Bungie's Unnamed Title: Gen. Discussion - The weirdness continues.

[help1]

First Bungie has a counter on their website, which mysteriously ends at 12 hours away and this image comes up:

http://www.bungie.net/images/games/Reboot_homePage_04.jpg

Well, at first glance this seems disappointing. But it seems too planned. Not to mention the 7 PM posting time.

And then this surfaces:

http://1019foxfm.net/


It is like ilovebees all over again!

[tokitoki50]

Yeah. NeoGAF is going insane right now. I love this type of shit.

[Strell]

Looks exactly like the same language ilovebees had. At least, I seem to remember "module core hemmorage" or something similar.

So does this end up being Halo related?

[tokitoki50]

I don't know if this is Halo related or not. But Luke Smith (Bungee employee) said on GAF that the publisher is MS, and that they pulled the plug.

[Strell]

Bite? Evade?

Evade evade evade.

Yeah, the language is identical to ILB.

Are there conspiracy theories about how there's not capital letter T, but instead all replaced with sevens?

[Scorch]

From the source of the page:

<title>Out of the Ashes.. SOON!</title>
<meta name="generator" content="Yahoo! SiteBuilder/2.5/1.6.0_01">
<meta name="author" content="James Lace Clark">
<meta name="description" content="This is an Internet Rock Station that airs several shows and more. We are Uncensored, and play Metal, Rock, Alternative, Independant Station based out of Burlington, North Carolina.">
<meta name="keywords" content="Rock, Lace, Midnight, Shows, Fox FM, 101.9, Independant Station, Burlington, NC,">

google searches show that it is an actual legit radio station

the countdown javascript used was this (http://scripts.hashemian.com/js/countdown.js)

why would the sites be related? 101.9 FM is the broadcasting channel, FOX is the station owner..

[YodaEXE]

From the source of the page:

<title>Out of the Ashes.. SOON!</title>
<meta name="generator" content="Yahoo! SiteBuilder/2.5/1.6.0_01">
<meta name="author" content="James Lace Clark">
<meta name="description" content="This is an Internet Rock Station that airs several shows and more. We are Uncensored, and play Metal, Rock, Alternative, Independant Station based out of Burlington, North Carolina.">
<meta name="keywords" content="Rock, Lace, Midnight, Shows, Fox FM, 101.9, Independant Station, Burlington, NC,">

google searches show that it is an actual legit radio station

the countdown javascript used was this (http://scripts.hashemian.com/js/countdown.js)

why would the sites be related? 101.9 FM is the broadcasting channel, FOX is the station owner..
Maybe we need to look closer at the location? Maybe there's something important about North Carolina. Where's Bungie HQ?

[Strell]

Guitar Hero: Spartan Edition confirmed.

[tokitoki50]

I'm probably stretching, but the announcement has 7 sentences. Bungie loves sevens.

[YodaEXE]

Something else to note. If you look in the source, a lot of the class names begin with "dana_". I just did some searching back to Halo 2 release stuff and the ilovebees, and the classes on those pages ALSO had dana_. Could be important? Why would they use that if it's not Halo related?

[Strell]

They luvs them numerology. Seven is an important number mostly due (from what I understand) it's biblical implications/usages.

I haven't played Marathon but when ILB was around, I read a lot of info on past Bungie projects, and they really seemed to dig numerology.

Plus, for some reason, "techy" text always interests me. It's all kind of mysterious and foreboding, since it's like...the voice is coming from something totally cold and calculating.

[Scorch]

Maybe we need to look closer at the location? Maybe there's something important about North Carolina. Where's Bungie HQ?

It doesn't relate to Bungie. It's an online radio station. You guys are reading way too much into this.

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Blog:Another_RPG%3F_Or_just_a_hoax%3F

That was posted on July 7th, way before E3. It says the countdown ends on July 17th, the last day of E3. It doesn't anymore.

Or maybe I'm not reading enough into it. Whatever.

[KaneRobot]

I think that radio station site has been shown to be a hoax.

People are saying the notice is legit since Microsoft "doesn't need any more big announcements" since Nintendo and Sony shit the bed. That makes zero sense to me, but stranger things have happened.

Then people are saying it's not legit because there is a "7" on it. Okay.


