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Bungie cancelled an "exciting" E3 announcement

Microsoft forces Halo reveal delay?

A statement released on Bungie's website, Bungie.net, today tells us that they have had to cancel an "exciting announcement" of a new project because of publisher pressure.

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"For the last several months, we've been building toward a reveal of something exciting that Bungie is working on. We were looking forward to sharing that with our fan community during the week of E3. However, those plans were just changed by our publisher" said Harold Ryan, Bungie's head honcho.

"We realize that many of our fans are disappointed by this turn of events; members of the Bungie team share that disappointment. When the right time comes, we look forward to sharing this exciting announcement with you. Until then, we appreciate your continued support and patience"

It doesn't take a brainbox to figure out that the publisher is probably Microsoft, and the game is probably Halo - especially with the Microsoft staff confirming that a new Halo game is in the works and that an announcement was canned from the E3 briefing because it was already "loaded".

Well, we were at the aforementioned conference and I reckon they could have squeezed in a little "Halo 4, yeah, have a look at this video". Disappointing, and arguably poorly handled. More soon then - keep it play.tm.