You may have seen a bunch of reporting over the last couple of days, stating that the rumoured Project Tatanka, an apparent Halo battle royale spin-off being developed by Certain Affinity in partnership with 343 Industries, is apparently cancelled…according to…erm…us?
I’m going to pull a couple of extracts from some well-known video game websites – here’s Eurogamer on the topic [UPDATE: Eurogamer have kindly updated their original article to better reflect the conversation – I’ve updated the quote below]
Halo battle royale reportedly cancelled after years of work | Eurogamer.net
Speaking on the XboxEra podcast, reliable insider Shpeshal_Nick said the game, codenamed Project Tatanka, had seemingly been cancelled. [UPDATE: To clarify, Nick and fellow host Jon Clarke state they have both been contacted about the project being cancelled, independent of YouTuber ColtEastwood also saying he has heard the game is cancelled, though the pair don’t seem to know for certain.]
Here’s another, from IGN:
An unannounced Halo Battle Royale was reportedly cancelled, according to XboxEra co-founder Shpeshal_Nick.
Speaking on the XboxEra Podcast, and as reported by Eurogamer, Shpeshal_Nick said the Halo battle royale was no-longer in development. IGN has asked Microsoft for comment.
Unannounced Halo Battle Royale Reportedly Shelved – IGN
What’s hilarious to me, and certainly a big surprise to Nick, is that this was a simple conversation, on the show, where we talking about someone else’s discussion on a podcast. Here’s the show, with a timestamp:
What’s even more amusing is I even make a joke about overreactions to a rumoured game rumoured at being cancelled, and that “we don’t know – it’s just the scuttlebutt out there“.
Must be a slow news day.
What’s really depressing in all of this is that we’re discussing someone else’s discussion, and all the headlines at the other end are effectively “Nick Baker reports Tatanka cancelled.” This is factually wrong. If we had corroborated, verifiable evidence and detail on this, I think it’s pretty likely we’d do a report ourselves. We don’t, so we haven’t. There’s a reason it’s just a discussion on the podcast.
The thirst for clicks continues, but not from us.
But now…… Is it still in development??? This is just my number one game from my wishlist. BR in the Halo Universe….