Speculation: Bungie to debut XBLA title tomorrow

by Ross Miller { Jul 13th 2008 at 8:30PM }

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.

Tags: bungie, halo, rumor, superintendent, the-superintendent

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