Search Results for: Halo

8 CMS features customers want but never use: Janus Boye nails this list of features customers ask for but never use.  First on his list is also first on mine.Workflow is something most customers ask for, but the vast majority don’t use it. Some use very simple approval processes, but that’s quite far from some [...]

Xbox 360 and PS3 – flops instead of gigaflops?: I stumbled on this article today while research the questions about console processing power that comments on this post brought up. Regardless of that, the comments on the article are pretty funny in the context of today. This article was over two years ago, and it’s [...]

Halo 3 New TV Ad – Diaorama – Believe: Corey points us to this TV ad for Halo 3: It is, by far, my favorite commercial of the year. Absolutely. I never knew an ad for a video game could be…touching. Watch it all the way through.

Halo 3 Review (Xbox 360): The first Halo 3 review is in (I’m told it’s the first — no idea how true that is), and it’s good. A 9.7 out of 10, though I wonder about the neutrality of a site called “Team XBox.” […] we’re happy to report that Halo 3 is not only [...]

World’s Richest Person: In my mind, it’s not true until Forbes says it’s true, and they’re not issuing a new list until next April. Gates has been on top of that list for 12 years now. Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world’s richest man, worth an estimated $67.8 billion, after overtaking Microsoft founder Bill [...]

He, For One, Does Not Welcome Our New Wii Overlords: Interesting commentary about how the apparently massive success of the Wii will affect harder-core games. If Nintendo has its way, young males will no longer be the dominant segment of the console audience — and this transition appears to be happening faster than I expected. [...]

The Great Hollywood Journey, Part II: This is direct from Bungie: They’ve secured an Executive Producer to help guarantee the creative integrity and technical excellence of the Halo film. And that Executive Producer’s name is Peter Jackson. I’ll give you a second to process. If you’re having a strong, emotional reaction, don’t panic. When I [...]

A Load of Bollocks: Film Director Uwe Boll sets the web ablaze: Here’s a great Metafilter post with a collection of links about Uwe Boll, who is the first film director to specialize in video game adaptions. He apparently buys the rights and produces the films himself. Dr. Uwe Boll is developing quite a reputation [...]

Bloop: Since 1997, Navy sonar equipment has occasionally picked up a sound they think is coming from the South Pacific, about 1,000 miles off the coast of South America. They don’t know what it is, but they think it’s alive. The sound, detected by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array which uses U.S. Navy [...]

… you find yourself playing a video game for days on end. Like the South Korean guy who died of heart failure after playing Halo almost non-stop for 3 days. Of course, the first indication of trouble should have been when he quit his job so he could devote more time to playing the game. [...]