It is with a heavy heart that I submit this as news, but work on Halogen - the Halo total conversion mod for C&C Generals: Zero Hour - has been halted because Microsoft deem it to be infringing on the intellectual property of Bungie Studios.
From the site:
"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."
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Aww man! I was really looking forward to this mod, I have been waiting for ages! And now look what has happened :(
That is a real shame, but I guess this is really not Bungies fault, they would probably have no saying in this decision. That is the problem with big companies like Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo when it comes to fan created games. They have their own legal department, who are not very flexible on such matters and the people who work with the legal stuff are not gamers. But on the other hand they do have full rights to protect their IP so it is a difficult situation.
Im sure someone else will carry on their work in some shady out-of-site way. It'll just be harder to get hold of
it sucks when looked in gamer`s perspective; but is it wrong for a company to protect their intellectual properties and secure their future? now less pretend microsoft allow this to happen; people would destroy the IP(intellectual property) and so many variations of halo (including non rts) that no one would even buy it whwn published my M$. this happens with pacman and other games all over the internet. sucks as a gamer we would like everything for free. also who wouldn't want a halo rts? lets just hope bungie makes it in the future....
Could someone explain the "Cool"/"Lame&qu ot; system to me? I checked the "About Site" for info, couldn't find any. I even tried clicking on one, at which point it voted cool for me :S
Is it cool from the point of view of "it's a good story" (i.e. you don't necessarily like the upshot) or cool from the point of view of "I like what the story is telling me" (in this case, that Halogen got shut down).
Couldn't find anywhere else to ask this, argh I'm so confused!