While its future in games and movies is still in limbo with no official announcements, Marvel has disclosed some news about the Halo Graphic Novel.

A 16-page, full-color Halo Preview comic will arrive in stores May 31st available for only $.99. A full color Halo poster showcasing the Phil Hale cover of the graphic novel will be in stores 6/28.

Nice!
The 128 page hardcover book will hit comic shops on July 12, 2006.
In other news, Halo 2 matchmaking has been updated.

Thankfully this isn’t some crap console or PC title. Instead, it looks like it’ll be some kind of online web thing gathering clues from the show with the reward being more information about the show. Given how I still don’t know why there’s a polar bear on the island, any information about the show is a good enough reward for me.
Hit series “Lost” inspires a global online game

In the days before I had TechTV and G4 hadn’t even risen, let alone fell, video game programming on television was rare.
Some kind soul has uploaded a Discovery Channel special on the history of video games, one I really liked the first time I saw it. Starts with Atari and Pong and goes up until the success of Tetris, touching on the lesser known struggles of the early days of the electronic game world.

This link also provides a download option if you want to watch on your computer or iPod.

An inventive homebrew app writer has created the first online cross platform portable game.
TIC-TAC-TOE!
Ok, so the game in question ain’t exactly that exciting, but the implications of common code and compatibility for future homebrew applications are grand!
Thanks Caliongeo!

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Alias and Lost creator and Mission Impossible 3 director JJ Abrams has been offically handed the reigns of Star Trek’s 11th feature film outing.
The story involves a young Kirk and Spock in Starfleet Academy. So its a prequel?
I’ll give them the befit of the doubt here, but my biggest gripes about the series following The Next Generation is taking all the action out of Federation space to the outskirts, way outside, and then into the past. Its like, we lost contact with this big universe TNG took so much care to create and only got further away the longer it went on. This movie hardly fixes that but the character credentials are all there so I won’t damn this outright. Lets hope JJ aborted Superman script is a fluke.

As noted earlier today the Playstation 2 is dropping twenty dollars to $129.99.

And we ask, why didn’t they go all the way to $99? I think I know why. The PS3.

Every pundit, analyst, and scholar and predicted the pricetag of Sony’s third home game console to be anywhere between “very expensive” to “EXTREMELY expensive.” Sony knows it will have to east some loss on hardware, especially if they want to stay price competitive with the Xbox 360, or even competitive with a high end gaming PC.

Microsoft was able to afford a consistent loss on the first Xbox because they have a software department that pulls in quite a bit of money. Sony’s portable electronics empire it built in the 80s has been toppled by Apple’s iPod, and their home theater department doesn’t exactly dominate the market either. The most successful arm of the Sony machine is gaming, specifically the PS2.

By still being able to scratch a profit off this 5-year old console, they’re suring up a warchest to keep them stable for the coming Playstation 3 launch. This is not to say Sony will be able to afford to get a new box out the door for $299 or even $399, but it will substantially help them to continue selling the PS2 for the highest price the market will bear. If theres still people out there who don’t own a PS2 and are willing to drop $129 on it, then thats a few more dollars Sony can roll over into padding out a PS3 launch.

Sony really can’t afford to lose the market to Microsoft. And honestly, we all know that that Sony has had some of the best developers working on their systems in the past decade. So the only real deciding factor in the Xbox 360 challenge is price. Every penny will count.

Gamespy’s review of Splinter Cell Essentials is a measly 2 out of 5. So why is Ubisoft running ad saying Gamespy liked it?
VGM has filed gathered up all the fact and the investigations and put them in one big article for your reading pleasure.

This internet oddity come straight off Digg.
Its real easy, just go to Jet Blue, then select a destination city. Hold the shift key and type “PBJ” on your keyboard. A little window will pop up.
Why? Who the heck knows. Webmaster must be an FG fan or something.