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Jaywood2010 on 02 April 2014

Round 2: What is the Best Xbox One Game So Far? Tournament

Dead Rising 3  
Plantz vs Zombies: garden Warfare  
Killer Instinct  
Ryse: Son of Rome  
Assassin's Creed IV  
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood  
TitanFall  
Forza Motorsports 5  



       

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Goatseye on 02 April 2014

Ridley Scott and Microsoft Team for Halo Digital Feature

Project will be separate from Steven Spielberg’s Halo TV series.

by Scott Collura
April 2, 2014

We’ve been hearing rumors about a potential Halo movie for the past decade, with Alien and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott’s name being associated with the project as far back as 2004 and as recently as this past January. And now it looks like the rumors are becoming a reality… sort of.

According to Microsoft, a “digital feature project” based on the Halo game series is in fact in the works from 343 Industries, Xbox Entertainment Studios, and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions. The feature will be released later this year and will be executive produced by Scott and Scott Free TV President David Zucker. Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (Battlestar Galactica, Heroes) will direct the feature.

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Halo - Xbox One - Our Halo E3 Predictions and Wishes

Now, what is a “digital feature project” rather than a film, you might be wondering? It’s all a bit vague right now, but it seems likely that this is not something that will get a theatrical release. The Wrap is reporting that the project is expected to follow the same format as Machinima's Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, which obviously was delivered on the web.

The site adds that the story will follow a “surgically-enhanced super soldier who is not Master Chief” and that Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring may write the digital feature.

Additionally, Microsoft points out that this is “completely separate from the premium Halo television series executive produced by Steven Spielberg, which is still on track.” Back in January we’d heard that District 9’s Neill Blomkamp was directing the pilot for that project. Further confusing matters, Blomkamp had also worked on a now-defunct feature film version of Halo a few years back…

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Halo TV Series Announcement - Xbox One Reveal

It should also be noted that Mimica-Gezzan is a Spielberg collaborator, having served as first assistant director on many of his films. So there are a lot of big names in the mix here, but not many details yet.

We’ll have more for you on both Halo projects just as soon as we have it!

IGN



Goatseye on 02 April 2014

I can't wait to see a properly done Halo movie. Today I was thinking about re-watching Halo Legends. Later on I'll get it on.



gooch_destroyer on 02 April 2014
shikamaru317 said:
Phil Spencer is on twitter right now. I'm trying to get a response to some of my questions, no luck so far.


What did you ask him?



gooch_destroyer on 02 April 2014
shikamaru317 said:
gooch_destroyer said:
shikamaru317 said:
Phil Spencer is on twitter right now. I'm trying to get a response to some of my questions, no luck so far.

What did you ask him?

I asked him if there are any plans to revive Age of Empires (he recently said they are doing concept work on a new Age of game, but he didn't specify if it was Age of Empires or Age of Mythology) and I also suggested that they should make it for both PC and Xbox One.

And I asked if we could see an Xbox themed MOBA (there have been some rumors of one before). 


Hehehe yeah. You're not gonna get much out of him. 



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gooch_destroyer on 02 April 2014
shikamaru317 said:
gooch_destroyer said:

Hehehe yeah. You're not gonna get much out of him. 

Probably not, he only occasionally answers questions about potential future games and it's usually only to shoot down an idea, we were lucky to even learn that they're doing concept work for a new Age of game. He's done for the night now I think, last answer was about 15 minutes ago.


wait til E3 I guess.



MoHasanie on 03 April 2014
shikamaru317 said:
Any Big Bang Theory fans here? Tomorrow's episode will feature Sheldon trying to decide between PS4 and Xbox One. I'm not really a Big Bang Theory fan, but I might watch it since the South Park console war episode was pretty funny.

I love the Big Bang Theory! Looking forward to the episode. Lots of older episodes have them playing Halo a lot so they must be Xbox fans. 



    

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walsufnir on 03 April 2014
MoHasanie said:
shikamaru317 said:
Any Big Bang Theory fans here? Tomorrow's episode will feature Sheldon trying to decide between PS4 and Xbox One. I'm not really a Big Bang Theory fan, but I might watch it since the South Park console war episode was pretty funny.

I love the Big Bang Theory! Looking forward to the episode. Lots of older episodes have them playing Halo a lot so they must be Xbox fans. 


Well, they switched from Dell laptops to Mac stuff, so... I think MS put more money towards the series but Sony is trying hard to "win" US so I think we could be surprised.



MoHasanie on 03 April 2014
walsufnir said:
MoHasanie said:
shikamaru317 said:
Any Big Bang Theory fans here? Tomorrow's episode will feature Sheldon trying to decide between PS4 and Xbox One. I'm not really a Big Bang Theory fan, but I might watch it since the South Park console war episode was pretty funny.

I love the Big Bang Theory! Looking forward to the episode. Lots of older episodes have them playing Halo a lot so they must be Xbox fans. 


Well, they switched from Dell laptops to Mac stuff, so... I think MS put more money towards the series but Sony is trying hard to "win" US so I think we could be surprised.

Yeah you never know...product placement in TV shows is making both the TV networks and the companies advertising their products big money these days. But we all know Microsoft knows much more about marketing than Sony. 



    

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walsufnir on 03 April 2014
MoHasanie said:
walsufnir said:
MoHasanie said:
shikamaru317 said:
Any Big Bang Theory fans here? Tomorrow's episode will feature Sheldon trying to decide between PS4 and Xbox One. I'm not really a Big Bang Theory fan, but I might watch it since the South Park console war episode was pretty funny.

I love the Big Bang Theory! Looking forward to the episode. Lots of older episodes have them playing Halo a lot so they must be Xbox fans. 


Well, they switched from Dell laptops to Mac stuff, so... I think MS put more money towards the series but Sony is trying hard to "win" US so I think we could be surprised.

Yeah you never know...product placement in TV shows is making both the TV networks and the companies advertising their products big money these days. But we all know Microsoft knows much more about marketing than Sony. 


This does in no way apply to Europe, sadly.