Codex, the new WordPress community wiki and documentation repository, has instructions on how to make the switch.
For the most part it’s no different than upgrading from 1.2 to 1.2.1, for example. The main difference is that you need to delete your old WordPress files first. The article also includes directions on how to turn your current index.php file into a WordPress 1.5 theme.
Variety reports that Microsoft is working to bring their popular video game franchise to the multiplex masses. The really tasty bit of gossip, however, is that the Redmond giant is trying to dodge the studio system:
Bestselling vidgame franchise “Halo” has taken its first major step toward the bigscreen, but without the studio system that has ruined so many of its brethren. Microsoft has quietly put the finishing touches on a million-dollar deal to hire Alex Garland to adapt the games into one movie.
That’s the most info you can get without being a Variety subscriber, which I’m not. A tantalizing tidbit, however. An article in The Seattle Times has more:
According to Variety, Microsoft is planning to develop the script on its own and take it to movie studios only after it is complete. Such a move in Hollywood is unusual for a tech company, the report said.
Microsoft likely wants to make sure that the “Halo” brand isn’t diluted, said Matt Rosoff, an analyst covering the company at Directions on Microsoft, a Kirkland-based independent research firm.
Alex Garland — the screenwriter retained by Microsoft — was the scribe behind the zombie-epidemic hit (there’s those zombies again) 28 Days.
(Props: Gamespot for the original scoop, Peter O’Kelly’s Reality Check for pointing me to the Times article)
Speaking of pirates, here’s a game that Colleen might appreciate.
Johnny Liu of 1UP.com expounds on the archetypal video game characters:
There are five character types that shall be prevalent in gaming until the end of time: monkeys, ninjas, pirates, zombies, and robots. Until the day when all five are forged as one, we’ll have games that make the most of these separate necessities.
And when the day comes that a game introduces us to the zombified robotic ninja pirate monkey, I’m totally slapping down my $50 for that baby.
