George_Wrisley July 19, 2008 Features, Industry, Xbox 360 3 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

As you may know, there was a bit of a snafu regarding Bungie’s big E3 announcement that was silenced at the last minute: read about it here .

Now GameRush has reported the following:

Today, details are coming in about what Bungie intended to
reveal at Microsoft’s E3 press conference. While specific information about its
upcoming Halo project remain a secret, the developer reportedly planned to show
a sixty second “knock’em down” teaser trailer, only to have it pulled at the
last minute.

“Bungie had a sixty second knock’em down teaser trailer made
that was going to unveil the game and it was going to be the close to Microsoft
media keynote at E3,” Jacob Metcalf explained. “This was going to be followed
up by Bungie doing their separate press event later on in the week on Wednesday
to show off the new game.”

“Microsoft has never really explained why they prevented
Bungie from going on with their media event on Wednesday at E3. It has to be a
new Halo game since if it was an new IP Microsoft would not have their hands on
the control of the brand and would not have had the power to silence Bungie
about it.”

Bungie informed fans that plans had been changed on Tuesday, later promising something “further down the road.”
Meanwhile, Microsoft maintains that the announcement was held back
for a “more dedicated event.”

“So soon Bungie and Microsoft will come to terms about when
and how Microsoft is going to unveil this new Bungie developed Halo game and
then show it to the public,” he said.

While I love the Halo franchise and will eagerly play
whatever is produced, this whole thing is disappointing. I’ve got to imagine that the poor folks at
Bungie are gnashing their teeth and one by one going into back stairwells to scream and
break mop handles.