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After spending the last few hours trying to piece together what happened last night when Bungie.net announced that Microsoft was not allowing them to go ahead with their much-planned and hyped announcement, it seemed likely that the game was Halo-related, due to the amount of control Microsoft had over the announcement of the game.  This next piece of news, which just hit the Internet a few minutes ago on this early Wednesday morning, most likely confirm this.

In an interview shot for MTV News on Tuesday, Microsoft’s head of Xbox business Don Mattrick, confirmed that Bungie is indeed working on a new “Halo” game of some sort for Microsoft.

I had been asking Mattrick about the lack of “Halo” news at E3. He said that Microsoft’s Monday press conference was already loaded with content and so any announcements for that series weren’t needed to get gamers excited.

I pushed him on the lack of presence for the series and asked him if we should be worried about the no-show of Ensemble Studio’s real-time-strategy game “Halo Wars.” Not only did Mattrick say not to worry, but that announcements would be coming, he also said that Microsoft is working with Bungie on a “Halo” game.

I asked for clarification, wondering if Mattrick meant Bungie’s project was “Halo Wars” or the long-announced Peter Jackson “Halo” project. Neither, Mattrick said. The Bungie game is something else.

And then, not surprisingly, the topic was changed.

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Do you think it’s true?  Is Don Mattrick just confused and out of the loop as the boss, or does he actually know what he’s talking about?  Will this new Halo be a sequel to Halo 3, or will it focus on another part of the Halo universe and not star Spartan-117?  It could also be the expansion pack (Codenamed: Halo Blue) that was rumored earlier this week.  I have a feeling we may have had some answers to these questions if Microsoft wasn’t holding Bungie’s mouth shut.  This wouldn’t be the first time a high-up executive slips up on something big concerning Halo.

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