Gmail and Other Google Apps Finally Shed ‘Beta’ Label

July 7, 2009, 11:00 am

By Miguel Helft

What took Google so long?

Like many software products, Google’s Gmail service was first released with a “beta” label on it. In the software industry, a product that is in beta is still in its testing phase. Beta versions, which are sandwiched between internal “alpha” versions and final “release” versions, typically have a lifespan of weeks or perhaps months. But Gmail was different. Released on April 1, 2004, it was still in beta five years and tens of millions of users later.

That is changing Tuesday. Gmail is finally shedding the beta label, signaling that Google considers the product to be fully baked. Google is also taking three other applications — Calendar, Docs and Talk — out of beta.

So why the long wait? The official answer doesn’t entirely clarify things.

“Obviously we haven’t had a consistent set of policies or definitions around beta,” said Matt Glotzbach, a director of product management at Google. Mr. Glotzbach said that different teams at Google had different criteria for what beta meant, and that Google felt a need to standardize those. “It was time to address the issue and bring the products out of beta,” he said.

Practically speaking, the change will mean precious little to Gmail’s millions of users. But it could help Google’s efforts to get the paid version of its package of applications, which includes Gmail, Calendar, Docs and other products, adopted inside big companies. Corporate technology managers tend to shy away from beta products, and Google wants to remove any barriers to adoption that it can.

“For business customers, it is an important sign in terms of the maturity of our product offering and commitment to this business,” Mr. Glotzbach said. “I’ve had C.I.O.’s tell me that they would not consider a product labeled ‘beta.’”

Google’s efforts to gain acceptance as a provider of applications to major corporations remain embryonic. Mr. Glotzbach said that Google apps were being used by millions of businesses, though many of those may be tiny one-person operations. And he readily admits that when compared with Microsoft, which dominates the market for productivity applications, Google does not account for “an appreciable percentage” of the market. Mr. Glotzbach took no issue with the description of Google’s market share as a “speck.” But he added: “We are a fast-growing speck.”

THE Google Press Release:

Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really)

7/07/2009 08:02:00 AM

We're often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta. For example, Gmail has worn the beta tag more than five years. We realize this situation puzzles some people, particularly those who subscribe to the traditional definition of "beta" software as not being yet ready for prime time.

Ever since we launched the Google Apps suite for businesses two years ago, it's had a service level agreement, 24/7 support, and has met or exceeded all the other standards of non-beta software. More than 1.75 million companies around the world run their business on Google Apps, including Google. We've come to appreciate that the beta tag just doesn't fit for large enterprises that aren't keen to run their business on software that sounds like it's still in the trial phase. So we've focused our efforts on reaching our high bar for taking products out of beta, and all the applications in the Apps suite have now met that mark.

Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk — both enterprise and consumer versions — are now out of beta. "Beta" will be removed from the product logos today, but we'll continue to innovate and improve upon the applications whether or not there's a small "beta" beneath the logo. Indeed, today we're also announcing some other Google Apps features that we think will appeal to large enterprises: mail delegation, mail retention and ongoing enhancements to Apps reliability.

We have much more in store, and IT managers can read more about how to make the switch to Apps in our Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes resource centers. One more thing — for those who still like the look of "beta", we've made it easy to re-enable the beta label for Gmail from the Labs tab under Settings.

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The Force Is Not With Him: Anakin Skywalker 10 Years Later

by Claudine Zap    July 24, 2009

The plucky kid with the pod racer from "Star Wars: Episode I" is not a kid anymore. And Jake Lloyd wants you to know that having a major role in a George Lucas film really put a damper on things when he was growing up.

OK, fine: The guy doesn't really deserve our pity, but think of it from his point of view. Ten years old, getting blamed for ruining the Star Wars series. (Well, that was mainly the fault of George Lucas, but the kid was there, wasn't he?) And people just won't let it go. The Sci-Fi Australia blog caught up with the glum "Star Wars" alum Down Under, who sounds more Eeyore than "Episode One."

While every word drips with sarcasm (he is 20, after all) the Anakin actor also can still speak geek. On college: "You'll never find more intelligent, charming people than the drunk students of the college world." 'Nuff said.

