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My name is Mark Mezzetta and I was a beta tester for Bungie's game Oni and Take Two's game Myth 3: The Wolf Age.
This is from Brian Jarrard, when Bungie partnered with Activision in 2010:
"How long have you been working on the new IP? How has the process been so far?
The initial seeds of our next universe began to take shape shortly after the completion of Halo 3. The majority of the development team began work on Halo: Reach while a small subset created Halo 3 ODST. Meanwhile, Jason Jones (Bungie co-founder) had a small core group begin to build the foundation for our future. Work has continued at various levels ever since but only in the past year could you say that formal pre-production really began."
Also from another interview:
"We talked with Bungie in 2007, when you divested from Microsoft, and Harold Ryan told us that the new IP was in the works even then. Is the Activision project that new IP?
It is the initial kernels of it started a long time ago with Jason a core set of people. In the last two years it has grown, taken on new life and become more solidified and we have hired more people and while the vast majority of our team is still focused on reach we have been putting more resources and energy into getting that universe fleshed out. We've had tremendous progress in the last 12 months."
However, Bungie president Harold Ryan in 2007 did state that they had this IP running during Halo 3 production, and given Jason Jones wasn't mentioned in the Halo 3 Credits, perhaps this IP begun earlier than 2007
[Edited on 09.02.2011 7:03 PM PDT]