Fox and Universal cut funding for Halo movie. Jon Polito casted as Master Chief?

Universal and 20th Century Fox today have announced that they will not be funding the Halo movie. The movie was estimated to cost around $135 million; however, apperently the price rose to an even higher amount of $200 million. Peter Jackson is still working on pre-production material, despite this rather large set back.

According to Kotaku, Jon Polito will play the role of Master Chief. This was defenantly not my first choice, or my second, but maybe they have something up there sleeve.

Read Kotaku's Post

Microsoft shuts down Halo RTS project, Halogen

Halogen, was an ongoing project to create a real-time strategy game in the Halo universe. After three years without any legal action, Microsoft only a couple of days ago pulled the plug. The following was taken directly off the Halogen homepage:

"Dear Friends,

For the last three years, we've worked incessantly to bring you the best Halo mod that we could. There have been a lot of ups and downs, but somehow Halogen has always managed to come out kicking. The problem with using copyrighted intellectual property as a base for a fan project is that you're very susceptible to legal action. We always figured that since Halogen was such a different take on the Halo franchise, we might manage to make it without incident. That changed today.

Hours ago, we finally recieved the words we've been dreading since the mod started to get noticed. Microsoft has decided that we are infringing on the intellectual property of Bungie Studios and has asked us to stop development on Halogen."

The mod looked pretty damn promising, and below are a couple of videos I found off of Youtube.

Halogen Homepage