"For the last several months, we've been building toward a reveal of something exciting that Bungie is working on," said Ryan. "We were looking forward to sharing that with our fan community during the week of E3. However, those plans were just changed by our publisher."

He added, "We realize that many of our fans are disappointed by this turn of events; members of the Bungie team share that disappointment."

Though Bungie became independent last year after several years under the Microsoft umbrella, the Seattle software giant retained publishing rights on Bungie's current and future projects.