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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Peter Jackson to Produce Halo movie! Halo character in DOA4! And other stuff ...

Peter Jackson to Produce Halo movie
Halo character in DOA4
X05 Xbox 360 game announcements of note
Other X05 stuff

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1. Peter Jackson to Produce Halo movie

People were wondering what the big announcement would be at this year's XO -- the Xbox brand experience -- and it turned out to be a doozy.

Triple-Academy Award winners Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will executive produce HALO, based on Microsoft’s phenomenally popular video game from Bungie Studios. Weta Digital Ltd. and Weta Workshop Ltd. will provide the creatures, miniatures and visual effects for the production. A Weta Brute? Weta Active Camouflage! The creative powers behind The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong pushing Halo? Omigosh ...

Alex Garland (28 Days Later screen writer and The Beach novelist) has written the original adaption for Halo, and a director will be announced shortly.

Peter Jackson is wrapping both the King Kong film and his hands-on video game from Ubisoft (which includes Weta assets from the film).

Previous XO reveals included pricing for the original Xbox (2001); Xbox Live and the acquisition of Rare (2002); a partnership with Epic Games and the new Xbox branding (2003); and major announcements from third party publishers and developers.

But this year's announcement? Awesome!

2. Halo character in DOA4

Yeah, so Bungie Studios confirmed the rumor -- A HALO character is going to be unlockable in Dead or Alive 4. Not only will this be an unlockable character, but pains have been taken (as per usual in the DOA world) to integrate the character in a "believable" way to the rest of the mythos. Bungie's saying, "You’ll be pleasantly surprised by the explanation for a Halo character in the DOA universe, even if it’s a bit tongue in cheek."

I was telling some buddies last night while we were muddling through Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects) that I think this character is likely to be AI construct Cortana (face it, Team Ninja likes the ladies). We'll see if I'm right.

If ever there was a reason for me to stop sucking at fighting games, this is it.

Head .. going to ... explode ...

3. X05 Xbox 360 game announcements of note

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) -- Announced FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup (Xbox 360 exclusive), and new franchise Superman, and confirmed Godfather, Burnout, and Battlefield.

Ubisoft Entertainment -- Announced Splinter Cell 4. (I fully expect Ubisoft to get bought by EA at some point.)

id Software Inc. -- Announced Castle Wolfenstein is on its way to the Xbox 360. (id recently staved off a Activision takeover bid.)

Microsoft Game Studios -- Announced Xbox Exclusives Crackdown (developed by Real Time Worlds, and created by the creator of the Grand Theft Auto franchise); Too Human (Silicon Knights); and Action RPG Mass Effect (BioWare Corp., the folks behind Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, and this new game that may be up there with Epic Games's Gears of War).

Eidos Interactive Ltd. -- Announced Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend for the Xbox 360.

4. Other X05 stuff

X05 is just getting started, so more updates to follow.

In the meanwhile, check out the X05 page over at TeamXbox.com. I expect a bunch of new screenshots, video, and a few game Website announcements this week.

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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Peter Jackson to Produce Halo movie! Halo character in DOA4! And other stuff ...

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