E3 2008: Bungie is Working on a New Halo
By Chris on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 3:18 PM PST In Bungie, E3 2008, Features, Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Games, Halo, Microsoft, Microsoft
Don’t color me surprised — but you can color me as pleasantly surprised. Wait.
Damnit.
You may have noticed the lack of anything Halo-related at Microsoft’s press conference earlier this week, as well as Bungie’s sudden backtrack on their website regarding an announcement they were planning to make at E3. The message above was posted on Bungie.net’s splash page by president Harold Ryan, apologizing for the lack of any announcement. Combine that with the unusual wording — “our publisher” and not “Microsoft” like you’d expect — and it was unclear what was going on.
But in an interview with MTV, Stephen Totilo managed to get word out of Microsoft exec Don Mattrick that Bungie is at work on a new Halo game separate from both Halo Wars and Peter Jackson’s Halo project.
The explanation Mattrick gave for why the game was absent from the press conference was that Microsoft felt they already had more than enough to show, and a new Halo game wasn’t needed.
Maybe, but as someone who remains a Halo fanboy at heart, it would have made me a very happy camper to see what Bungie is working on.
What a surprise
Same old, same old most likely.. I won’t be looking forward to it.. other than Halo 3’s single player, I was fairly disappointed in the repetitiveness and unbearably high level of Halo 2 similarity.