Bungie’s Announcement Delayed by Microsoft
From: Harold Ryan
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:00PM
Subject: E3 Announce
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 out fan community during the week of E3. However, those plans were just changed by our publisher.
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.
Harold Ryan
President
Bungie LLC
Is now:
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It was discovered earlier today that more Superintendent wallpapers exist. Here are the ones that are currently known about:
- PLEASE REMAIN CALM
- HITCHHIKERS MAY BE ESCAPING INMATES
- YELLOW MEANS YIELD
- OBEY POSTED LIMITS
- TAKE IT TO MAKE IT
- NO PUBLIC ACCESS
- MIND THE GAP
Bungie community lead Luke Smith has confirmed the postponement is legitimate. “We already are deeply disappointed with how things unfolded to this point without getting our fans to the intended payoff.” When forum goers at NeoGAF assumed it was a joke Smith responded with the above comment and added, “Nope. Not our style.”
Luke Smith replied to a comment made in NeoGAF confirming the publisher in question is in fact Microsoft. Responding to the comment, “Bungie is the one who made this great little hype machine. And–although this will just add to the fire–they never say it’s Microsoft.” Smith replied, “Our publisher is Microsoft.”
Luke Smith has commented to Joystiq: “We still have an exclusive publishing agreement with Microsoft, as we confirmed when we announced the split last year. That arrangement has not changed.” Also, all teased images of an announcement have now been removed from Bungie.net and within Halo 3.
Light Map Changes
Originally featuring a circle of lights around the city of Mombasa, Kenya (a place well known to the Halo Universe) the Superintendent shaped lights have now vanished from Bungie.net.
Check out this odd, anonymous news posting over at Kotaku.com…posted at 9:07pm. I think it relates to the following link about Phil Spencer.
Update: 2am - Microsoft’s Phil Spencer on Bungie’s E3 teaser, absence
As you will see in the comments to that news posting above, I currently believe that Phil Spencer, the newly appointed General Manager of Microsoft Game Studios, is the person to blame for this delay.
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Hey Microsoft, I wonder what the best way to make Bungie go multi-platform is? You don’t have to answer that, cause you’re already in the process of doing it. Idiots.