Hey, Jake, don't worry: We know how you feel. Jar Jar Binks pretty much ruined the whole Star Wars thing for us, too.

Here's the video of the interview.

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7 Franchises That Went Bankrupt

by Emily Maltby
Monday, July 20, 2009provided by

When these well-known brands went bust, franchise owners were left to soldier on with a tarnished brand.

More from CNNMoney.com: • Crocs Lose Their Footing: Sandal Company Nearly Bankrupt • The 100 Fastest Growing Small Business • Getting Dragged into a Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy Monster Eats Cookies

Mrs. Fields
Salt Lake City, Utah

In August 2008, Mrs. Fields Famous, the parent brand of 1,200 TCBY and Mrs. Fields Cookies stores, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It didn't last long.

In October, the company emerged, having restructured its $196 million in debt down to $50 million. Its franchisees kept operating throughout.

Rebuilding From the Ground Up

Cork and Olive
Tampa

Richard Carlton

This Florida wine retail franchise grew to eight company-owned stores and nine franchisees before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2008, just four years after it opened.

All the company-owned stores shuttered, laying off 40 workers. News of the filing didn't reach franchisees until a laid-off worker from a company applied for a job at a franchisee's store.

Today, the franchisees meet regularly to discuss how to keep their brand alive without the parent company.

Bennigan's: Still Here

Bennigan's
Plano, Texas

Courtesy of Benningan's

The restaurant chain closed all of its corporate locations when it filed for Chapter 7 in July 2008. Its 138 franchisees were left in PR hell, struggling to convince patrons that they were still open for business.

In October 2008, the Eastern District of Texas' bankruptcy court approved the acquisition of Bennigan's by private equity firm Atalaya Capital, which quickly swept in to reopen the closed corporate stores. The effort has been a success -- many franchisees now own and operate former corporate stores in cities such as Santa Clara, Calif.; Charleston, W.Va. and Chicago.

Left in Limbo

Dial-A-Mattress
Long Island City, N.Y.

Catchy 1-800-MATTRES jingles couldn't pull in enough sales as the economy dipped.

The well-known mattress company chipped away its operating costs, closing almost 20 showrooms and warehouses, before throwing in the towel and declaring bankruptcy in mid-March.

Dial-A-Mattress filed for Chapter 7 -- the kind that involves liquidation --before switching several days later to Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which gave it a shot at rehabilitation.

The company tried to sell its assets to competitor Sleepy's that same month, but one of its franchisees attempted to scuttle the sale.

Consolidated Mattress Co., a franchisee that operates 1-800-Mattress' telemarketing business in certain regions, objected to the deal because it gave Sleepy's the option of rejecting existing franchise agreements.

1-800-Mattress went to auction in May and Sleepy's won with a bid of $25 million. The bankruptcy court approved the sale, adding that if Sleepy's chose to reject franchise agreements, that would be an appropriate business judgment decision. Franchisees are waiting for the next shoe to drop.

Repeat Offender

Bally Total Fitness
Chicago

It was a déjà vu for the health club chain in December 2008 when it filed for Chapter 11, a mere 14 months after emerging from its first Chapter 11 filing in July 2007.

Just weeks ago, Bally signed an agreement to emerge from bankruptcy by restructuring the $1.5 billion in debt it had accrued and by granting 94% of the company's equity to lenders such as J.P. Morgan.

A Glutton for Debt

Fatburger
Santa Monica, Calif.

Courtesy of Fatburger

Fatburger Restaurants of California and Fatburger Restaurants of Nevada, both subsidiaries of Fatburger Corp, filed for Chapter 11 in April. According to the Wall Street Journal, the parent company was not included in the filing, but the two subsidiaries accounted for 72% its total revenue in 2008.

The bankruptcy came under pressure from G.E. Capital Business Asset Funding, which Fatburger owned nearly $3.9 million for defaulted loans.

The company's 90 franchise owners are waiting to see what happens next.

A Smaller Buffet

Buffets Inc.
Eagan, Minn.

Citing the depressed economy, Buffets Holdings filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 in January 2008. The steak restaurant chain, which controlled outlets such as the Old Country Buffet, HomeTown Buffet, and Ryan's, had $964 million in assets and more than $1 billion in debt.

