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Mattrick talks to LA Times about Halo No-Show
An article in the Los Angeles Times has some further quotes from Microsoft's Don Mattrick about the decision to leave Bungie out of the E3 press conference. He argued that Microsoft wanted to prove they had a lineup that could stand on its own without some of its biggest hitters - he pointed out that they also left out Grand Theft Auto IV, which will have some exclusive-to-Xbox content coming out this fall - and that a decision was made last week to reduce the length of the presentation from 2.5 hours to 1.5 hours. He doesn't address the Microsoft decision to stop the Wednesday release of information by Bungie - but maybe that's going to stay behind closed doors for the forseeable future. Here's hoping things get rescheduled soon! (Louis Wu 22:47:28 UTC) (permalink)
Live Streaming Halo Wars Demo
IGN's Livewire is currently streaming a Halo Wars demo from E3 - if you're interested, swing by now! Thanks, Urban Reflex. (Louis Wu 19:06:01 UTC) (permalink)
E3 Announcement Shelved, For Now
Bungie's posted a summary of what happened (well, what didn't happen) last night - it includes answers to some of the most common questions thrown around on internet message boards in the past 18 hours. Go read. Thanks, BlueNinja. (Louis Wu 18:56:56 UTC) (permalink)
KEEP IT CLEAN
One Bungie fan expressed disappointment (and hope) with true eloquence. Give it a read. It's a bright spot in an otherwise dreary morning for friends of Bungie. (Louis Wu 13:57:00 UTC) (permalink)
More on the announcement delay
Joystiq spoke to Phil Spencer, general manager of Microsoft Game Studios - Spencer answered a question about the lack of a Bungie announcement at E3 with a description of what WAS focused on (first-party games aimed for a holiday release this year). That suggests that Bungie's announcement was postponed because 1) they're no longer a first-party studio, and/or 2) their material is not ready for release this year. (Thanks, JustyB.) And MTV's Stephen Totilo spoke to Don Mattrick, Senior Vice President of the Interactive Entertainment Business - Mattrick confirmed that Bungie is, indeed, working on a Halo title (one that has NOT been announced before - this is major news by itself) and implied that the lack of a Bungie announcement this week was due to the fact that there was already enough Xbox news coming out of Microsoft. (Thanks, Avateur.) As Narcogen put so wryly over at Rampancy.net - welcome back to independence, Bungie. (That blog post is absolutely worth a read-through for any Bungie fan.) Update: Looks like kapowaz beat Avateur to the punch with the Mattrick article; I missed the timestamp on his post. (Louis Wu 13:38:47 UTC) (permalink)
Sadness Continues
A bit more on the surprise cancellation: Kotaku has a short item that ties the situation to a "high level executive". There are plenty of forum posters out there willing to speculate who that might be. (On the off chance that the Kotaku piece is pulled, here's a screenshot.) (Louis Wu 04:35:04 UTC) (permalink)
Operation Infinite Sadness
It's a sad, sad day for Bungie fans - swing by Bungie.net for full details. The short version: the announcement many have been waiting for eagerly - a new game, new Halo content, whatever it was going to be - is not going to happen tomorrow. Plans have been changed - no new date is announced. Update: we're getting a lot of mail from people who are speculating that this is a stunt (to build excitement for an announcement tomorrow), or that Bungie.net got hacked - I can confirm, after speaking to more than one Bungie spokesperson, that this is no stunt, no joke. This is real, and they're as unhappy about it as we are. (Louis Wu 02:03:06 UTC) (permalink)
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