Remember the news about Bungie working on some form of action-MMO-perpetual-world-something for Activision, straight from Bungie themselves? Well, according to the company's latest Weekly Update, the whole thing was a joke.
"David Aldridge inhaled a huge hit of David Aldridge at GDC yesterday. After the childish tears, gelatinous gibs, and acrid smoke cleared, an industrious journalist noticed the final slide from David's GDC deck which apparently proclaimed that we were hiring for a "massively...multiplayer action game." That slide, according to Bungie, actually said "massively good online games", which in other words is not to be read as a MMO.
"Now, in rehearsal Aldridge was convinced that everybody got the joke. It was all in the delivery, he assured us, and he was certain it was clear that he was playfully riffing off of the recent rumors. Unfortunately, most people can't figure David out - they can't process him. And we don't expect them to. You can't process David Aldridge with a normal brain."
So the whole thing was a joke. Or this is a joke. I am not sure my brain can process all of this right now.