While the company initially said that all locations would stay open throughout its bankruptcy, 52 out of the 626 restaurants ended up closing, according to Franchise Times. On April 28, the company emerged from bankruptcy with a new balance sheet and reduced debt.

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Reach to be Bungie's Last Halo

Developer ending work on franchise next year.

by Martin Robinson, IGN UK

UK, July 24, 2009 - Halo: Reach will be Bungie's final Halo game, with the company moving on to new projects following completion of the title next year.

Halo: Combat Evolved marked the series' debut on the first Xbox back in 2001, and since then Bungie has gone on to create one of the definitive videogame franchises with the second and third instalments of the game. Halo 3: ODST is due this September, while Halo: Reach - which goes back to the origins of the Halo story - is expected next autumn.

"After Reach that's it for us," Bungie's Lars Bakken told IGN. "We're already working on a new IP that we can't talk about yet, I don't know when we'll be talking about it - when we're ready I suppose."

Bakken was cryptic as to the nature of Bungie's next game - though suggested that it may well step away from the first person mechanics that have defined the studio's output for the past decade; "If you look at Bungie's past we've done a lot of different styles - first person to third person to RTS - so it could be anything."

Future Halo games will be overseen by the recently revealed 343 Industries, which is headed up by former Bungie employee Frank O'Connor.



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Next Batman Movie to Start Filming Next Year!

Source: Silas Lesnick

July 24, 2009

Gary Oldman just announced at the Warner Bros. Book of Eli panel that a third Batman film will go into production next year.

"I think the next Batman is next year," he told a fan who asked about when the long-awaited "Dark Knight" follow-up would hit, "We start shooting next year. You didn't hear that from me."

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David Hackl Set to Direct Saw VII

Source: Variety

July 24, 2009

Lionsgate has greenlit Saw VII with a January start of production, reports Variety. David Hackl -- production designer of the second, third and fourth films and helmer of Saw V -- has been hired to direct.

Mark Burg and Oren Koules, who have produced all six of the "Saw" pics, are back as producers. And screenwriters Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, who wrote the fourth, fifth and sixth films, are writing the seventh.

Saw VI, for which Lionsgate just released a teaser and R-rated clip (watch here), opens in theaters on October 23.

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Wanted 2 to Start Shooting in 8 Weeks

Source: Superhero Hype!

July 23, 2009

Superhero Hype! talked to Mark Millar at the San Diego Comic-Con and were told that the script for Wanted 2 is done and shooting should begin within eight weeks. Timur Bekmambetov is returning to direct while James McAvoy will again play Wesley Gibson.

To read more on what the sequel will be about, click here.

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Gears of War 2: Dark Corners Review

Stop and...sneak?

by Charles Onyett

July 23, 2009 - How you react to the new Gears of War 2: Dark Corners downloadable content will depends a lot on what you're looking for. To the many still playing online, Dark Corners is essentially a map pack, containing seven battle zones to splatter with blood and guts over Xbox Live. The added campaign chapter, called Road to Ruin, is just a bonus. If you're someone who's been looking forward to trying out more story-driven Gears 2 content and are considering Road to Ruin to be the primary draw here, well you're not going to be a happy gamer if you drop 1200 Microsoft Points (15 USD) to get it.

Let's start with the campaign chapter. It launches from the Gears 2 main menu from an option labeled 'Deleted Scene.' Before digging into the mission, a message from Epic design director Cliff Bleszinski plays explaining how this content was cut out from the campaign while Gears 2 was still in production, and after playing it's not too hard to see why. Road to Ruin takes place right after the incident with Maria in the Locust underground, just as Dom and Marcus are attempting to break into Nexus. Though there are a few sequences of dialogue included as you progress through and an appearance by a character franchise fans will recognize, it doesn't really do much to enhance the overall narrative experience.


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The gameplay is also a little odd, since before running through the new content you're given the option to either proceed normally (kill everything you see), or to strap on some Theron armor and try to sneak past Locust guards. It plays just as strangely as it sounds. Though there aren't vision cones or anything like that on the Locust troops, Marcus and Dom will need to keep their distance since the Locust can smell them. You'll actually see the freakish guards sniffing around if you're within a certain proximity. Even so, the gameplay here feels cumbersome and underdeveloped, as it's simply a matter of waiting for Locust guards to continue on their patrol paths until there's an opening to rumble past or in some cases to take advantage of overly obvious environmental distractions.

