Hmm, well the countdown is complete and all has been revealed on Bungie.net. Erm, sort of…

See, rather than unveil details of the next game in the halo series - what Peter Jackson may be doing with the franchise, perhaps - we’re presented with a ‘teaser video’ that may or may not point the way forward for Halo 3. No actual in-game action of any sort is featured and Master Chief is nowhere to be seen. Instead we’re presented with images of a futuristic city that appears to be under attack from an enemy that’s arriving by metallic meteor - War of the Worlds-style - and flashed up messages urging us to ‘please remain calm’ and to ‘Prepare to drop’. All very intriguing, if not exactly enlightening.

Anyway, check it out for yourselves at Bungie.net. Just expect there to be more questions than answers…