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2:00PM David Wildgoose | As you know by now, Microsoft brought the Halo Warthog to Sydney as part of their promotional activities for Halo 3: ODST. We were curious to find out how much it might cost to keep it here. More »
Can You Afford Your Own Halo Warthog?
2:00PM David Wildgoose | As you know by now, Microsoft brought the Halo Warthog to Sydney as part of their promotional activities for Halo 3: ODST. We were curious to find out how much it might cost to keep it here. More » 
Features
Jackson Explains How Fate Killed Halo And Gave Birth To District 9
4:00AM Brian Crecente | SAN DIEGO, California – Peter Jackson has been a gamer his entire life, so when Microsoft hired him to produce the movie version of Halo, there was genuine excitement in the air. More »
Culture
The Nintendo DS Can Also Draw Amazing Pictures Of Cars
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Christian Pearce works at special effects workshop WETA (Lord of the Rings, King Kong). Christian Pearce also enjoys drawing cars, which he does on his Nintendo DS. More »
Culture
Blizzard HQ’s 12-Foot World Of Warcraft Statue
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Little while back, World of Warcraft developers Blizzard moved into new offices. As part of the move, employees were given little statues. The building itself, however, got a big statue. More »
Culture
This Guy Has Driven A Real, Working Warthog
5:30PM Luke Plunkett | New Zealand’s WETA made a real Warthog for Neil Blomkamp’s Halo movie pitch. The movie never went anywhere. But the Warthog? It’s still around, still being driven by grown men dressed as Halo marines. More »
Weta’s Fancy Halo Statues
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Yeah, Weta are a special effects house (Lord of the Rings, etc), but they’re also in the business of selling merch. And when Weta sell merch, they don’t do lunchboxes and cheap action figures. They do expensive stuff. This is their upcoming Halo 3 collection, featuring five statues that vary in not only size, but tackiness as well, as they range from the classy to the, well. Tacky. No word on price yet, but here’s a hint: they won’t be cheap. More »
Get A Closer Look At WETA’s Warthog
5:00PM Luke Plunkett | The rate things are going, they may never make a Halo movie. So that short Neil Blomkamp put together last year may be as close as you get. And these shots of the Warthog used in that short may be as close as you get to it. Built by WETA, the guys behind the special effects for Lord of the Rings, it’s crazy the amount of detail that went into a vehicle built not for a movie, or even a trailer, but a cheap concept pitch. Plenty of pics at the link below. Close Up: Weta’s Warthog (Part 1) [NZGamer] More »
WETA, Bless Them, Send Bungie Some Real Halo Weapons
12:20AM Luke Plunkett | Yeah, the Halo movie’s on a long, unpaid vacation, but that doesn’t mean Peter Jackson’s WETA special effects studio have been sitting on their collective asses. They’ve already made a bunch of weapons and props for the film, and with the project doing naught but gathering dust, they figured they may as well send some over to Bungie, let them have a go. Here, you can see the results. Sure, Master Chief is handy with a pistol, but could he ever rock a sweater like that? No. No he could not. More »
