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This is a rumor that by now is pretty old, but nobody noticed it until now. Everything began with a post on the blog of Eric Nylund, who is the author of the Halo novels Fall of Reach and First Strike.

The message was posted on July 11, but nobody actually read it...until a few days ago. That's when thousands of gamers took notice of the tantalizing clues Nylund just came up. Which are clues about a major new franchise coming from Microsoft Game Studios.

"What am I working on next? Well, if you took all the best parts of your favorite games, and smashed them together at light speed with your favorite movies and books, you'd get something close to this. It's not announced yet, but as soon as Microsoft does, I can at least tell you the title, genre, and what particular thing makes this game goose-bump worthy. So stay tuned", he said.

Now the second rumor came out on the UK gaming site SPOnG. The site's editors claim that they found out that Bungie will be announcing a new IP at X06, its forthcoming European Xbox expo.

"Speaking to a Microsoft source close to the management of the entire Xbox 360 project today, we were told that, 'As far as things stand, Halo 3 is the last game in the series.' ... A new game from Bungie, not Halo 4, will be announced soon and pre-production has begun. Another trilogy, likely a prequel, will be announced at some point in the next 12 months", this is what we have according to SPOnG.

Still nothing can be sure because the fan site halo.bungie.org claimed to have spoken with Nylund. "Nylund's newest project has nothing whatsoever to do with Bungie. That's straight from the horse's mouth", said the site.