It's not like changing a major press announcement at the last minute has never happened before - witness the HD DVD press conference getting canned just a couple days before it was supposed to happen due to unforseen events. Maybe the same thing happened here. I find it hard to believe Bungie would set up all their usual wacky website nonsense to get people excited for this game, and then suddenly post a "Oh, sorry, not happening" message in Earth-speak as part of the game. I'm guessing this is legit and we won't see anything for a while. Hope I'm wrong.

[anomynous]

I HIGHLY doubt Microsoft pulled the plug because they didn't know

[SteveMcQ]

There's a countdown...23 days to go until something....

[YodaEXE]

There's a countdown...23 days to go until something....
According to the page source, at the end of the countdown, it'll say "FinishMessage = "It is finally here!";"

[tokitoki50]

Either this is the best internet marketing ploy ever or we're seeing an unprecedented event where a publisher (MS) has publicly pulled an unveiling of a game.

It's interesting either way.

[YodaEXE]

Either this is the best internet marketing ploy ever or we're seeing an unprecedented event where a publisher (MS) has publicly pulled an unveiling of a game.

It's interesting either way.
I really can't see Microsoft having pulled it at the last minute like that, but I do realize that it's possible. I'm REALLY hoping though that it's something like the ilovebees from Halo 2.

[tokitoki50]

I really can't see Microsoft having pulled it at the last minute like that, but I do realize that it's possible. I'm REALLY hoping though that it's something like the ilovebees from Halo 2.

So am I. Although it makes sense that MS might keep a few of their cards hidden after they (arguably) had the best E3 showing of the 3 consoles.

[help1]

From the source of the page:

<title>Out of the Ashes.. SOON!</title>
<meta name="generator" content="Yahoo! SiteBuilder/2.5/1.6.0_01">
<meta name="author" content="James Lace Clark">
<meta name="description" content="This is an Internet Rock Station that airs several shows and more. We are Uncensored, and play Metal, Rock, Alternative, Independant Station based out of Burlington, North Carolina.">
<meta name="keywords" content="Rock, Lace, Midnight, Shows, Fox FM, 101.9, Independant Station, Burlington, NC,">

google searches show that it is an actual legit radio station

the countdown javascript used was this (http://scripts.hashemian.com/js/countdown.js)

why would the sites be related? 101.9 FM is the broadcasting channel, FOX is the station owner..

Does FOX make the Halo movie that was supposedly canned?

More images:

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2008/07/bungiefavsupdate.jpg

Bungie Favorites

When the countdown timer was ticking away time until the announcement the Bungie Favorites banner within Halo 3 appeared corrupted and featured the Superintendent logo. Now, the Bungie Favorites image has been reset to a normal banner.



http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2008/07/lightmapupdate.jpg


Wasn't that picture in the free pictures and themes on 7/7 day?

[help1]

OH SHIT:

http://www.ilovebees.com/

The relation is unmistakable.

[tokitoki50]

Taken from Bungie's forums. Kudos to BugSquash42.


If you look closely (or zoom in) on the left side of the Bungie homepage, there's faint text along the vertical line. It changed between the original SI page and the new page with the message.

http://www.bungie.net/images/games/Reboot_homePage_03.jpg - The original image
http://www.bungie.net/images/games/Reboot_homePage_04.jpg - the new image

The original text reads (as far as I can tell) "D347h .4 N83L <10g>" or something like that. The new text appears to be a scrambled version of the original, with some of the letters backwards.

There is also a message along the right side of both images that reads "<subliminal message 01>" similar to the one in the wallpapers.

That could be important.

[Strell]

I knew it looked familiar.

This is definitely ILB2, which means some sort of Halo announcement, in my opinion.

Since I haven't played them - what are the chances of a prequel?

[YodaEXE]

OH SHIT:

http://www.ilovebees.com/

The relation is unmistakable.
Bungie is up to something. The question is, what is it?

[YodaEXE]

Guys, check this: http://soffish.com/

That fish is on the Bungie Day Theme and I think in the picture pack.

[help1]

I knew it looked familiar.

This is definitely ILB2, which means some sort of Halo announcement, in my opinion.

Since I haven't played them - what are the chances of a prequel?

Well, the rumors were that Bungie was going to announce a Master Chief-less Halo game, which was more gritty and dark.

I don't know the complete history of Halo, but it is very well possible that the prequel is just Master Chief becoming Master Chief. I assume that the path of MC to becoming the world savior had to be gritty, and probably made him as detached as he is now.

