OXM: Halo 4 in development by Gearbox

OXM also reported that there were multiple Spartans in Halo 3's campaign and story. :roll:

It's Pitchford, not pitchfork.

Highly unlikely

How will the fanboys take this news? I don't think they're going to like it. Blasphemy!!

*Believe*

Halo isn't halo without bungie I am sorry

I thought this was confirmed a long time ago.

Gearbox /did/ do the blueshift and counterstrike additions for halflife, which were generally good. They also made Hell's Highway, which is god awful. And Halo PC was covered with issues.

This is a shame. Is there really anyone here who thinks that Gearbox can possibly pick up the slack? It's not like they're going to be handed all the previous code from Bungie.

So, in all likelihood, the fourth Halo installment is going to be total garbage. That's a bummer.

Look at their website!!!
http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/index.php?p=games
and
http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/index.php?p=games&game=mystery

So can you REALLY work on a game for an unfinished console unless they have already got an emulator for the new hardware? I hadn't heard that the '720' was spec'd out that well.

Old code might just be a fair reference point if they pick something new to power the '720'...

Gearbox is going to be the new Treyach.

Gearbox screwed up Halo (PC).

Bungie would never let a numbered sequel to Halo be developed out-of-house, a port or a spin-off, but not a numbered sequel/prequel.

If Gearbox are making a Halo game it wouldn't be Halo 4, but a spin-off Halo IMO.

@ Michael Paul.
If you read Dean Takahashi's book "The Xbox 360 uncloaked" you'll see that Epic presented two early builds of Gears of War to Microsoft; one running based on the 360 having 256meg of memory, and one running based on the current 512meg memory. These weren't running on two early dev kits, they were running on PCs emulating the 360 operating system which very broadly speaking is a rehashed version of Windows.

Just hope they do a good job, so i guess that means no new Halo FPS on the 360

i don't think gear box would fuck something as big as halo 4 up (if they are really developing it that is).
I'm pretty sure they would be keeping in close contact with Bungie going over everything with them.
Plus the halo 3 campaign wasn't as good as the other 2 halos so maybe going over to gearbox would be a good thing? (hope that doesn't start any arguments)

i don't think gear box would fuck something as big as halo 4 up (if they are really developing it that is).
I'm pretty sure they would be keeping in close contact with Bungie going over everything with them.
Plus the halo 3 campaign wasn't as good as the other 2 halos so maybe going over to gearbox would be a good thing? (hope that doesn't start any arguments)

i call shinanigans

Rofl Gearbox isnt good at making halo style fps games, they should stick to tactical fps.

Oh god no, not more Halo...

it's not halo without bungie!!!

:(

LOOK EVERYONE

By 2010 the new xbox would be perfect. I mean holiday 2010 come on...

Imagine the graphics and the control scheme, dashboard touch screen, hard drive size.

A 320gb X4 $399 comes with hd-dvd for the games(since the cost of the disc will be dirt cheap, and 100gb of space on it).

Wifi a/b/g/n, with 1080p dlc, such as: Game trailers, movie, demos, tv shows, and hi-def record.

No headset, 1-month xbl, hd componet cable, wireless controller, and bundled with the 4gb Zune.

Sounds crazy but imagine the collaboration.

Oops sorry, forgot. And the X4 Elite:

$499 500gb comes with hd-dvd for the games(like i said, the cost of the disc will be dirt cheap, and 100gb of space on it).

Wifi a/b/g/n, with 1080p dlc, such as: Game trailers, movie, demos, tv shows, hi-def record, Xbox and xbox 360 bc hard copy and xblm(both are forgot 2 mention).

Wireless headset, 3-month xbl, vga cable, hdmi cable, wireless controller, ethernet cable, optical cable, and bundled with the 80gb Zune.

Campbells "Oh the possibilities".

Who agrees?

"it's not halo without bungie!!!"

-Creatively, Bungie has been riding on fumes since Halo:CE. Their physics engine is awesome, and the weapons are great... but maybe someone else can provide some new ideas because I agree with other posters, Halo 3's single-player campaign was not worth playing twice, and the brutes were underpowered, under-utilized. Halo 3 was like slo-mo.

my issue with all of this... and i havent seen anyone else complain about it yet is... the line that says "and is being worked on for release as a launch title on the next Xbox console."