Gears of War 2: All Fronts Just so you know, what's covered in this review is only the Dark Corners downloadable content, which will be made available for 1200 Microsoft Points. If you're looking to pick this up but want all the Gears of War 2 downloadable content released so far as well, then it's the All Fronts download you want, which will be priced at 1600 Microsoft Points, or $20 USD. Check out our previous impressions of the Snowblind and Combustible map packs.

Of course you can always shoot your gun, which comically pops your helmet off your head like a Corona bottlecap at a fraternity party, prompting the characters onscreen to start yelling and bleeding and dying. Ah right, this is more like it. Once stealth is broken or if you've just decided to forego the sneaking system altogether, since it is optional, the game plays much better, though it's still not really a standout Gears of War campaign experience. You'll encounter boomers and grinders and bloodmounts and a reaver, but none of the battle setups are particularly memorable. In one instance you'll come face to face with a brumak on a bridge, which in case you're not familiar is a gigantic monster strapped with heavy weapons and rocket launchers, but there's not much to the fight since you just hop on turrets to take it down.

Hmm...

Road to Ruin isn't that long of an experience so you should be done in 20 to 30 minutes or so, and it didn't strike me as something you'd want to replay over and over. As Dom so elegantly puts it near the end of the chapter, "I'm done with all this sneaking ****."

The multiplayer maps are a different story, and should be greatly appreciated by people still blasting things to bits in horde and annex and all the various other modes. The most memorable map included with the new content is called Nowhere, set in a dusty station area littered with burned out husks of cars and low-lying buildings. With a few ramps up to a rooftop and a generally open view across a lot of the map, you can be sure the fighting is going to be frantic and brutal. Anyone content to sit back and peck away at others at long range may find it more difficult, since sandstorms regularly roll across the terrain, temporarily reducing visibility.

On the larger Allfathers Garden map you'll find long passageways with sniper rifle pickups at either end, so while players can move cover to cover within its stone ruins toward the map's center, it's a space that could be dominated by anyone skilled at long-range shooting. Things open up more on the sprawling Highway map that features a number of multi-level battle zones connected by a maze of ramps that mean you've really got to pay attention to your surroundings, not only so you can keep your bearings but also so you can keep tabs on where the enemy could be hiding. Here you'll also find a number of heavy weapon pickups as well as sniper rifles and bows that can be used to tag opponents from some of the map's higher perches.

Memorial should get some solid mileage online with its central stone fountain area around which jut out low banks of cover, a perfect space for a team trying to defend the area. Moving into a few of the map's indoor sections you'll find numerous holes in the walls and space that open up in the ceilings, meaning you're almost always going to be in danger getting clipped by incoming grenades or boomshot fire. The smaller Sanctuary map is more about symmetry, with a central corridor running through a towering building and flanked by two walkways, one elevated and one that leads down. At both ends are modestly-sized landings where all the action tends to funnel, so expect a lot of close-quarters butchering to occur.

Nowhere is one of our favorite new maps.

Switches activated at one end of the Locust-themed Way Station map can, in some game modes, activate a bridge that connects pathways along an otherwise impassable central section. Expect the action here to involve intense cover-to-cover fire across the map's spine or to cluster around the two-storey structure that houses the switches. Then there's War Machine, which you may remember from the first Gears, a cramped map set in an abandoned train station where on its lower level there's a lot of opportunity for shotgun kills and close-range brutality, though you have to watch out for players that rush to the upper tier to blast down bullets from above.

Achievement points have been included here as well, and are awarded for running through Road to Ruin, playing and winning on all the added maps, along with a number of horde mode rewards on the new terrain.

Closing Comments
If you're still playing Gears of War 2 online and have managed to struggle through its rocky development since the game's launch, then you're going to want this content. Fifteen US dollars is a pretty high price, but new maps that play well are always important to maintaining a healthy online community, and that's exactly what Epic delivers here. If you are, on the other hand, someone who just wanted some additional campaign content, then don't bother with this. The Road to Ruin chapter included is labeled as a deleted scene, and that's exactly what it feels like.

