Doom level designer Sandy Petersen has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to explain the closure of Ensemble Studios , where he worked in the 2000s. According to Petersen, Ensemble and its in-development Halo MMO were scuttled by Xbox boss Don Mattrick to protect a short-term, profit-based bonus he was elligible to receive.

"In 2008, Ensemble Studios started planning a gigantic MMO set in the Halo universe," said Petersen. "We code-named it Titan. It was to take place tens of thousands of years ago, before the Halos were set off & destroyed all sentient life in the Galaxy."

Petersen was in charge of sketching out the setting and lore of this primeval Halo galaxy, and he said that Titan was at an advance stage in development when it was canceled, which is corroborated by prior accounts of the

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