Over five years ago, Video Games Live made its first-ever debut at the Hollywood Bowl before an audience of 11,000 people. Featuring the video games from all eras, the show is an immersive concert event that combines live orchestra music with synchronized lighting and live action. What started out as a novel concept, pushed forward by industry veterans Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, has become an internationally touring sensation that made its return to Seattle on Saturday night. more ›

People were lining up over a day in advance to get into the awesome launch party for Microsoft's latest offering in their critically acclaimed Halo franchise, Halo: Reach. The event gave rabid Halo fans the chance to playtest the game and count down to the midnight launch together in the futuristic comfort of a hazy, laser-filled auditorium at Seattle's Experience Music Project. While the fans fragged each other at one of the many stations set up to demo the title, this Seattlest snuck in behind enemy lines to get some exclusive time with two of the key people behind the game: Bonnie Ross, the general manager for the Halo franchise, and Josh Holmes, the studio creative director and the visionary behind the Halo: Reach experience. more ›

• John Cook, former newspaper reporter and current blogger at TechFlash.com, lists twelve tech meisters who could save the P-I. Among the illustrious names on the list: Crosscut's David Brewster and Rich Barton, the guy who started Zillow.com.
• Barack Obama must have been such a sweet, angelic child, like baby Jesus only with a bigger halo. Turns out that he lived on our Capitol Hill as a baby, and Capitol Hill Times found his address. Small children residing at 13th & Republican, you too could be President of the United States someday.
• Cameras were rolling at Seacrest in West Seattle this weekend when Tick Tock Productions used the location for six hours to film what was rumored to be a TV pilot. West Seattle Blog has photos of the...er...explosive shoot.

Microsoft has had a Halo movie in the works for a while now, but it looks like it was killed this week. Universal was supposed to produce the Redmond-written script, a budget was set of $145 million and no less than Peter Jackson was set to produce, but late last week it was revealed that the studio wanted to renegotiate terms and Microsoft bailed. A great post on the subject at GigaOm asks, "The real mystery is why Microsoft is still plowing ahead. Has anyone bothered to tell them a Halo movie must be one of the most ill-inconceived film projects ever?" more ›