Microsoft Prevented Bungie From Unveiling New Halo Game at E3

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Here is the truth about what is really going on with Bungie and Microsoft at E3.

Bungie is developing a new Halo action game and since they separated from Microsoft they have licensed the Halo brand from Microsoft who is going to publish the game. 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. 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.

Keep in mind that I am talking about a possible third Halo game in the works that is separate from Microsoft and Peter Jackson's Halo : Chronicles or Ensemble Studio's Halo Wars.

However the Microsoft executive that was in charge of their show at E3 is Don Mattrick and apparently there is some possible drama going on behind their evolving relationship with the now independent Bungie. The only person above Don Mattrick in Xbox is Robbie Bach then the chain of command goes to Steve Balmer and the board of directors. Don ordered the new Bungie Halo game to be cut from the E3 briefing at the last moment and essentially gag ordered Bungie from showing the game off that week. Don didn't want a non-Microsoft studio game to overshadow all of the Microsoft Studio developed games. He then went on to make a little quip about having an E3 breifing that was not all about Halo. This is sort of like inviting someone to the prom and leaving them at home at the last minute while they can't get another date.

Source:8bitjoystick.com

 

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Bungie upset it had to cancel E3 reveal

Follow up....

Bungie boss Harold Ryan has expressed his disappointment at having to hold back revealing what the studio has been working on.

"For the last several months, we've been building toward a reveal of something exciting that Bungie is working on. We were looking forward to sharing that with our fan community during the week of E3. However, those plans were just changed by our publisher," wrote Ryan on the Bungie website.

"We realise that many of our fans are disappointed by this turn of events; members of the Bungie team share that disappointment."

He made no mention of the reveal being the Halo game Xbox 360 boss Don Mattrick talked about earlier, nor of Microsoft being the "publisher", although we can probably assume it is.

Mattrick, if you remember, said the Halo game was held back from the Microsoft E3 media briefing because the conference was already "loaded" with content.

Harold Ryan went on to promise us a full unveiling "when the right time comes".


Source: eurogamer.net