminded me of the whining fans of the show during the final season, one of the DHARMA workers tells Ben that they demand answers, to which Ben lets them ask one question each. The first question is where the food is being sent, to which Ben says an island, the second question is why are there polar bears on a tropical island, to which Ben takes out a DVD and puts in the Hydra Station Initiation video.

The video has Pierre Chang explaining that the Hurley Bird is a genetically altered bird, the polar bears would be sent to the Orchid after they pass the advanced tests, but only if they aren’t pregnant because the amount of electromagnetic energy would be disastrous to the mother and child. It then goes to Room 23 and explain that it is a mind erasing room.

After the video is done, Ben leaves and goes to the Santa Rosa Mental Health Hospital, where Walt is playing Connect 4 by himself (though this could be like an earlier scene where Hurley was playing chess with the dead Mr. Eko). Ben apologizes for kidnapping him, but he needs to go with him to help his father. Walt reluctantly agrees and he goes with Ben out to a DHARMA van. After they get in, a voice from behind tells him it’s good to see him, the voice is Hurley. The epilogue ends with Hurley telling Walt that they have work to do and it’s time to go home.

This is an awesome piece of Lost that wouldn’t fit in the final season. It’s also ambiguous enough to be the beginning of something new and could essentially lead to a whole new series, if they wanted it, but it also gives closure to the characters we have grown to love over the years. This is a 10 for all fans of Lost, and if you were disappointed by the finale for the lack of answers, this definitely won’t disappoint.

The game is much like Halo 3 and Halo 2, at least that is how it feels once you select the control scheme that works best for you. Of course it isn’t going to play exactly like the previous ones, dual wielding and equipment are gone and in its place are armor abilities. In the beta there is Jetpacks), Sprint, Armor Lock, and Active Camo. Each of these you can only use for a limited amount of time though and must not be used in order for it to reload. It does add something fresh to the mix, which is nice.

So far the maps, Swordbase and Powerhouse for the most part feel like Halo 3 maps, which isn’t bad, but they don’t feel that fresh either. I know you are probably thinking, what happens when you try and leave a map with a jetpack? Simple, the game tells you to return to the battle field and if not then you simply die and respawn. I was a huge fan of Halo 2, maps like Lockout, Midship, and the rest were out there and very alien, when Halo 3 came along it shipped with mostly human maps and felt a lot like Call of Duty. I think that part of the joy that was Halo 2 was the alien maps and so far two of the four maps for Halo Reach beta I’ve played on feel very much like the Halo 3 and Call of Duty maps. Hopefully we won’t need to wait years in order to play on fan favorites like Midship, Coagulation, and Lockout.

Let’s get to the game types. Slayer is slayer, besides the new weapons and new abilities nothing much has changed. Three plot territories is back and in a big way, only this time you do not need to be in it to control the territory, simply capture it and then move to the next. Capture the flag is back as well, with two kinds. The first one is the classic CTF where one team on offense, one on defense. You can’t use your armor abilities, but it’s still pretty fun. The next variant is neutral. Instead of having one flag, you have several and need to capture as many as you can, but there’s a twist. The timer counts down and you need to wait for it to actually accept those flags, until then the opposite team can come along and steal the flags from you. A new game type so far released is Headhunter.

Headhunter was a scrapped game type from Halo 3 that made its debut in the Reach beta, basically you kill someone. When you do you get a skull. Take that skull to a moving area to collect those points. Kill someone who already has skulls and get those skulls as well. First one to 25 wins. Headhunter is a fun game, though it reminds me a lot of Griffball.

Now let’s talk about weapons. The beloved Battle Rifle that has been MIA since Halo 3 is still gone. In its place is the DRM. Also is gone are all the brute weapons, besides the gravity hammer. There are some cool new weapons however, a grenade launcher that locks on and a needle rifle that is effectively the Covenant equivalent of the DRM.

As of right now the game feels a lot like Halo 3, which is fine, but Halo 3 wasn’t Halo 2. I played a lot of Halo 2 and I think Halo 3 was missing something that made it all the more special. Hopefully more maps will come out, if not in the beta then in the final game that will make it feel more like Halo 2.