Even the L.A. Times is caught up in Bungiegate – and it's getting (some) answers. The paper spoke with Xbox senior VP Don Mattrick, who told its writers that Microsoft decided to omit the announcement of the next Halo universe game from its pre-E3 press conference ... to save time.
As the story goes, Microsoft's presser was originally planned to run two-and-a-half hours, but Mattrick wanted to get it down to under 90 minutes. For some reason, a Halo game was cut to make way for such content (what Mattrick is quoted as calling "an embarrasment of riches") as the needlessly long (and silly) live demo of You're In The Movies. We're sure it wasn't cut because it would have taken attention away from Final Fantasy XIII for 360. Oh no. Never.
When do we get to see it, then? "We felt we could do this game more justice with a more dedicated event," Mattrick said in the L.A. Times piece. Given that Bungie was ready to rock with an announcement on Tuesday, we're guessing that it would prefer ... soon.
Reader Comments (106)
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 11:46PM Mavs41 said
i now refer to microsoft as judas
Posted: Jul 18th 2008 8:49AM Edge of Blade said
Oh ya, all this Halo hate is really classy.
Game and let game, dammit
Game and let game, dammit
Posted: Jul 18th 2008 2:16PM (Unverified) said
does it matter if announcing fact a on day b rather than day c?
Posted: Jul 21st 2008 10:45AM (Unverified) said
its obvoius what it is. so stop getting mad. we already know about halo wars and halo chronicles, so all thats left is:HALO 4. its simple, really.
Posted: Jul 25th 2008 11:54PM The Blank Mage Returns said
I thought Bungie said they were taking a break from Halo for a while? Or are they just Microsoft's ... um... subservient friend?
Posted: Sep 9th 2008 2:23AM (Unverified) said
Well I wouldent consider it to be halo 4. "Mythic 2.1" Is most widly romoured to be the canceled E3 announcement. Simply put It's a multi player update also romoured to have a full map editor not just forge. None of this information is concreate and I will probably get flamed for this. So just know this is not my assumption simply forum wispers. ourse if your a big halo fan this is old news to you. If not I suggest you google it
"Mythic 2.1"
"Mythic 2.1"
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