Based on their
overt teasing, we're willing to bet Bungie is announcing a new game tomorrow. An unverified tip to Joystiq said that whatever game is announced Monday will be out this year. Assuming this isn't
Halo Recon Advanced Warfighter or Peter Jackson's
Halo project, one potential candidate for such a title with a short development time would be Xbox Live Arcade. A recent countdown
rumored to be connected to Bungie (and once counting down to tomorrow) has changed to
now end on August 7 just after 7:00 pm PT, although a WHOIS query of the site doesn't add credence to the rumored connection.
Compounding the rumor is Bungie's
mysterious fixation with "The Superintendent." Who's the superintendent? We're glad you asked. He's the icon shown above who as far back as May has been popping up on Bungie t-shirts, in their news posts and forums and in the recent Bungie Day gamerpics pack as the
unacknowledged eighth gamerpic. So are we barking up the wrong tree? We'll
find out for sure tomorrow.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mc200X @ Jul 13th 2008 8:35PM
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26483669&sid=6193720&tag=latestnews;title;0
Jonah Falcon @ Jul 13th 2008 8:47PM
Pimps vs. Ti-D-Bowl Man!
Phantom @ Jul 13th 2008 8:47PM
Hmm , since bungie is independent now , they can do whatever they want . And probably as long as this game isn't called Halo or whatever they could make whatever they want on anything they want . Now , if they were to release this on PC , PSN , AND XBLA , they could probably at least double their sales , and profits . (and maybe they could release it for PSP and Wii VC , and maybe they could make it for DS too [official homebrew anyone? , considering there's that new official R4 cart from Ninty]
Snowblind @ Jul 14th 2008 6:42AM
I pointed this out in one of the Halo posts, but again. Microsoft share equity interest with Bungie, even though they're independent now, they're still basically working for Microsoft. Anything they make will still be 360 exclusive, that's the ONLY reason they were allowed to go independent.
modeless @ Jul 13th 2008 8:59PM
Come on Oni 2!
LordKelvin @ Jul 13th 2008 9:33PM
That's exactly what I was thinking...
j.howlett @ Jul 13th 2008 9:01PM
if the talk of this game being an answer to mario and a 2d side scroller because of what shiggy said, then part of me hopes he has a 1st/3rd person shooter in the style of halo CE sans back tracking (with possible head tracking) that rocks the gaming world. but thats just how i feel about it.
KHCloud @ Jul 13th 2008 9:06PM
My guess is it's been in development the entire time Bungie was working on Halo.
netgem21 @ Jul 13th 2008 9:11PM
August 7? Interesting...
The same day that OXM UK promises that 'a must buy sequel fully revealed' in their next issue, released August 7.
ccm0628 @ Jul 13th 2008 10:21PM
The superintendent was also just above the bungie logo at the end of their latest ViDOC
BananaBoat @ Jul 13th 2008 11:20PM
It better be pimps at sea.
ElectricGypsy @ Jul 14th 2008 10:18AM
Odd things found when viewing the source for the page
http://1019foxfm.net/
I found this:
Out of the Ashes.. SOON!
and that lead to a thread that links that page to the
ilovebees.com page from the Bungie.net forums here:
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=22992704&postRepeater1-p=1#23025608
Preston @ Jul 16th 2008 4:44AM
What if the superintendent is a metaphor for Mario? (Nintendo) That's almost scary to think about.
I3lackAce @ Jul 28th 2008 6:17PM
In ElectricGypsy's first link (http://1019foxfm.net/) it talked about the person being a devil. I may be wrong, but isn't that what the Covenant grunts called Masterchief. This is just a guess and correct me if I'm wrong.