Halo 3: Recon expansion may be Bungie’s last major Halo project

According to Bungie’s community and PR director Brian Jarrard, Halo 3: Recon, the recently revealed standalone campaign expansion pack for Halo 3, may very well be the company’s final game to use the Halo property which it created (and is now owned by Microsoft Game Studios).

Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Jarrard explained that he believes “when [Recon] wraps up in a couple of months that will be the time when that team moves on to something else.” He expects that some members of the team will move onto something entirely new, while others will be “absorbed into one of the other projects that are already on the way.”

Jarrard also goes on to reassure Halo 3 fans that Bungie will continue to support the game with monthly matchmaking playlist updates, “Double XP Weekends” and so on. “It’s fan service for us – the audience is there, they demand it, we’re still having fun with it, so we’re just going to keep going for as long as we can,” he said. “We’ve already put a couple of map packs out, we do have more maps on the way. We actually have a Mythic map pack coming out early next year. We don’t have firm details or a date yet, but we do have one more map pack coming out, and then we do have some maps associated with the actual Recon retail release.”

Halo 3: Recon is scheduled for release Fall 2009. As for what Bungie will move onto next, details are scarce (read: non-existent) but we do know that the company is already working on two unannounced titles, one of which will be based on an all-new franchise.

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