Bungie.net has the abortive results of their countdown announcing that the timer had been ticking down to an E3 announcement that they are no longer going to make (thanks nin). Xbox 360 Fanboy has several updates with a chronology of what happened, one of them leading to a Joystiq articl...

Microsoft explains Halo's no-show at E3 game conference on the Los Angeles Times where they have word from Microsoft on why Bungie's announcement was dropped from their E3 presentation (story), in spite of a countdown that teased the announcement in advance (story). According to Microsoft ...