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To "keep pace with development".

Microsoft has admitted that it's staffing up for its Halo collaboration with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson.

Internet detectives over at MTV unearthed job postings recently on Microsoft's website that mentioned working with "an external luminary" in relation to "a new experience in the Halo universe".

It turns out that even Microsoft couldn't brush that one off as rumour and speculation, so the company clarified matters thus:

"Since [the original X06 announcement], Microsoft Game Studios has been hard at work collaborating with Peter Jackson and Bungie on the development of that project.

"At this time, it's necessary to grow the internal team to keep pace with development. Bungie will continue to remain involved in multiple aspects of the Halo Universe with MGS."

There's still no real word on what the Jackson Halo game is, apart from mutterings in early 2007 about episodic content.

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Widge #1 4 years ago

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Don't own a 360 but keeping my eye on this since I loved what he did with LOTR. Loved the Weta/Andy Serkis input into Heavenly Sword so more from New Zealand please!
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towser #2 4 years ago

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"Oh dear, another Jackson project with bad acting, wankatronic use of CGI-effects and an annoying marketing campaign coming our way. How lovely."

Quick! Burn the non-believer!!!
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Xerx3s #3 4 years ago

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HEATHEN!
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kangarootoo #4 4 years ago

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Hmmmm. Much as I wanted to feel otherwise, King Kong the game just wasn't that good. It looked nice, but gameplay was basic and it had some serious flaws. That said, its not like PJ is the only guy making the game and Bungie have plenty of talented people.
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The-Bodybuilder #5 4 years ago

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So this is an xbox 720 launch title then?
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The-Bodybuilder #6 4 years ago

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@ kangarootoo

Was PJ involved in the development of the game?
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Widge #7 4 years ago

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Are Bungie on board for this? I thought they'd left the Halo IP to move onto new things?
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groovychainsaw #8 4 years ago

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Personally, i thought the king kong game was great, but I realise PJ had little to do with it (i believe?). It was michael ancel's game i believe. The best thing in it was the superb adaptive difficulty, I remember I had a good run of a couple of hours without dying, then ran round the corner to face 4 T-Rexes . Needless tyo say, I died.
Back on topic, I still don't know what Peter Jackson would have to offer a game reall,y apart from really long cut scenes or a lot of CG? And we've already got MGS4 coming out soon for those ...
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Negotiator #9 4 years ago

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A new Halo this year, I hope so. On a side note GTA is out Tuesday and you can only get the full GTA 4 experience on Xbox 360, only 159.99.
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miiiguel #10 4 years ago

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Don't realy care about the price, but I'm sure the full experience is on a tree-six-tee near you...
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Widge #11 4 years ago

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nice one! I'm going to play it on my PS3!
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miiiguel #12 4 years ago

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2/3rd of the experience then. But you have my sympathy. I know a few collegues also tied to the past.
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CreepinJesus #13 4 years ago

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"Bungie will continue to remain involved in multiple aspects of the Halo Universe with MGS."

Halo and Metal Gear Solid in one game ?
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Negotiator #14 4 years ago

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nice one! I'm going to play it on my PS3!

One born every minute.
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Widge #15 4 years ago

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what? is there a problem with that by any chance?
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Widge #16 4 years ago

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easy now miiiiguel! you KNOW my reasons for going for my platform of choice, and its perfect for me, as is yours for you!

and to save time bleating it out again:

http://ww w.eurogamer.net/article_discuss...

Edited by 1 at 24/04/08 @ 11:06
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miiiguel #17 4 years ago

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@Widge: just fooling arround, man. It's this problem with written speech, it has no tone...
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Widge #18 4 years ago

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HEY

you know I'm easy to wind up

picking on me!
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muscleblade #19 4 years ago

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@Widge

"its perfect for me"

You fancy movies over games then.
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Negotiator #20 4 years ago

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Anyone got any ideas what type of Halo game this will be?
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The-Bodybuilder #21 4 years ago

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@ Negotiator

You should change your name to the "Salesman".
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CrudMonk #22 4 years ago

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Meet the Feebles game coming soon.
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Widge #23 4 years ago

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eh, I have 15 games on my PS3?
and the movie stuff
and the wifi media streaming from my PC
and the HDTV so I can watch bluray films and h264 files

so from the above I'd say I like films, games and music all equally

and I DO love games, I nip off at lunch to play stuff like STALKER, C&C3 and Bioshock on my laptop in a meeting room! Which is better than doing circuits round the rural town where my office is.....

Edited by 1 at 24/04/08 @ 15:13
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kangarootoo #24 4 years ago

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@The Bodybuilder

I'm sure there was all sorts of waffle at the time about how each stage of the game was pased to and fro, developed in line with the film and so on. Tbh it could have just been the visual that look that needed PJ sign off. I knew Michel Ancel was involved, but I just thought that PJ had input.
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