Bungie jumping towards next project
With Halo 2 virtually out of the way, Bungie has been dropping hints about what it might do next, and surprisingly there are no '3's anywhere.
Bungie plans to do "something different" now that Halo 2 is finished, studio manager Peter Parsons told the BBC last week, scotching suggestions that another sequel to Halo would be the Microsoft-owned developer's next project.
But despite Halo 2 having barely made it out of the door (and being more than a month away from release), Parsons isn't shy about contemplating the future. "After Halo 2 we are planning to do something different," he said. "We will do something else and we have a few ideas."
However fans of the series will be pleased to hear that it's not abandoning Halo by any stretch of the imagination. "We have several hundred years of Halo fiction laid out," Parsons tells the BBC at one point, and on the subject of a possible movie adaptation, he says "Maybe some day," adding that there's been interest, "but it is not something we are thinking about."
Of course, with Xbox 2 now very much the focus of Microsoft's plans - whether they're willing to talk about it yet or not - and considering what Halo did for the original Xbox, it's highly likely that Bungie is being prepped to deliver one of the system's launch titles.
Whatever the team is working on, we'll be sure to let you know as soon as we hear anything.