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Well I guess I better put some pants on.
I feel like I'm gonna break this thing!
Posted by: KPaul at 9/27/2006 10:32 AM PDT
Brian and Frankie out in Barcelona at X06 for what we've hinted several times would be a Halo 3 no-show. But we also dropped a hint or two that something would be happening, and that's certainly true. By now you may have read elsewhere that two new Halo game projects have been announced the Halo Wars real time strategy game from Ensemble and the as-yet unrevealed Halo project to be made in partnership with Lord of the Rings and King Kong director, Peter Jackson. Both projects are for Xbox 360.
Deep breath now. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, who we're also working with on the Halo movie, have formed Wingnut Interactive, a video game studio that will capitalize on Peter and Fran's creative vision, while using the expertise, infrastructure and experience of Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios to get the show on the road.
It's a partnership we've been very excited about for a long time, and one that gives us great pleasure (and no small measure of relief) to announce.
Wingnut Interactive will be working closely with us to create "another chapter in the Halo universe," which is a phrase you'll be hearing a lot and of course, we're sworn to secrecy.
This raises as many questions as it answers will it be a sequel? A prequel? A side-story? We won't squeal, but we can tell you it will be a blend of gameplay and storytelling quite unlike anything the games industry has ever seen before. And Wingnut Interactive isn't stopping at Halo the newly formed gaming behemoth will also be working closely with Microsoft to introduce a brand-new gaming IP created by Wingnut themselves.
I've underlined some key stuff.
So could this secret project they discussed back then be Halo Reach?
Our new partnership with Peter Jackson and Wingnut Interactive for future Halo experiencesImplies more than one game, so this could be a game as well as Halo: Chronicles.
Joseph Staten: The man, the myth, the legend. I have the pleasure of sitting next to him and it's been an interesting experience. He's an insanely busy guy, especially these days with all of the projects that we've got our hands in. As you know, he's the main man for the Halo 3 script, he's working closely with Peter Jackson on movie stuff and his hat even holds one or two secret hats.
[Edited on 06.08.2009 8:26 AM PDT]