Well, looks like whatever they had to hide from us at E3 isn’t being held back anymore. Over the last few days, Bungie has posted 2 news posts that, as is tradition for new game announcements from Bungie, make no fucking sense at all. Entitled “KEEP IT CLEAN” and “PARDON OUR DUST“, both of these seem to be some kind of UNSC logs containing some really confusing stuff.

So, what the hell does all this mean? Well, for one thing, Bungie’s got more than just some achievements and maps up their sleeves. It’s pretty obvious they’re about to either announce or release a new game. And from the sounds of it, the oft-rumored Marathon remakes might not be far off.

UPDATE: Bungie has posted a teaser on their site regarding their newest project. All we know is that it is what was rumored as the Mythic pack. It will contain 7 new maps and a completely new campaign setting that seems to be an ODST-themed one. Check out the teaser here.

[from Kotaku]

Ouch. The L.A. Times spoke with Don Mattrick, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Xbox division, and he was more than happy to explain that a new Halo game was originally going to be announced at Microsoft’s E3 press conference this past Monday, and it was cut. for a very, very terrible good reason.

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Samus has been a video gaming icon for the past 21 years, but ain’t no wax museum put up a life size model of her! Yet Halo has been out 20 minutes and its lead character gets immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds. You’d think at least Lara Croft, Solid Snake, Link, Mario or f**king Pikachu would get a wax sculpture before Master Chief. But nope. I may sound bitter and like a complete hater (I’m not Halo’s biggest fan and think the game is incredibly overrated) - but I just feel there are greater iconic gaming figures than Master Chief. It wouldn’t surprise me if Microsoft paid the Tussauds group to create the sculpture in time for the release of Halo 3. It sounds like the kinda thing they’d do. As if the Halo 3 joypads, Halo 3 special edition Xbox 360, Halo 3 Doritos, Halo 3 mountain dew, Halo 3 car, Halo 3 headset, the three versions of Halo 3 that will release and the Halo books weren’t enough.

I know I’ve probably upset some Halo stans, so I’ll just nip off to my secret underground bunker before they come out in droves and try to kill me. *runs away*

[Earth times]