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Microsoft and Jackson pair up for game |
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Microsoft announced that it is partnering with King Kong director Peter Jackson and his writing partner, Fran Walsh, to create the next Halo video game and a second as-yet-undetermined game. Jackson and Walsh, who are producing an upcoming movie based on the Halo game
franchise, will work with Bungie Studios on the next Halo title.
Jackson and Walsh are also collaborating with Microsoft Game Studios
to create Wingnut Interactive, which is described as a world-class interactive entertainment studio. Wingnut will combine the strength
of Microsoft's technology and interactive entertainment experience
with the creative and imaginative excellence of the Wingnut Interactive team.
"Microsoft has built an amazing living canvas with Xbox 360 and Xbox
Live, which allows the storytellers of our time to express themselves
in a new medium. They have fundamentally changed how people think
about games," Jackson said in a statement. "My vision, together with
Microsoft Game Studios, is to push the boundaries of game development
and the future of interactive entertainment. From a moviemaker's point of view, it is clear to me that the Xbox 360 platform is the stage where storytellers can work their craft in the same way they do today with movies and books, but taking it further with interactivity."
The Halo movie will be directed by Neill Blomkamp, under the Wingnut
Films banner, for Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox.
In related news, Microsoft Game Studios has announced Halo Wars, an
all-new real-time strategy game based on the Halo universe, created
exclusively for the Xbox 360 by Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires).
Halo Wars places the player in command of human URNS armies as they
deploy for mankind's first deadly encounter with the enemy Covenant
forces.
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