George_Wrisley July 16, 2008 Features, Xbox 360 2 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

So, there has lately been a bit of madness involving Bungie, a supposed E3 announcement , their homepage looking like this , and then as PLG reported like this . And now we have Microsoft’s Don Mattrick saying in an MTV interview that Microsoft is working with Bungie on a Halo game:

In an interview shot for MTV News on Tuesday, Microsoft’s head of Xbox business Don Mattrick , confirmed to me that Bungie is indeed working on a new “Halo” game of some sort for Microsoft.

I had been asking Mattrick about the lack of “Halo” news at E3. He
said that Microsoft’s Monday press conference was already loaded with
content and so any announcements for that series weren’t needed to get
gamers excited.

I pushed him on the lack of presence for the series and asked him if we should be worried about the no-show of Ensemble Studio ’s real-time-strategy game “Halo Wars .”
Not only did Mattrick say not to worry and that announcements would be
coming, he also said that Microsoft is working with Bungie on a “Halo”
game.

I asked for clarification, wondering if Mattrick meant Bungie’s project was “Halo Wars” or the long-announced Peter Jackson “Halo” project. Neither, Mattrick said. The Bungie game is something else.

And then, not surprisingly, the topic was changed.

So, what the hell? Is this Microsoft-Bungie collaboration the game that was referred to as “Halo: ‘Blue’” in the Wal-Mart internal memo ? Just how many Halo games are currently in development anyway? Interestingly, Kotaku points out that Bungie is a “big developer” and that they could be developing more than one game at a time, i.e., the big announcement that their homepage was counting down to could have been for a different game than the Microsoft-Bungie-Halo title. Moreover, it could be a non-Halo title.

Where does this leave us? …Wondering what the hell is going on.

What do you think about all of this?

George Wrisley