Attention, Halo Nerds

Maybe you don’t think Halo Wars is local enough to talk about on FrontBurner? Wrong. Check it: This weekend, Grapevine-based GameStop is hosting Halo Wars tournaments at 1,000 stores, and Halo Wars was produced by the now-defunct Dallas-based Ensemble Studios. Some good news: Ensemble Studios lives on as Robot Entertainment, a Plano-based game development studio (45 Ensemble employees are now at Robot). One last Dallas connection: past Halo versions included a character named Avery Johnson. That last one was a stretch.