This has been rumored for years as Blizzard's (aka maker of World of Warcraft) next big MMO. It's cool to see all of those leaks and conspiracy theories add up, though they don't mention Blizzard in the article, just their parent (partner?) company Activision.
Here's my favorite one:
In February 2007, an episode of 30 Rock entitled Hardball aired and in the credits it said, “Promotional Consideration Furnished by Blizzard Entertainment.” What makes this interesting is that no Blizzard products were featured. No Warcraft. No Starcraft. No Diablo. No World of Warcraft. However, Halo was featured in the show! So Blizzard was advertising for Halo in 2007? This was right before word got out that Blizzard was working on a brand new MMO and they started hiring “Science-Fiction Texture Artists.” Coincidence? Maybe.
As someone who has been on that team at Blizzard, those Halo rumors were the kind we laughed over. With the talent and experience in game design, lore and art which the company (and that team in particular) has access to, it seems silly to imagine Blizzard going out and borrowing a game universe from elsewhere to base a game on.
One particularly confusing or juicy thing about the codenames: Blizzard's rumoured MMO is internally called "Project Titan". In 2010 Ensemble+Bungie were working on a MMO also called "Project Titan", then cancelled. And Blizzard's rumored game sounds an awful lot like a Halo MMO. It's probably all just a coincidence, but it's a bizarre one.
I don't see anything adding up here. It's always been known that Bungie was working with Activision, and it's been known for a long time that Destiny was sci-fi. The idea that this is Blizzard's major product of the past few years and they'd forgot to take any credit seems weird.
It's not the same project. Bobby Kotick said a long time ago that the new Blizzard project is an original IP, and he has also talked about having two separate projects.
Here's my favorite one:
In February 2007, an episode of 30 Rock entitled Hardball aired and in the credits it said, “Promotional Consideration Furnished by Blizzard Entertainment.” What makes this interesting is that no Blizzard products were featured. No Warcraft. No Starcraft. No Diablo. No World of Warcraft. However, Halo was featured in the show! So Blizzard was advertising for Halo in 2007? This was right before word got out that Blizzard was working on a brand new MMO and they started hiring “Science-Fiction Texture Artists.” Coincidence? Maybe.
http://obsoletegamer.com/could-blizzards-next-mmo-titan-real...