It's quite interesting that a project like Halo will not have the main character from the game to play as the main character in the movie as well - he will have a "secondary-supporting" role apprently. Joseph Staten, Bungie’s writing director and author of the book Contact Harvest, has mentioned in a recent interview that the Chief will be seen as a supporting character to the other characters: "I think what it boiled down to with the film was really a question of 'Who is the main character of the movie?' Is it the Master Chief or is it somebody else? And over time I think everybody around the table agreed that the Master Chief is best left as the most important supporting cast member." <-125x125 Button - right->The reasoning behind this answer was explained by Joseph as being really difficult to have a movie with a main character who's face nobody ever saw (well there was a leaked short movie on the web, but that's another story). However, it's still interesting to see how things will finally develop as this "temporary solution" will certainly not please the fans. This happened to the "Enter The Matrix" video game - where the gamers didn't get the chance to play as Neo, but later on, there was another game released, based on the Matrix trilogy, "The Path of Neo" which settled the score more or less.

Blizzard Entertainment is currently working on Starcraft II, a descendant of a very famous old game, Starcraft, played by many strategy games fans. The sequel game has been announced on May 19 2007, and recently there was a pre-rendered video trailer released for the awaiting gamers. It almost looks like a shooter game. The game story line of Starcraft II happens after four years since the original Starcraft ended. A lot of features like the return of a number of heroes and villains from the original game, such as Zeratul, Arcturus Mengsk, Artanis, Sarah Kerrigan and Jim Raynor are likely to entertain the gamers. Sources confirmed that the Xel'Naga, the ancient space-faring race responsible for creating the Protoss and the Zerg, will also play a major role in the story. See below the video trailer where we get to see how a fully featured armor is assembled:

 The "controversial" video game Mass Effect has caused a lot of issues for some "opinion-makers" on the Internet and that made them externalize it in their blogs. Hey, after all this one way to become famous - at least for Kevin McCullough, a very conservative blogger. He posted a lot of misinformed statements in his blog about the Mass Effect video-game, claiming that the younger gamers are exposed to explicit content within the game-play. It is one thing to know exactly what you're talking about and give accurate descriptions and a totally different thing to set pure opinions as true and valid statements. Kevin is currently being ridiculed by all gaming websites, oh yes, he had it coming allright. But what makes things even spicier is that he keeps posting more "documented" arguments on his blog. Among other things he says: "The most realistic sex acts... - from the YouTube footage I saw, I still concur, to me these acts are the most realistic put in video games - that I have seen. In the lesbian version one woman's hand appears to stimulate the crotch of the other passing between the legs. Today many of the more perv-oriented gamer-nerds took delight in describing for me the detailed description of games they claim are MORE realistic... Ok fine, I'll take them at their word, but for me the statement stands..."

Some gamers who know a lot more about the game than he does started profiling him, FBI style (like in the Criminal Minds TV Show): "The unsub (the suspect) was probably molested by a videogame  when he was a young boy and suffers from the 'misinformed and self-righteous people' syndrome. Real gamers should either stay away from his Internet blog or just laugh at his statements. Best course of action: try the game yourself and then decide."

 Apparently so - well too many of them are - as the developers of Call of Duty 4 have noticed: a lot of gamers on the multiplayer servers and most of them using pirated cd-keys, no-cd patches and the like - the amount of people using such methots has reached too high numbers and if such gamers don't start buying the original discs, we might be running out of new games. A developers of Call of Duty 4 has created a post entitled "They Wonder Why People Don't Make PC Games Any More":

"On another PC related note, we pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing Multiplayer (which was fantastic). What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online). Not sure if I can share the exact numbers or percentage of PC players with you, but I'll check and see; if I can I'll update with them. As the amount of people who pirate PC games is astounding. It blows me away at the amount of people willing to steal games (or anything) simply because it's not physical or it's on the safety of the internet to do."

The (in)famous producer and director of movies based on video games, Uwe Boll is broke! His latest action movie, based on the Dungeon Siege video game, "In the Name of the King", is a commercial flop: the estimated full costs of the making of the movie is $70 million. This week-end the movie earned just $3 million, which shows public's interest in Uwe Boll's works. Even if this movie could be better than the previous works, many game-fans have been greatly dissapointed by Boll's previous adaptations and in the knowledge that nothing good comes out of his "creative genius" many have refused to go and watch the new movie in the cinemas. But I think I know who will enjoy this movie: the internet pirates at the PirateBay popular torrent website - because they think if it comes for free it might not be such a bad idea to watch it on a Saturday evening. Boll has been funding these projects from a tax-shelter fund from Germany - but now that such funds have been banned in the country it means that Boll will get no more funding for his projects - therefore, no more "bad movies".