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Resident Evil: Afterlife Coming in 3D!

Source: ShockTillYouDrop.com

July 23, 2009

ShockTillYouDrop.com talked exclusively to Paul W.S. Anderson, who revealed that Resident Evil: Afterlife will be released in 3D and will kick-off a new trilogy!

Anderson, who will write and direct, said that the fourth film in the franchise will have the largest budget of all the films so far.

Milla Jovovich will return as Alice in "Afterlife," opening September 17, 2010. You can also expect some returning characters from the previous films and new characters from the video games.

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Pirates 4 Starts Shooting Spring '10!

Source: Edward Douglas

July 23, 2009

Comic-Con is in full swing at this point, and ComingSoon.net got a surprise interview with Disney's Head of Production Oren Aviv where we talked about the genesis of some of the projects they were showing at the con, though we did have a lot of questions about future Disney plans as well. One of the movies that's still on the forefront of everyone's mind is the fourth installment of "Pirates of the Caribbean." Producer Jerry Bruckheimer told us a few weeks back that they were working on a script, but Aviv and Disney are definitely on board as we learned when we discovered that they have plans to be rolling film on the movie as early as next year.

"We're going to shoot 'Pirates 4' in April and May of next year," Aviv told us during our interview. "We are going to release it hopefully in 2011 is the plan." He said that this time they would only be doing one movie this time that would "hopefully be the first of another trilogy."

"It's important to get the story right and it's important to me to scale it down, because we can't get bigger," Aviv admitted. "The movies have subsequently gotten bigger and bigger and very complicated and they were satisfying on so many levels obviously, but I want to kind of reboot the whole thing and bring it down to its core, its essence, just characters." He agreed that there is a lot of Captain Jack Sparrow's back story that we haven't seen yet without confirming or denying that we might see some of that in the fourth movie. Still no word on whether Gore Verbinski might come back for the fourth movie.

Look for our full interview with Mr. Aviv very soon. It will definitely be of great interest to anyone who is wondering how Disney has been making decisions about some of the movies they've been making and will make in the future.

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What Is DEWmocracy?

DEWmocracy was a campaign launched by Mountain Dew and actor Forest Whitaker to allow online voters to select the next new flavor of Mountain Dew to be released in 2008. Three flavors were introduced; Supernova, a strawberry-melon flavor; Revolution, a berry flavor; and Voltage, a raspberry-citrus flavor. Each flavor included ginseng. On August 17, Voltage was announced as the winning flavor. It was released on December 29, 2008

The Year 2009:

July 19th in fact, Dew introduces the world to the DEW LABS CHALLENGE giving 50 lucky Dewciples a shot to win one of 50 limited edition tasting kits!

Including: 7 NEW flavors of DEW, a DEW Flip Mino Camera, and one-of-a-kind piece of art!

Those 50 winners will help decide what 3 new Mountain Dew Flavors will be apart of

DEWmocracy 2.0 (or at least thats what i hope they are goin to call it) :-p

So, in the after noon of July 21, (after checking the DEW twitter page) The last day of the contest. I Mike "Movie Miguel" decided to make a 12 video, seriously they called me "Mountain Dew" Mike in high school and to this day my Dew legacy lives on.


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I posted it all over my twitter, myspace, facebook and web site. I went to bed. All day Wed. (when winners were to be notified) all I saw all over twitter were the winners posting there videos, now I did not expect great things from my video, but after viewing some of the winners I was not impressed, and i expressed theses feeling via twitter, and some people had agreed with me, only to find out just a few hours ago I had been chosen as a winner, and Dew had been trying to get a hold of me for 2 days.


Yes, you heard me correctly yours truly Mike "Movie Miguel"... or "Mountain Dew" Mike HAS BEEN CHOSEN 1 of 50 PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, TO HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE OF MOUNTAIN DEW! more videos and fun stuff to come! stay tuned to my:
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UPDATE
From Dew Twitter:
Posted about 5:30 pm 07.23.09:
" thank you to EVERYONE who submitted a #dewlabs entry. the team was blown away by your passion for DEW. we have the BEST fans ever"

"the #dewlabs challenge is officially over. all 50 winners have been contacted & have responded. congrats to all winners!"