[YodaEXE]

http://www.bungie.net/Inside/soffish/Soffish.html
http://www.soffish.com

Same website!

[YodaEXE]

And some more! Harold Ryan, the guy who put up the message, has this website in his profile on Bungie: http://www.shmoo.com/

[Wolve11]

Bungie......what are you up to now?!


I heard about ILB and everything, but never really quite got into the decoding part of it....can anyone run a short summary of what really went on at ILB.com?

[help1]

My question is how do people find all these links and hints so fast? Damn.

[YodaEXE]

My question is how do people find all these links and hints so fast? Damn.
We have nothing better to do. Or at least I don't.

[help1]

Do you guys think there is anything hidden in Cold Storage?

[tokitoki50]

I'm pretty sure the Shmoo group is just a real group of people and has nothing to do with this. google some of the members and you'll find some references to shmoo from as far back as 2006.

[yukafls]

Very interesting...:-k... but what does it mean???Softfish, the image on the map, it doesn't make sense but it gets your head thinking.:-k:-k

[YodaEXE]

I'm pretty sure the Shmoo group is just a real group of people and has nothing to do with this. google some of the members and you'll find some references to shmoo from as far back as 2006.
Yeah, I found that as well. Ah well, it was worth a shot. Gotta check everything, ya know?

[Strell]

Bungie......what are you up to now?!


I heard about ILB and everything, but never really quite got into the decoding part of it....can anyone run a short summary of what really went on at ILB.com?

Basically (this is from memory, so I'm probably wrong), there was a link to "ilovebees.com" during some movie previews....maybe they were advertising Halo 2 in movie theatres before it was released (which has been known to happen).

Anyway, you went to the site and it looked ok at first, but then crazy shit would happen - strange popups, odd messages, garbled text, screwy pictures, etc. As if the entire website was breaking down from the inside.

Then more messages would appear that would trigger audio messages with strange names, like ....um... "longgirl" and such (one of them was something-girl). After a while, everyone found all of them and you could put together a sort of overarching story - a kid taking a girl out on a date, some friends talking, etc. Think Cloverfield, actually.

At some point, a bunch of coordinates showed up on the site, all linked out to payphones. It would say an axom went hot, and would give a time. You could go to the payphone and listen to some recordings, and if you gave the correct password, it would give you more data to enter in on the website.

Ultimately - this is where I don't remember much - the website devolved further and further into chaos, as if some AI had attached to it and wrecked it. Turns out it was Melissa, aka "The Operator," which was a sentient program entity that started communicating with players.

I don't really remember what happened after that. I think it gave coordinates again at some point and you could go and get some schwag or something. Ultimately it ended with a fairly touching message from Melissa about how we - the players - made her feel alive and stuff. I think it was revealed that she had travelled back in time and crashed into the ILB server, and originally was on one of the ships the Spartans commanded.

Feel free to correct me, anyone. There's probably a wiki for this too.

[yukafls]

Do you guys think there is anything hidden in Cold Storage?


Maybe, I am going to check it out. I haven't even played it since I downloaded it.

[YodaEXE]

Do you guys think there is anything hidden in Cold Storage?
Seems unlikely but I think I'll do a walkthrough of it and see.

[SteveMcQ]

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2008/07/lightmapupdate.jpg
Someone explain this map. Is that someone's edit or was that the image that showed up somewhere on Bungie with the zoomed in box and circle of a place in Africa?

[yukafls]

Basically (this is from memory, so I'm probably wrong), there was a link to "ilovebees.com" during some movie previews....maybe they were advertising Halo 2 in movie theatres before it was released (which has been known to happen).

Anyway, you went to the site and it looked ok at first, but then crazy shit would happen - strange popups, odd messages, garbled text, screwy pictures, etc. As if the entire website was breaking down from the inside.

Then more messages would appear that would trigger audio messages with strange names, like ....um... "longgirl" and such (one of them was something-girl). After a while, everyone found all of them and you could put together a sort of overarching story - a kid taking a girl out on a date, some friends talking, etc. Think Cloverfield, actually.

At some point, a bunch of coordinates showed up on the site, all linked out to payphones. It would say an axom went hot, and would give a time. You could go to the payphone and listen to some recordings, and if you gave the correct password, it would give you more data to enter in on the website.

