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Alex Seropian is known for his role in founding Bungie, the original development company which created the Halo franchise, one of the most successful game series in the world. Seropian left Bungie back in 2002, shortly after the first Halo game was released, so he’s been outside of the Halo world for quite some time. Nonetheless, Seropian has enjoyed the other titles in the Halo series and is now looking forward to Halo 4, which is being developed by 343 Industries, a development branch created by Microsoft to oversee the creation of the new game.

“I don’t think I can be anything other than hopeful that it will be great,” said Seropian. “We’ll see. Halo is one of the crown jewels in the Microsoft gaming IP, if not the crown jewel, so you would expect nothing less than for them to take the time needed and apply the resources needed to make it great. I would be pretty surprised if they whiffed it. Maybe it will bring a fresh perspective, and that’s so hard because there’s so many fans that are used to a particular thing that bringing something new is often…it’s hard to bring something new to a franchise that’s so established. I’m looking forward to it.

“I’ve been an observer for a while now. So much has gone on with the franchise. I will say the encouraging thing is that I know a lot of the folks at Microsoft working on it and they are great people. I’m very hopeful that the team there is very fantastic. They are certainly treating it with a lot of care and respect. And applying the resources you’d like to see applied to a franchise like that. I’m hopeful that it will continue to bring the high production value and cool experiences it’s known for.”

Since Microsoft and Bungie parted ways on the Halo franchise, a lot of gamers and critics have wondered whether Microsoft’s Halo division, 343 Industries, will be able to craft a game which lives up to the stellar reputations of its predecessors. Will Halo 4 be yet another amazing installment in one of the most popular video game franchises in history, or will it flop with the new development team?

One of the founding members of Bungie, Alex Seropian, is optimistic about the future of the franchise. Many of Bungie’s team members have stayed on with 343 Industries to work on the series, but Seropian is not one of them. “Halo is one of the crown jewels in the Microsoft gaming IP, if not the crown jewel. You would expect nothing less than for them to take the time needed and apply the resources needed to make it great… I would be pretty surprised if they whiffed it… I’m looking forward to it. I’m hopeful that it will continue to bring the high production value and cool experiences it’s known for.”

We haven’t heard a lot from Microsoft on the Halo front for quite some time, but we do know that the story will focus on the relationship between Master Chief and Cortana and expand on the storyline of the previous three games. Halo 4 will also mark the start of a brand new trilogy of Halo games—which means that Microsoft is very optimistic about the game as well, even if they aren’t saying much about it. We can only conclude that Microsoft wants to keep us in suspense—and that they are doing a pretty good job of it. But perhaps there will be more news about Halo 4 at the upcoming E3 conference. Stay tuned for more news on this exciting game!

Yesterday a brand new ‘leaked’ trailer for the highly anticipated Halo 4 appeared on YouTube along with a release date for November 21, 2012. Naturally the trailer stirred up a great deal of excitement among fans online, but that excitement didn’t last long—not since a Microsoft spokesperson told Jim Reilly of Game Informer, “This is actually a fake. We haven’t officially announced the release date yet but stay tuned.”

Indeed, Microsoft and 343 Industries haven’t given us a lot of information about Halo 4 since announcing that the game was under development. We do know a little bit about the plot, the timeframe and the characters, as well as the direction the game will take, but we have yet to see in-game footage, and over the past few months, almost no new information has surfaced about the game. Some of the only recent information we’ve received comes from 343 Industries, which recently described Master Chief as being “a nimble yet heavy superhero” with enhanced armor. That armor will actually physically weigh on the player; 343 Industries wants to provide a more realistic feel to the new game, as stated in a post on Halo Waypoint. “When you play Halo 4, it’s important you understand that you’re more than just a gun on the screen. To give you that feeling, we have represented that weight with player physics, without interrupting crosshair and shooting accuracy.”

Hopefully at this year’s E3 conference, Microsoft will show us some in-game footage and perhaps say something about the release date for the new game.

While we’ve been eagerly but patiently awaiting news on Halo 4, a Finnish video game magazine called Pelaaja recently made an announcement that Halo 4 will be unveiled for public display at the end of this month at the Xbox 360 Spring Showcase in San Francisco. If this news is really true, then we have a lot to be excited about, particularly since Microsoft has said so little about Halo 4 recently. If the game were to be unveiled at the expo, that would also seem to imply that there’s a really good chance that Halo 4 will be released by the end of the year—and how awesome would that be?

So far there hasn’t been any further comment from Pelaaja regarding the rumor. A twitter user recently asked Pelaaja for some indication as to where the rumor originated and whether it is really true. So far the magazine has not publicly responded to the tweet or commented anywhere else on the story which it ran.

Since this rumor is unconfirmed and we don’t even know where it originated, we can’t take it too seriously yet, but it would make a fair bit of sense. Originally we thought Microsoft might show off the game at E3 later in the year, but E3 would be full of distractions since other developers will be present. The Xbox 360 Spring Showcase is Microsoft’s proprietary event, and there won’t be any other developers there to take the spotlight off of Halo 4 and Microsoft’s other games and products. Lately we’ve seen a change in how Microsoft announces its products, and the company seems to be avoiding a lot of major expos, so perhaps there is some logical substance and foundation to this rumor after all. It’d certainly be exciting if it were true!