As part of a panel at last week’s Game Developers Conference, Bungie’s Lead Writer and Cinematics Director Joseph Staten seemingly confirmed a multitude of rumors, teasing their next project by asking attendees “Wouldn’t it be great if we could make a world that was always there for you?” The company then confirmed that their next project – the first under its new partnership with Activision – was a “massively multiplayer action game”. Or at least, that was their original statement.
In the last weekly update from Bungie, claiming all remarks made in reference to the MMAG at the panel were meant as “a joke” that apparently no one in the audience got.