There have been lots of assumptions that Borderlands and Brothers In Arms developer Gearbox Software was hard at work on a Halo game for Microsoft. Thatâs partly based on things Gearbox has said, partly on things it didnât say.
http://lastchance.cc/352427/gearbox-hints-at-something-huge%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Microsoft has put the kibosh on that speculation, via the Halo Waypoint Twitter account today.
âFor the record, Gearbox is NOT working on a Halo title for Microsoft,â reads todayâs update, a rather to the point denial that leaves little to interpretation. The only wiggle room there is that Gearbox would be working on a Halo title for someone other than Microsoft. And that makes pretty much zero sense.
Seems like that Gearbox developed Halo speculation started when the companyâs president, Randy Pitchford, wrote of a âhugeâ project, not long after it was announced that Bungie was separating itself from Microsoft.
http://lastchance.cc/307565/bungie-split-confirmed%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
That never revealed project that may have actually been its aborted Duke Nukem game.
https://lastchance.cc/gearbox-named-as-developer-for-scrapped-duke-begins-5314491%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Gearbox certainly has a lot on its plate right now. Itâs about to launch Borderlands, is still working on Aliens: Colonial Marines for Sega and may have a War Hero franchise about to kick off. But Halo? Sure doesnât sound like it.
https://lastchance.cc/gearbox-president-says-war-hero-another-original-game-5302608%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
HaloWaypoint [Twitter]