Ultimately - this is where I don't remember much - the website devolved further and further into chaos, as if some AI had attached to it and wrecked it. Turns out it was Melissa, aka "The Operator," which was a sentient program entity that started communicating with players.

I don't really remember what happened after that. I think it gave coordinates again at some point and you could go and get some schwag or something. Ultimately it ended with a fairly touching message from Melissa about how we - the players - made her feel alive and stuff. I think it was revealed that she had travelled back in time and crashed into the ILB server, and originally was on one of the ships the Spartans commanded.

Feel free to correct me, anyone. There's probably a wiki for this too.


Damn, thats some crazy shit.

[KaneRobot]

Strell summarized it fine, but here's a couple of things I remember:

Basically (this is from memory, so I'm probably wrong), there was a link to "ilovebees.com" during some movie previews....maybe they were advertising Halo 2 in movie theatres before it was released (which has been known to happen).

Yeah. The Halo 2 theatrical trailer - when they showed the Xbox logo at the end, for less than a second the usual "xbox.com" text scrambled underneath to change to "ilovebees.com."

At some point, a bunch of coordinates showed up on the site, all linked out to payphones. It would say an axom went hot, and would give a time. You could go to the payphone and listen to some recordings, and if you gave the correct password, it would give you more data to enter in on the website.
I think if the correct password was given the axom went hot automatically, but other than that...yeah.

It wound up like Strell said with locations revealed... a select few of them actually let people play Halo 2 a few weeks early (at movie theaters, I believe), while the majority gave out promotional stuff....t-shirts, etc. usually at large shopping centers/malls.

*Edit* - Also, people who showed up at the events were given a DVD that had all of the audio clips and extra stuff from the Ilovebees game. It was obviously put up on torrents shortly after (with Bungie's blessing since they knew most people wouldn't be able to get it). I have a copy of it around here somewhere.


Normally I wouldn't care about that kind of stuff, but it was somewhat compelling. It got to the point where I was staring at the axoms updating all morning when it began and talking to a friend on the phone about heading out to the nearest payphone that would be getting the call, which was less than 5 miles away. Laziness won out, though.

[Strell]

Oh yea. There were also a LOT of tiny meta-stories within all of the images and garbled text. One of them was this really odd fairytale type setting about a princess being trapped by her wicked stepmother. I think ultimately it paralleled the actions of what was going on in the site. I.e., Melissa was the princess, and when the princess tried to escape the castle, Melissa was sending out distress signals and crawler programs.

Really oddly compelling, actually.

[yukafls]

Here we are, it looks to be similar, maybe it is about Halo Wars??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Bees#Overview

[KaneRobot]

Well, the rumors were that Bungie was going to announce a Master Chief-less Halo game, which was more gritty and dark.

I don't know the complete history of Halo, but it is very well possible that the prequel is just Master Chief becoming Master Chief. I assume that the path of MC to becoming the world savior had to be gritty, and probably made him as detached as he is now.

God I hate to admit this, but since I read a couple of the Halo books a few years back:

He was essentially "Master Chief" since he was a little kid. He was taken from his family at age 6 (I think) and put into a secret program with a bunch of other kids. There was a big battle on Planet Reach shortly before the events of Halo and all of the Spartans were apparently killed except for MC.

I wouldn't rule out a prequel if they really do announce something today (since Halo Wars is also set pre-Halo 1, I believe). I just don't think it'll be MC-centric.

[help1]

Here we are, it looks to be similar, maybe it is about Halo Wars??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Bees#Overview

I hope not, since Bungie isn't involved with Halo Wars, and quite frankly, I have zero interest in Halo Wars.

[yukafls]

Same here, in my opinion, I think Halo 3 sucked. Halo Wars is pointless, especially cause it RTS and its not being made by Bungie. I just kinda think they are taking it a little far. But if they are doing another ilovebees kinda thing, it would be pretty cool.

[Strell]

Same here, in my opinion, I think Halo 3 sucked. Halo Wars is pointless, especially cause it RTS and its not being made by Bungie. I just kinda think they are taking it a little far. But if they are doing another ilovebees kinda thing, it would be pretty cool.

Kinda funny you say this. I seem to remember Halo starting out as an RTS.

Could be wrong on that.

