Those of you itching for your next dose of Halo fiction, good news is headed your way. Next month Tor Books will announce the sixth book in the Halo series, The Cole Protocol, which will be hitting book stores on November 25th, just in time for the holidays. The new novel, written by Tobias Buckell, reveals the location of the Spartan Gray Team and delves deeper into conflicts brought about by the Human-Covenant War.
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Addictingames.com
Every so often we like to report on the fun side of the internet. That part of the great Web that really isn’t meant to directly help humanity or educate the mases, but is a great way to kill time between those hours you’re stuck at work.

The best part, or perhaps the worst part as far as your boss sees it, is they’re addictinggames. Once you start playing, it gets rather hard to stop. I guess that’s why they’re called addicting games. Games that addict us until more so than nicotine or caffeine.
The main site is adictinggames.com. Addictingames.com started way back in ‘02, by some person named Ira Willey, it was one of the first online Flash game site for casual games. For the next 5 years, the site grew to a point where Viacom acquired the site and ww.Addictinggames.com is now part of the MTV online network.

There’s approximately ten million visitors a month headed to adictinggames, and they’re not even the only players in the market. One of the other big players in the addictive gaming market for online flash games is www.addictinggames.co.uk.

Along with adictinggames.com, www.addictinggames.co.uk is full of time wasters like “Worlds Fastest Drummer” or “Body Ladder” just waiting for you to play.

So while we’re sure there’s better things to do with your time, is there really anything as fun as adictinggames.com?

Ryan Payton, as in Ryan Payton the former assistant producer of Metal Gear Solid 4, has signed on with Microsoft Game Studios to specifically work on future Halo games, Microsoft Game Studios said today.

“Microsoft has confirmed the addition of Ryan Payton, formerly of Kojima Productions to Microsoft Game Studios,” said Phil Spencer, in a prepared statement sent to Kotaku. “Payton joins a group of industry heavy hitters to recently arrive at Microsoft Game Studios, including Corrine Yu from Gearbox and Kenneth Scott of id Software, as well as David Wu from Pseudo Interactive and Frank O’Connor, a Bungie veteran. Microsoft Game Studios is thrilled to have such talented people working to develop new and exciting projects within the Halo universe and supporting existing projects from studios like Bungie and Ensemble.”

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