OUCH! come on... if this is even remotely true why make us wait for another generation... 1 Halo game per generation is un-fucking-acceptable!

So is this confirmed or a rumor?

I'll be pissed if its true.

We don't really need another Halo. We know MC doesn't die and Cortana keeps him in stasis. I liked it better thinking he was dead and that was the end of the franchise. Now we are open to all sorts of incantations of Halo crap from other developers trying to cash in on the cash cow. Halo is not Halo without Bungie behind it. We all know Microsoft has the rights to it and their track record for new releases of the same idea (Windows anyone... Windows 3.0 was the best they ever made everything after that has been a downward spiral) has been dismal at best. personally I hope they leave the whole MC out of things if they make a new halo series. Otherwise don't touch it, just let it die already.

Well, although I really dislike Halo I would be interested in seeing gearbox make it.

As far as this rumor goes I'll find out what I can as I do have indise resources at GB.

Am I the only one here that thinks there was nothing wrong with Halo PC? I think gearbox did a fantastic job of adding new weapons/maps/vehicles to the game and they blended in very well. The 6 new multiplayer maps were brilliant IMO - the flamethrower and fuel rod were also great as was the rocket hog (bungie clearly thought this was a good idea as Halo 2 cropped up with a gauss hog).

I don't know if there should be a Halo 4 but I really think its unfair jumping on the bandwagon and saying Halo PC was crap - because it wasnt.

I'm guessing a Halo 3 port to the PC

Does it strike anyone as strange that there won't be a Halo sequel on the 360?

I love Halo's sci-fi so I'm definitely going to look into this. I just hope they polish it off nice because its expectations are going to be high.

Gearbox to Halo is Treyarch to CoD.

God help us.

Well, this article is silly because that implies that there is room for a Halo 4. Making Halo 4 is like making a new season to Cowboy Bebop. If anyone is likely however to make a good new Halo game it would be Gearbox, Halo for the PC was one of the finest ports I've played and Gearbox looks like they know the IP fairly well. I think personally that if anyone is going to revive the series it sure isn't the MP-idiots Bungie.

We know that Bungie moved out of M$'s house, and Halo is owned by M$ now. Bungie wants to do something different now. Frank O'Connor left Bungie to maintain the Halo Bible. I don't think this is that outlandish at all.

Gearbox has generally done a great job with their games. The only think I don't like in the rumor is the "720" comment, and I actually don't buy it. There's enough extra juice they could squeeze out of the 360 hardware, and I can see it making business sense for M$ not to hold it back. New systems are forecasted for 2011. Halo 4 will likely be a 2010 release, if not earlier.

Just my opinion.

Look here
http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/index.php?p=games&game=mystery

ZOMG LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Maybe this will knock Bungie off its high horse. I'm getting frustrated with Bungie and their teasing.

Please be Halo 3 on PC, not another xbox 360 game PLEASE

hey you guys are all retarded.

there is no halo 4.

It has been explicitly stated that Halo 3 was the end of the trilogy. If there is another halo themed game, it could not be Halo 4, naming it Halo 4 would be retarded. Even if it continued the storyline about teh Master Chefs.

1. Halos are no big deal anymore, deyz be all gone boss.
2. lol so's the flood
3. Remember when teh original Star Wars was released? you know, the first 3.. didn't they, you know, come out with names ala "a New Hope" and themes like that? and then when the 'new episodes' came out they were called "Star Wars: Episode X" (x meaning, lol, put number here). And then they sort of tried to retcon history by saying 'lol, it's Episode 4,5,6..' when, sure the original movies would fall in those places in the storyline, however, it's just plain retarded to change the titles of games we love.

if it is a halo theme game, it's either a port of halo 3, or it's simply a new entry related to the halo storyline, but not obviously Halo 4.. they should call them something else, give them some kind of name depicting the ensuing conflict between the Humans, Sangheili, and of course The Covenant. I would even expect continued hostility with the Sangheili, you've seen how even in Halo 3 they have been very hostile towards humans and vice versa, it appears as if the alliance was one of convenience just to eliminate the flood and the triggering of the destruction of the entire universe by the halos, but with both of these elements gone, now it's quite possible that the Sangheili and the human race have begun to fight once again, also it's possible that there may be even Sangheili and Human mixed breeds..
The trilogy is over, there will be no Halo 4, but there will be more halo themed games, of course. maybe even a platformer.. lulz..

lol ya