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Halo nabs the #50 spot on 1UP's list of The Essential 50, a list of the most important games ever made. Thanks Joystiq.

[image:9042 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Alex "The Man" Seropian, founder of Wideload Games, did a Q&A recently on their upcoming game, Stubbs the Zombie in 'Rebel Without a Pulse'. Click "read more" below for the full interview, and also check out three new screenshots in the Stubbs gallery.

Q. What’s the plot of the game?
A. The game follows the exploits of Stubbs, a Zombie, as he embarks on a quest for true love and brutal revenge in Punchbowl, Pennsylvania, a city of the future built in the 1950s.

Q. How did you come up with this idea?
A. It was a collaborative effort by our small internal prototyping team. We started with a bunch of ideas and spent some time developing the most promising ones. Ultimately the team picked Stubbs the Zombie as the game that would become Wideload's first project.

The Master Chief has actually already made his Hollywood debut, appearing in theaters in the cinematic trailer that kicked off the I Love Bees phenomenon. But now it appears as if the long-time question, "wouldn't a Halo movie be cool" might soon end up having a real, definitive answer.

The answer still from Bungie is still a variation on "no comment" from the latest Weekly Update by Frankie; however, all Microsoft is saying is that they have not "made any official movie announcements" in response to questions generated by their hiring of writer Alex Garland (IMDB) of 28 Days Later and The Beach fame, and the rumor mill is that Garland would be adapting Halo for the silver screen.

Of course, not all the news was about Halo or Bungie:

• WideloadGames.org pointed out an interview with Alex Seropian at 1UP about Wideload Games and Stubbs the Zombie, and an interview with Aspyr's Glenda Adams at Macworld (Aspyr is publishing Stubbs on the Mac).
• mrsmiley of Halo Babies fame points out his interview with Wideload's Matt Soell, former Bungie Community Guy and writer on Stubbs the Zombie.