In a recent interview with Next Generation a Bungie employee, composer Marty O’Donnell, made some interesting statements.  Among them was the fact that Bungie is currently working on several games that they'll own the IP rights to. 

Here's an excerpt from the interview:

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8062&Itemid=2

"How does it feel seeing other developers working on Halo?

On my level, if I write a piece of music, that’s mine forever. If I sell it to this guy over here, now he owns it. But spiritually, creatively, it’s my music. Bungie invented Halo, that’s our baby. Microsoft owns the IP, and we at Bungie are completely aware that that’s the reality of the situation.

It’s possible that if it were completely under our control then we might be thinking about doing different things with the Halo universe than Microsoft is, but that’s a choice we all made. So that’s one of our motivations to say: “For the next IP we make, do we want somebody else to own it, or do we want to be the ones who control it?” We’re Bungie, we’re not Halo, but certainly Halo is our favourite child right now.

So what comes next?

We have incredibly talented people working on brand new games that I can’t talk about. I can say this: we’ll own the IP."

i wonder if they will be multiplat as Bungie is their own company.

Now we see if they can strike gold with something other than Halo.

It'll be Marathon 3.

i hope it aint an fps

 Commercial gold or gaming gold? Because the achieved the latter years ago with Myth 1&2. Seriously, If they made a Myth 4 I'd have no choice but to buy a 360 for it.

More games for wii confirmed;)

hum don't forget that even if they own the IP rights..; MS has still the first right for publishing... so if it's gold you can expect it to be an XB exclusive.... and I suspect Bungie to become mostly a 2nd party editor in lots of ways