Game Of The Year. The title has weight. It is the first day of a new year and with the passing of 2010 it is time to anoint a single, solitary champion of the year in gaming. It takes a lot to stand out amongst what have been a banner year for good games. There are [...]
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Microsoft: There will be a Halo Movie
There will be a movie, Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor said at a Halo panel at the Future of Television East conference last week. “We want to have Halo on any screen we have access to,” said O’Connor. After the panel, a high level network executive came up up to O’Connor and said, “We want to do something [...]
Dreamworks Wants to Make ‘Halo’ Movie. Success?
Sources have told New York Magazine’s online Vulture column that the success of Halo: Reach has sparked DreamWorks’ interest in making a Halo movie. Microsoft’s involvement is obviously the key factor in this case, with Bungie now out of the IP-holding picture. Which means Steven Spielberg’s potential involvement. After seeing the latest Indiana Jones movie, you [...]
Halo: Reach Sales Numbers Sticky-Grenade your Mind
Last Thursday, Microsoft announced sales numbers for Halo: Reach. The Xbox 360 flagship title grossed an impressive $200 million in sales in the U.S. and Europe in the first 24 hours of its release. During the tail-end of a worldwide economic downturn. Comparatively, Halo 3 racked up $170 million in its first 24 hours in the U.S. [...]
Let the Halo Franchise Grow
This is going to be simple – We want more Halo. Some people, PC FPS players especially, despise the Halo franchise. Say what you will about the games themselves, no one can doubt that the games have been a phenomenal success for Bungie and Microsoft and have been instrumental in launching the Xbox 360 to [...]
Bungie Gives Gamers an Extra Day of Halo: Reach Beta
According to Joystiq, Halo: Reach‘s beta will be extended another 24 hours from tomorrow, now ending the 20th at an unspecificed time. ”Our official plans as of now are to turn off the Reach beta on Thursday, 5/20 at 10AM PDT”, Bungie’s Brian Jarrard told Joystiq yesterday. Originally scheduled to end May 19, Bungie has decided [...]
Halo “Believe,” Playstation “Mountain” Ads Make AdFreaks Top 25 List
AdFeak has today put out a list off “The 25 most epic ads that aren’t [Apple's] ’1984.’” The Halo 3 “Believe” campaign made it all the way to the eighth spot, while the significantly lesser known Playstation “Mountain” commercial made it to 17th. The PS2 commercial with a staggering 1,500 extras (most movies have less) just [...]
Reminder – Halo: Reach Beta Begins Tomorrow
Gamers’ look at Bungie’s final Halo project for the foreseeable future begins tomorrow. The multi-player beta for Halo: Reach will be available to download to those with a Halo 3: ODST game disc. The beta will run from May 3 to May 19, the beta program will allow players to try out a variety of [...]
Halo Waypoint programming revealed this week
Interested gamers can get an early look at the Halo Waypoint interface according to Joysqid. The Waypoint destinations programming will be revealed prior to the official launch of the destination on Thursday, Nov. 5. Halo Waypoint will be a new destination for all things “Halo” on Xbox LIVE around the world. It will be available [...]
Spielberg to do Halo movie, enjoys creating false hope
Steven Spielberg is in negotiations to develop a Halo movie, according to a report by movie news site IESB. In the report, writer Robert Sanchez claims to have learnt that one of the biggest producers in Hollywood is currently in “active negotiations” to develop the long-awaited film adaptation of the Halo franchise.
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