Late Night Consoling
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Fox and Universal Pick Up Halo Movie
[xbox]The latest word out of Hollywood is that both Fox and Universal are going in halfsies to pick up the Halo movie. The two movie studios will split the costs with Fox handling domestic distribution and Universal handling it on the international scale. Also worth noting is that they were able to buy it for half of what Microsoft was asking. The new agreed price is $5 million.
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EA Reveals Their Arena Football Game
Electronic Arts snatched up the exclusive rights to the Arena Football League back in January but nothing has been heard of the title, not even at E3. However, today, EA was finally ready to talk about its latest football sim. A trailer was released and at first glance, it doesn't appear to be all-sim or all-arcade but a fine mix of the two. EA isn't talking release platforms yet, but it will ship in February 2006 at the start of the AFL season.
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Konami Developing Suikoden IV Spin-off
[ps2]Perhaps taking a page out of Square-Enix's playbook, Konami is working on a spin-off game to Suikoden IV. Called Rapsodia, it'll be a strategy RPG where you play as Kiril, a young boy in search of the "rune cannon." It takes place in the same world as Suikoden IV and past characters will make reapperances.
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Misc. Q&As/Features
[ps2] [xbox] [psp]Bit-tech has a tech-filled interview with ATI about the Xbox 360. Game Informer speaks with the eccentric Hideo Kojima. IGN has an interview regarding the PSP version of Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition and with a Square-Enix producer about the future of Final Fantasy.
Misc. Media/Previews
PS2
GamerFeed previews Kingdom Hearts II. The Magic Box has new screens of FF7: Dirge of Cerberus. GamesAreFun has the first glimpse of Rapsodia. 1UP shares new details on Soul Calibur III.
Xbox
1UP has a new trailer of Project Gotham Racing 3 (X360). IGN has plenty of new videos of Conker: Live and Reloaded.
GameCube
We go gaa-gaa for GameCube at FileShack with trailers for Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Kirby, Battalion Wars, and Geist. IGN previews WWE Day of Reckoning 2.
Portable
IGN has a new video for Gunstar Super Heroes (GBA). GameSpot goes hands-on with Bomberman DS and posts media for Yoshi Topsy-Turvy (GBA).
Multi
Game Informer hosts a trailer of NCAA Football 06 (PS2, Xbox). GameSpot previews Destroy All Humans! (PS2, Xbox). IGN goes hands-on with NHL 06 (PS2, Xbox, GCN) and has media for Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (PS2, Xbox) and 187 Ride or Die (PS2, Xbox).
Super Mario Bros 3 for the NES. "This awesome game had it all: 8 unique worlds, tons of stages, lots of powerups including the Tanooki suit and Kuribo's shoe, secret areas, card minigames, airships...everything." (submitted by omnova).
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nivorous
replyBut will Microsoft still get 15% if it ever surpasses 5 million?
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A story bible is hardly a new concept and Bungie are not the ones to coin the term.
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It's not ego; it's an accepted industry term. Deal with it.
It's not uncommon at all for franchises to have a "bible" they must follow - this may be the first time a video game producer insists on one, but maybe if others had, we wouldn't be getting a Doom sans Hell and demons.
Personally, the Halo games aren't revolutionary for me - the gameplay is alright, at best (for me). But I love the story bungie is telling, and I quite like their presentation. I hope that, if a movie is made, they follow the existing work quite tightly.
Really, if anyone could, I almost wish MS would just grab and independent studio and fund a big-budget version themselves. Might be the first time we get a game movie that was truly faithful. And that's coming from a died-in-the-wool Linux zealot (posted from a Gentoo box).
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