[yukafls]

What I meant was like command and conquer kind of thing. That just seems kinda shitty.

[tokitoki50]

I dunno. Nobody is making any headway on this right now if it really is something viral.

[KaneRobot]

Kinda funny you say this. I seem to remember Halo starting out as an RTS.

Could be wrong on that.

You are not wrong.



As far as Halo Wars being crap - RTS games aren't my bag, but Ensemble is generally a competent developer. I don't think Halo Wars is going to be shitty for those who are into that sort of thing.

[YodaEXE]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/yodaexe/message.jpg
Is it just me, or does the text on the left say "REQUIRES YOUR COMPLETE COOPERATION"? Go to the website yourself and zoom in and see what you think.

[tokitoki50]

Kinda funny you say this. I seem to remember Halo starting out as an RTS.

Could be wrong on that.

No, you're definitely right. It was originally supposed to be on PC too, I remember reading an article on it before the xbox came out and thinking "wow, that's going to be amazing." If I remember right you were supposed to be able to go around the entire Halo and your choices would effect the game (ex. you could save some marines from the covenant prison or attack one of their supply trains or something)

[KillJoi99]

Im so fucking confused right now. I dont know what to believe right now. So the set announcement time was supposed to be at 10AM tomorrow right?

[yukafls]

I actually have an old trailer for Halo where Chiefs head is like straight up square. But anyway, Where do you see the complete cooperation message and what is the site???

[YodaEXE]

I actually have an old trailer for Halo where Chiefs head is like straight up square. But anyway, Where do you see the complete cooperation message and what is the site???
To the left of the word SYNC. It's really blurry and hard to read, but I think that's what it says. It's on Bungie.net, near where the timer used to be.

[YodaEXE]

Something else. That countdown on the http://1019foxfm.net/, ends on August 7th at 7pm PST.

[tokitoki50]

I'm seeing...

REQUIRES
YOUR COMPLETE COOPERATION
*can't read*
PERSISTENT 10 LINES (?)

[YodaEXE]

And some more. The words Princess and SPDR are mentioned on the http://1019foxfm.net/ site. Those were names of AIs in the ilovebees thing.

[YodaEXE]

I'm seeing...

REQUIRES
YOUR COMPLETE COOPERATION
*can't read*
PERSISTENT 10 LINES (?)
Glad I'm not the only one seeing it then. I wonder if it's important?

[tokitoki50]

Timer code on http://1019foxfm.net/

COUN7DOWN 7O 7HE END:
<font CLASS=TITLE_WHITE>
<DIV id="counter"></DIV>
</font><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript1.2">
var chinatime = new Date(2552,10,9,6,7,0);
</SCRIPT>
<script language="JavaScript">
TargetDate = "08/07/2008 7:17 PM";
BackColor = "Black";
ForeColor = "White";
CountActive = true;
CountStepper = -1;
LeadingZero = true;
DisplayFormat = "%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours, %%M%% Minutes, %%S%% Seconds.";
FinishMessage = "It is finally here!";
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://scripts.hashemian.com/js/countdown.js"></script>


So it ends at 8/07/08 at 7:17 PM and says "it's finally here"

[yukafls]

Something else. That countdown on the http://1019foxfm.net/, ends on August 7th at 7pm PST.

Really, of this year??? Maybe we should keep an eye on that. This is the kinda stuff I like, crazy creepy puzzles.:D:D

[YodaEXE]

Timer code on http://1019foxfm.net/



So it ends at 8/07/08 at 7:17 PM and says "it's finally here"
Hmm. So, one month after Bungie Day. Wonder if that's important?

[LeafPanda]

Goddam this is more complex than Cloverfield =P This is interesting, also there is 6 sentences in the announcement.

[zewone]

Sooo...

the announcement is canceled, right?

[yukafls]

Ok, what is Bungie Day again, the anniversary of Halo.

[YodaEXE]

Ok, what is Bungie Day again, the anniversary of Halo.
July 7th. 7/7. Bungie loves the number 7.

[yukafls]

How do you zoom in on the "Cooperation" message??

[tokitoki50]

Goddam this is more complex than Cloverfield =P This is interesting, also there is 6 sentences in the announcement.

