There has been a fair amount of “Halo 4″ rumour mongering going on over the last week.  Consider this a recap.  The October issue of the Official Xbox Magazine started things off with a rumour that Gearbox is developing Halo 4 as a launch title for the next Xbox (known on the Internet as the Xbox 720).   In February of this year Randy Pitchford, big boss of Gearbox Software put an interesting snippet in a job advert.

“I’ve started a new project. It’s big. It’s, like, look-at-our-line-up-and-imagine-something-even-bigger kind of big. I’m Directing it myself. I can’t mention it publicly yet. When you find out what this is, you’ll likely agree that I can’t oversell this one.” 

Gearbox have brought Halo CE to PC, have done the Brothers in Arms series, and is currently working on Borderlands. 

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I like Halo.  Big surprise.  But not enough to ever tolerate Halo-Kart.  Now that the “Halo” brand is owned by Microsoft and Bungie is back to being its own boss, I along with many others fear for what might happen to our beloved franchise.  Thankfully, the projects currently underway do not contain the words Kart, or Party.  But with three upcoming titles already slotting into the “Halo Universe” how much more can they possibly squeeze out?  We have Halo Wars, the mysterious (perhaps only imaginary) Peter Jackson project and the next Bungie project.  Frank O’Conner (former Bungie community manager, now looking after the Halo brand at Microsoft) assured fans that they will “explore not exploit” the Halo universe.

“The Halo universe is really, really big now.” “Literally the Halo games have only covered one year; a couple of months within a year in fact.”

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