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Halo Reach Not the Last Halo from Bungie?

Posted August 26, 2009 by James Brightman

Last month Halo developer Bungie commented that Halo Reach would be the last Halo title to come from the studio. Bungie senior designer Lars Bakken noted that "in terms of Bungie-produced Halo games, ODST and then Reach is probably all you're going to get." Now, however, Bungie seems to be backtracking on that statement.

Speaking to Videogamer, community and pr director Brian Jarrard commented, "The clarification is we just don't know at this point. I'm not really able to speculate on what we're going to do after Reach. I wouldn't confirm or deny at this point. We're really excited to get Reach out the door. Beyond that, we're not at liberty to say right now what's next. I think there's a lot of work just to get Reach done between now and next fall. At that point anything's possible. We're going to keep looking at making the games we want to make. Maybe that's Halo. Maybe it's not. We'll have to wait and see."

One of the main reasons Bungie reworked their deal with Microsoft to become independent is to have the creative freedom to work on whatever they want. Most of the studio probably wants to work on some new IP, but as Jarrard says, "anything's possible," especially if Microsoft throws a boatload of money Bungie's way.

James Brightman has been covering the games industry since 2003 and has been an avid gamer ever since the days of Atari and Intellivision. He was previously the EIC of GameDaily Biz.