Microsoft Corp.’s full-length, Hollywood-style movie based on the next “Halo” video game will skip the big screen, streaming instead on YouTube before heading to store shelves as a DVD.
The Redmond-based maker of the Xbox console, promoting the November release of “Halo 4,” has taken the unusual step of creating its own 90-minute movie, at a cost of almost $10 million.
The film airs starting today in five 15-minute segments on the YouTube channel Machinima Prime, leading up to the game’s debut on Nov. 6.
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