Well there are 7 thoughts if you count the sentence with the semicolon as two separate thoughts. But like I said, I was probably grasping at straws there. Honestly I'm not sure if this is real or not, I'm torn. But since my xbox is busted and out for repairs I figure it's worth it to try and investigate regardless.

[YodaEXE]

How do you zoom in on the "Cooperation" message??
In Firefox, just hold Ctrl and scroll up with the mouse wheel. Also View->Zoom in the menu.

[dastly75]

Didn't we get confirmation from LukeMS that this is cancelled? Here's hoping something cool on August 7th is announced.

[yukafls]

Ahhh, I can read it now...yes...... I can faintly make out the cooperation. When did Halo come out??

[LeafPanda]

whats a dtd file? I was looking in the source and I found some transitional dtd file thing.

[tokitoki50]

DTD files are used in XML code. I don't know much about XML though.

[zewone]

http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=23419

[yukafls]

Hmm, Both Halo and Halo 2 were released in November....and Halo 3 in September...maybe it is a new halo game, like a prequel other that Halo Wars. All I can say is it has to be something big.

[tokitoki50]

Yeah, I saw that zew. Maybe I'm just delusional and bored but I still think there's about a 25% that it's all part of their viral marketing

[yukafls]

http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=23419

Hmmm, seems sketchy. If Bungie did the Ilovebees thing with the countdown timer, maybe they were planning on this the whole time. Like a background idea, that they were working on like behind the scenes.

[jakehoss]

sad face.

[tokitoki50]

Kotaku is posting some weird "Page K" stuff that seems to have some kind of connection. Who knows really though.

[YodaEXE]

sad face.
Oh? Why?

[YodaEXE]

Kotaku is posting some weird "Page K" stuff that seems to have some kind of connection. Who knows really though.
Link?

[tokitoki50]

http://kotaku.com/5025667/#viewcomments

[Chase]

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9164/voltroncl1.jpg

It's Voltron. Finally!




... ;)

[yukafls]

Post the Kotaku link.

[tokitoki50]

UPDATE: The Pony toy from the webcam at bungie has been replaced quickly with some monster thing. Does this mean anything?
Before
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm307/guitarplyr123/Webcam6.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm307/guitarplyr123/Webcam8.jpg

[KaneRobot]

Here's the page with the Page K posts.

http://kotaku.com/tag/page-k/

At this writing the Rock Band one is new, and obviously has nothing to do with anything even remotely related to Bungie/Halo/whatever, so I think that goofy cryptic one was just some writer being weird and trying to seem like it was part of the Bungie stuff.

[yukafls]

UPDATE: The Pony toy from the webcam at bungie has been replaced quickly with some monster thing. Does this mean anything?
Before
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm307/guitarplyr123/Webcam6.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm307/guitarplyr123/Webcam8.jpg

Oh, you don't know what that is?? Its an alien from Alien Hominid. Here is the link to the toys that you can buy
http://www.thebehemoth.com/store/

[tokitoki50]

Hmm.. Thanks for the info. That's interesting, although it doesn't help explain anything unfortunately. =P

[yukafls]

Well, its up in the air. I guess we will find out on August 6th.

[Nelo Ice]

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/07/16/microsoft-confirms-bungie-is-developing-new-halo/

so looks like bungie is developing a new halo

also from the blogger(post on gaf)

Before everyone gets too excited, I should say I've heard some people other than Mattrick use the phrase "expansion pack" so we might not be talking about a full new game. I don't know.

[Ugamer_X]

I don't want to blow anyone's mind or anything, but Tuesday has 7 letters in it.

[bardockkun]

On a Wednesday?

Possibly that long in development XBLA game Bungie has said they're working on?

[yukafls]

Ha, thats funny. Here are some interesting links. I wonder who/what the Superintendent is????


http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/13/speculation-bungie-to-debut-xbla-title-tomorrow/

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/photos/bungie-announcement-cancellation/924572/


Hey, check it . Look at the 3rd pic on the bottom row.
http://admin.bungie.net/images/News/WeeklyUpdate/BungieDay08/sevengp.gif



The same pic is in the background of the cam saying"he's watching you"
file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Patti/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-13.jpghttp://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm307/guitarplyr123/Webcam8.jpg

[zewone]

That Bungie monkey has been around for years.

[yukafls]

Check this

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=21476549&postRepeater1-p=1#21481360


Go to 4:22 in this video and I think that is the superintendent
Video-http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/07/04/bungie-net-schools-us-on-cold-storage/

[cdietschrun]

tag, fun stuff to watch/read.

