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Technically, Andy, Master Chief is a space squid. The Marines are a specific entity within the United Nations Space Command of which John 117 is not a part. He's part of Naval Special Weapons group, which reports directly to UNSC High Command. A small difference, yes, but I'm sure your readers...

Maybe it's just too early in the morning, but I first interpreted the article header as if the Human Resources department at Eidos has decided to do game production. Time for more coffee...

I was going to see this anyway, just because of the Boston setting. Glad to hear it's actually funny.

Yep, shoulda stayed in Maynard. I love how, less than a year after 38 went south, the city of Boston launched a massive incentives campaign to grow the game industry in the area. Sucks for everyone involved, including Curt. He was a true believer.

What? The New York Times, a failing publication from a bygone era of mono-opinionated journalism, writing a rage-invoking review of a genre, with which they have a history of pigeonholing, that is clearly meant to piss off fans and direct more traffic to their site? I don't believe it. The...

Technically, this is only 1/3rd of the World of Warcraft. And that's if you don't count Outlands. We still need Eastern Kingdoms and Northrend to complete all of Azeroth.

Out of curiosity, is there anything specific about the Halo universe that turns you off or makes you disinterested?

I will agree that the novel series has not been universally consistent in literary quality. The Flood, in particular, was not very well written. It was clearly a simple conversion of Halo: CE's game narrative into book form. That being said, calling the entire library 'not very well written' is...

A Bigger Universe The Halo media franchise has created a rich narrative universe that you've never heard about. Read Full Article