Bungie game engineers had paid regular visits to Wellington, he said. 'The relationship we have with them is incredible,' he said of the Wellington game development team.īungie developers were collaborating with Jackson and his developers, daily, via email and conference calls. It was doing donuts in their parking lot. 'They sent me photographs yesterday of the Warthog in Halo 3, it's a four-wheel drive with four wheel steering. 'Peter Jackson really gets video games,' he said. Halo 3 will debut on Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console next month and, with its predecessor Halo 2 having made gaming history with sales of US$125 million (NZ$181 million) in the first day of its release in 2004, expectation is running high that Halo's debut in the next-generation gaming world will do even better.Īfter dabbling in game development through a partnership with French developer Ubisoft for the video game version of King Kong, Jackson last year formed a partnership with Microsoft that involves Wingnut developing a new Halo game instalment and an entirely new game, details of which are yet to be released.įrank O'Connor, who works on game content for Halo 3 at Microsoft-owned game studio Bungie, said Jackson's team was already in development mode. As the video game industry gets ready for the launch of sci-fi video game Halo 3, work is under way at Peter Jackson's new Wingnut Interactive games studio on a new instalment in the record-breaking franchise.

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