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Halo For The Game Boy Advance A Possibility?

Posted by simoniker on from the stranger-things-have-happened dept.

etoychest writes "To be honest, I venture over to IGN.com about as often as I find myself in the all-natural food section at the local supermarket. That is, next to never. Still, occasionally some information does leak out of the site that makes you wonder if there is a reason to go back. This time, thanks to our friends over on the Penny-Arcade forums, I was made aware of a tidbit tucked away in the current IGN Pocket mailbag, as written by Craig Harris: 'Well, this was something that I've known for months about, but was literally sworn to secrecy by the people involved (just like many OTHER things I know but can't say). But since it's been mentioned in another publication, I can confirm that, yes, Halo is in the works for the GBA. That's all I can say, on risk of having my fingernails ripped off with a bottle opener.'" But are we sure they're not talking about this GBA Halo? Update: 06/12 12:05 GMT by S : There's a rather definitive official denial of this rumor over at Bungie.net.

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  1. Even if this were true? by Mike+Hawk · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who is possibly excited about playing whatever dim shadow of Halo could be crammed into a GBA?

  2. Impossible. by ajutla · · Score: -1, Troll

    There's no way Halo is coming to the Game Boy Advance . In no particular order:

    1. Halo was developed by Bungie which is owned by Microsoft. Microsoft, in case you haven't noticed, is in direct competititon with Nintendo; there's no way they're letting one of "their" games be released on one of Nintendo's platforms. Granted, Microsoft doesn't have a handheld system--and isn't working on one to my knowledge--so there's no competition there, but they're still not gonna be giving any money to the big N. Remember, it was rumored that Microsoft-owned Rare would be developing DS games, but then this was debunked also.

    2. Halo's a first-person shooter that's largely played by a bunch of twentysomething Xbox owners who enjoy playing "mature, adult" games. Most people who love Halo probably bought it because people said it was "like, totally awesome." These people bought GTA3 because you can "like, kill hookers and stuff." Note that I'm not disparaging Halo--I love the game myself--but face it, most of Halo's target audience does not own and probably will never own a Game Boy Advance.

    3. It's an FPS. How the hell do you play that with a D-pad?