I will also try to Join the Dew Labs team on Friday, July 31, 2009, 11:00am - 5:00pm (offical run time, i wont be there that long sorry) @ the Speedway on Old SR-74 to try all 7 potential new flavors of DEW. Vote for your favorite and you could win a year’s supply of Mountain Dew. Get your photo taken and it could end up on our Facebook site, or your video experience could end up on our YouTube site.



To Mountain Dew: I really hope I can help or do anything I need to help out in the future, viral marketing, gorilla marketing, social networking, you name it I can do it, or try my hardest! I dont ask for much just some DEW or DEW stuff :p
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Also when I get my house I want a dew line in it like people get beer taps. I want a Dew tap, is this possible?

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Assassin's Creed II Short Films: First Pics

Details and images of Assassin's Creed II: Lineage emerge.

by Orlando Parfitt, IGN UK

UK, July 23, 2009 - We told you earlier this week that Ubisoft will be producing a series of short films based around Assassin's Creed II. Now more details have emerged about the project, including the first pictures, from The LA Times.

They reveal that there will be three short films, each running at 10-15 minutes long and shot at Ubisoft's Hybride Technologies - the special effects house they acquired last year which did effects work on Spy Kids and 300.

Yves Simoneau is directing the project - called 'Lineage' - which is prequel to the game and focuses on the father of game's hero, renaissance assassin Ezio.

Apparently 70 per cent of the 'sets' of the short films - shot almost entirely on green screen - are taken directly from the game. Most of the actors involved in the motion capture and voice-acting are also being used for the shorts.

Ubisoft hasn't given out specific release dates, but says the films will be released separately leading up to the game and then possibly bundled together in a DVD later on.

Expect more info on this project after the Assassin's Creed II panel at Comic-Con later today.

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The Bachelor Casting To Be In Westlake, Ohio

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UPDATED: 10:39 am EDT July 21, 2009

WESTLAKE, Ohio -- ABC is casting for the next season of "The Bachelor" and Channel 5 wants to invite you to try out.Auditions will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Aug. 1 at Pat O'Brien Chevrolet, which is located at 25100 Detroit Road in Westlake.If you think you have what it takes to be the next "The Bachelor" or could be the perfect woman to date him, be sure to come to Pat O’Brien Chevrolet.For more information, click here. Also, get an application in advance.

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Microsoft Making Halo Anime

Japanese production houses working seven 'Legends' short films.

by Jim Reilly

July 23, 2009 - The Halo-verse just got bigger. Microsoft is producing Halo Legends, an anime-style series comprised of seven short films that expand the story behind the wildly popular videogame franchise.

Five production houses in Japan -- Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio4 C, and Toei Animation -- are handling the animation, while Microsoft's creative staff is handling the approval for the visuals and storytelling, the software maker announced today.

"The opportunity to work with talents such as Shinji Aramaki, Mamoru Oshii and others from some of the greatest anime studios is a very rare opportunity for Microsoft," said Frank O'Connor, Halo franchise development director and provider of story and creative direction for 343 Industries.

"We've seen the world through Master Chief's eyes, and we've experienced facets of the universe through a variety of literary prisms, but now we get to watch new tales unfold in really rich, visually dynamic ways. I think anime fans and Halo fans alike are in for a real treat."

Few story details have emerged, but the Los Angeles times has the broad strokes. Shinji Aramaki, one of the creative directors working with Microsoft on the project, is crafting a short that will detail the history of the Spartan warrior class.

Another installment from Studio4 C, "Origins," is a two-part film. The two 30-minutes segements tell "the entire 100,000 year history of the Halo universe."

"I think the core Halo fans will recognize key moments from the universe never shown in the game," he said. "They're moments where people wanted more depth. That's where this fits," O'Connor explains.

Warner Bros. will distribute Halo Legends on DVD, Blu-ray, and digitally in early 2010. Xbox Live fans can catch a preview of the anime this fall.

The first look at Halo Legends will be revealed during the Halo panel at Comic-Con on Thursday.

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