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Doom on Xbox Live, Jackson Making Halo Game

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the holy-xboxen-batman dept.

Microsoft is pulling out all the stops in its X06 Keynote today in Barcelona. The announcements are flying fast and furious: Ensemble studios is making a Halo RTS, and Peter Jackson is making a new Halo game (unrelated to Halo 3 or the RTS). The HD-DVD will be $200 in the U.S. with a release aimed at November of this year. They've got a good deal of 360 exclusive content including the next Splinter Cell and GTA IV Episodes, and (initially) Bioshock. Bioshock will also be on Windows, of course. Windows is also the platform on which Microsoft is announcing a new Massively Multiplayer game from Cryptic Studios, a new super-hero MMOG based on Marvel Comics' IP: Marvel Universe Online.

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  1. Thank God by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was wondering what I'm going to do with my Windows machine...

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    1. Re:Thank God by SilentChris · · Score: 4, Funny

      There should be a law that if you have no sense of humor you shouldn't be allowed to make jokes.

    2. Re:Thank God by heinousjay · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's a fun day on Slashdot when a fawning Linux acolyte catches a troll mod.

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  2. ATTN: Peter Jackson ! by LDoggg_ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please don't work on the Halo thing until after The Hobbit.
    Your actors aren't getting any younger.

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  3. Merchandising, merchandising, merchandising! by The+Mad+Debugger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Halo the toilet paper, Halo the lunchbox, Halo the flamethrower! (The kids love this one).

    Good thing the game industry is such a source original thought and creativity.

    1. Re:Merchandising, merchandising, merchandising! by Shacky · · Score: 1, Funny

      I can just hear the Spaceballs theme now... Good stuff.. funny :) - Mod Parent up another!

  4. What's that I hear? by Lovedumplingx · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think I just heard Sony slit their wrists.

    Really though...these are some big announcements and I haven't heard Sony coming with anything to match them yet.

  5. Misread by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did anyone else read that title and think: "Sweet. Steve Jackson is going to make a Halo game!"

    1. Re:Misread by Shipwack · · Score: 2, Funny

      Steve Jackson Games making the next Halo game sounds all well and good, up until the point where the Feds come in and bust him for making a murder simulator trainer...

  6. First level 60 superhero by cubicledrone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spider-man.. Spider-man.. does whatever a Spider can...

    THREE UNDEAD ROGUES APPEAR

    Cheap shot! Cheap shot! Ambush crit!

    "OH NOES SPIDEY USE YOUR WEBZ!"

    "HE CAN'T! HE WAS BLINDED/KIDNEY SHOTTED/GOUGED/VANISHED/CHEAP SHOTTED FIFTEEN TIMES!!"

    "EEEEERRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHZZZZZZZZZZ!!" /laugh /spit /dance /violin /vanish /vanish /vanish

    Can't wait.

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  7. Re:Non FPS Halo games? by le0p · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why do you seem so shocked about the possibility for a HALO RTS when you don't know what the game is about? It's like saying "I've got no idea what this game is about, how could they make it into an RTS??? Preposterous!"

    As for Peter Jackson, see: Petr Jackson talks the Halo Movie

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  8. Re:"Leak" by Psychotext · · Score: 4, Funny

    People buy the Xbox to play Halo, get it? Not the other way around.

    I'm glad, "People buy the Halo to play Xbox" wouldn't have made any sense at all...

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  9. Re:What about a 360 MMORPG?!? by saboola · · Score: 4, Funny

    When you're chatting around the water cooler with your friends at work do you need a fucking keyboard?!?!

    "Yes"

    -Stephen Hawking