SCENE: The rec room in a basement of a suburban home.
At a table strewn with lead figurines and hex-graph paper sit FOUR PLAYERS and a DUNGEON MASTER, behind his dragon-emblazed standing folder.
DUNGEON MASTER: Did you hear about Gygax?
JAPHETH BLIGH (8th-level warrior): What’s that? A troll? I’m taking out my +5 Longsword–
HELVETICA the MEDIUM (6th-level Cleric) [...]

Halo 3: It’s a phenomenon. It’s a virus. I work with a guy who bought Halo 3 yesterday morning and today, he’s not there: he has been struck with a mysterious illness. I expect I’ll see him tomorrow, glassy-eyed, twitchy, and with a mild case of carpel-tunnel syndrome.
In the world of motion pictures, they love [...]

Because there doesn’t NEED to be. This just in from the Hollywood Reporter:
Touting “the biggest entertainment launch in history,” Microsoft Wednesday announced that sales of the video game “Halo 3″ brought in an estimated $170 million during its first 24 hours on store shelves, making it the biggest one-day launch ever in the U.S. marketplace.

Remember [...]

Guess what’s available on eBay:

That’s right, it’s the hand-made Master Chief armor you’ve always wanted! There’s only one (you’re lookin’ at it) and once it’s gone, you’ll have to kill whomever outbid you to get it. From the eBay description:
You can have this suit in time for the halo (sic) launch! Wait until people see [...]

Remember a couple of days ago we linked to an underwhelming Xbox product intro, in which Peter Moore introduced the HALO-themed Xbox 360 to yawns and snickering? You don’t? Well, Microsoft remembers. And now Peter Moore is working elsewhere.
Fresh off the startling announcement that it would take a charge of more than $1 billion to cover [...]

Hey, lookie there! It’s the new Xbox! This week at Microsoft’s annual E3 Event, Peter Moore introduced the game console, which will be released in September to coincide with the premiere of Halo 3, the game that’s keeping the Xbox alive. Gizmodo reports this Xbox has the following features:
* Halo 3 Special Edition Console
* Halo [...]

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In todays show: Halo 3 is not released but it is allowed a little sunlight… first run movies in your home - who wouldn’t want that? … and in my commentary; Boston, augh, Boston. All this and networks announce the new fall shows, I [...]

I jumped the BFG yesterday when I threw in a gratuitous HALO reference in an effort to drive up my search engine count. Had I done a little research, I’d have found a genuine HALO story. Then I could have mentioned HALO despite having nothing to say about HALO.
An ad for HALO appeared during ESPN’s [...]

I’ve been seeing this everywhere I look for the last four hours, so I guess it’s your turn - a stunning, terrifying re-cut of MARY POPPINS to make it look like a horror movie. Further illustration of why you can’t trust the trailers.
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Update May 15, 2007: Halo 3 semi-beta released! More news here!
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A multi-zillion dollar adaptation of the popular video game HALO is being put on hold, the victim not of an alien attack, but a failure of dealmaking.
The film is a co-production of Peter (KING KONG) Jackson and Paul (MICROSOFT) Allen, and had enjoyed the [...]