[Foo228]

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/07/16/microsoft-confirms-bungie-is-developing-new-halo/

so looks like bungie is developing a new halo

also from the blogger(post on gaf)

probably the most non-rumor/specuation based thing in this thread...win! 8-)

[Wolve11]

so does this mean that if a new Halo comes out it'll be on both 360 and PS3?

[fart_bubble]

so does this mean that if a new Halo comes out it'll be on both 360 and PS3?

ummm, no. MS owns everything about Halo as it was part of the agreement for Bungie to go independent

[archibishopthedoge]

so does this mean that if a new Halo comes out it'll be on both 360 and PS3?

No. Halo is Microsoft's Mario. They own that trademark independently.

[HedgeStock]

Check this

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=21476549&postRepeater1-p=1#21481360



Also while you are at this site watch the Bungie logo at the top of the page!!! It will glitch to the symbol on the Halo map...please note you will have to wait about a min or two but keep your eye on it!

[tokitoki50]

The main page at Bungie is back to normal. If they really are pulling a viral stunt they're taking it to the extreme, although it looks like the message was legit.

The new Halo game will be cool though.

[tigerthecat]

ummm, no. MS owns everything about Halo as it was part of the agreement for Bungie to go independent
so how is bugie independent if they make halo but don't own it? wtf?

[AFStealth]

so how is bugie independent if they make halo but don't own it? wtf?

You don't know how developers and publishers work, do you? Not all, or even most developers own the games they're working on.

Also, the bigger issue is that Microsoft is still publishing Bungie games. That's why I don't get their independence claim.

[KillJoi99]

This was just put of by Bungie:

As upset and frustrated as we know folks are, we hope it's at least a small comfort that our fans know we share their disappointment. A metric ton of man hours went into getting something ready to show and it's disappointing to not be able to share it. But, the upside is that it's all stuff you'll still see further down the road.

As much as fans wanted to believe otherwise, this is in fact, the truth and not a cruel hoax or prank. E3 is winding down and there are no plans to make a surprise announcement later this week.

Top Questions we've received on this matter:

1. OMG! The announce was posted at 7! This is all part of the plan.

The news was broken to us shortly before 7 p.m. and we decided to keep with tradition to make a clean break.

2. Why leave the splash page up if it's not happening?

We left the splash page up for the folks who didn't see the message or were planning on tuning in the following morning before the news vanished into Bungie.net's ether.

3. But Harold Ryan is only a TESTER this has to be fake!

Harold was a tester, but assumed the position of President a while ago. Crazy Wiki's and their misinformation.

A couple of far lower priority side effects of us not making our announcement are that the Podcast we recorded and the E3: Livin' the Dream mockumentary Sketch and I were filming have hit some snags. The Podcast will be filed away in the "archives" and will be anachronistically released at a later date. The video experience, E3: Livin' the Dream, cannot be salvaged at this time.



Lazy Link (http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=14782)

[tokitoki50]

You don't know how developers and publishers work, do you? Not all, or even most developers own the games they're working on.

Also, the bigger issue is that Microsoft is still publishing Bungie games. That's why I don't get their independence claim.

For their freedom Bungie arranged a deal that the first few games they developed would be for MS. They've stated before that they've had good experiences developing for the 360 and would continue to as an Indie developer.

[yukafls]

Here are some threads that have to do with the Superintendent.

http://www.bungie.net/Search/default.aspx?q=IIIIlll&g=5

This one is also interesting

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=23308954&postRepeater1-p=1

[KaneRobot]

A couple of far lower priority side effects of us not making our announcement are that the Podcast we recorded and the E3: Livin' the Dream mockumentary Sketch and I were filming have hit some snags. The Podcast will be filed away in the "archives" and will be anachronistically released at a later date. The video experience, E3: Livin' the Dream, cannot be salvaged at this time.

Damn, I'd actually like to see that video get finished as-is now. A documentary with a bad ending is still a documentary, and would get just as much attention as it would have before all this, if not more.

[dastly75]

I bet a lot of people at Bungie are pissed that they put work into that video and now it can't even be salvaged.

[help1]

I think Bungie just took the opportunity to get in some viral marketing, to somehow appease the fans.