Comments on: Microsoft, Peter Jackson to form game studio

Called Wingnut Interactive, the New Zealand-based game shop will join in Microsoft's "Halo" efforts.

[umbrae]

In other words...

All Halo games will suck after Halo 3...

[Tomcat Adam]

Probably.

In before the onslaught of "Halo/console shooters Sux anyways" comments.

Jackson becomes M$ drone

Now that Jackson has sold his soul to M$, you can
http://www.teckmagazine.com/content/view/631/43/
bet that nothing good will be released.

[JJWhitney]

Good News

My hope is they screw up Bungie so badly with these knockoff Halo products that the Talent leaves and goes back to where they belong:

Making PC games.

[sbwinn]

You mean Mac Games

If you think Bungie made PC games for a living, you've never heard
of Marathon.

[t8]

The trouble with Xbox

The problem with Xbox is it is a Microsoft product and there are no free antivirus software packages available for it.

[spacydog]

Um... ok

When was the last time your console gaming machine had a virus on it? You can make the same comment for all other consoles.

[FutureGuy]

intresting

I am guess you have never come close to a game console, any game console, to make a remark like this.

[beautifulheroes]

Hey, it's Peter Jackson.

At least they'll flow well...

[pjianwei]

Games have a different treatment.

No one is complaining that games cannot be shared, PC games excluded, it is basically a DRM product. The europeans are not complaining that the games for one console cannot be played on another console and the format war aka Bluray and HDDVD. Why is there a different treatment between games and other digital products like music and movies?

[richto]

Games can be shared

Xbox 360 Games can already be shared and backed up. Apparently you just install the Xtreme firmware.

Hence no one complains about the DRM - coz its already broken and you can buy or obtain removers or circumvent it. Just like HDMI, WMA, AAC, DVD, and pretty much every other sort of DRM even invented is already hacked or broken.

[kuguy3000]

yeah,,,,

I lost tremendous amounts of respect for Peter Jackson after King Kong...what a disjointed thing that was.

[donboyd23]

Oh Sure Don't Work and Sit On Your Butt

Sitting around "developing games" or directing movies. Sounds like Jackson is looking to take it easy for awhile. maybe the wife and kids were complaining he wasn't home enough.....

[qwerty75]

clueless as usual

You are not forced to make anything public, it is only if you decide to use the GPL AND distrubute it.

Lots of people are making billions on OSS, so your point is wrong as usual.

The GPL also allows linking to proprietary code, which is done somewhat often. The proprietary code stays that way.

You are also forgetting that the GPL is but one OSS license. If you don't like the reciprocity in GPL there are others to choose from.

[qwerty75]

lol

Wrong board, sorry about that.

[qwerty75]

Good

Peter Jackson is a hack director that destroyed the King Kong story and made a total mockery of The Lord of the Rings.

He should stay as far away from directing movies as possible.

[swokjr]

hack

Yeah! What the hell was that...leaving Tom Bombadil out of the movie....

the rat bastard!

[Andrew J Glina]

I agree

I liked most of "Fellowship", but thhe over use of CG and reduction of story detail to make more room for over long fights ruined the second and third movies. He is planning to ruin Dambusters next, as its producer.