Rampancy

Traditional media are picking up on the announcement that Peter Jackson will be the executive producer on the upcoming halo feature film.

Reuters reports that Jackson and his wife, Fran Walsh, will share the executive producing role as a team. Universal will do production and domestic distribution, while Fox does international. Halo will be shot in Wellington, New Zealand using Jackson's production and post-production facilities. A director is to be named "in coming weeks". Similar stories are popping up at Coming Soon, CNN, TechNewsWorld, Canoe (a Canadian news site) and Geekzone (an NZ-based site).

So far the reaction about Jackson's appointment to the Halo movie project seems to be drowning out any buzz from Microsoft's X05 event in Amsterdam, but we assume those announcements will start trickling in. (Doubtless this was the "big thing" Frankie hinted at last week--Ed.)

UPDATE: And now it's hit Slashdot. It was inevitable.

According to another story at Inside Mac Games late last week, the Macintosh and PC versions of Stubbs have now reached alpha status, while the Xbox version is in beta, according to the Project Status page at Aspyr, which is publishing the Macintosh and PC versions. The game is due out in November for those platforms and in October for the Xbox.

For those fans of Halo and Halo 2, or even of the Myth series of RTS games, that aren't familiar with Bungie's version of ancient history, also known as the 1990s, Inside Mac Games has put up a Marathon Primer, and the denizens of the Marathon Story Page are already picking it to pieces looking for small errors and omissions.

Thanks to ukimalefu who posted the initial link the Marathon Story Forum.