We don’t know what’s weirder approximately the ongoing Halo DS story: that somebody decided to cancel what would have been an obvious cash cow for everyone involved, or that IGN’s Matt Casamassina has been sitting on screens and video, and only decided to post them when he found out that folks were making fun of him on Wikipedia.

That means that keeping his promise to show us stuff “after E3″ wasn’t adequate of a motivator, but ire from anonymous Wikipedia jerks caused him to spring into action. Whatever the reason, we’re now a little sad that Halo DS is both real and dead, considering it looked like fun. Seriously, it looks like a real

Halo game. Kudos to the developers for nearly pulling that off.

The one-level demo (Zanzibar) seemed to be pretty total, with textures, and music, and sound effects, and everything. Unfortunately, Matt cannot reveal the reason that that game was cancelled, nor can he tell us who was working on that, considering he has to not tell us something. Check after the break for another video, and hit the link for increasingly vaporous Halo.

[Update: fixed the embedded video; the two videos are different now.]

Original post by JC Fletcher

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