Jared Moya
July 25th, 2006, 09:14 AM
Frank O'Connor knows everything there is to know about "Halo 3," even though the game isn't coming out until 2007. It's hard for him not to, since he already has a copy of the latest version of the game on his Xbox 360.
Frank O'Connor also knows that the guy he gets coffee from at Starbucks every morning is aware of this. The Starbucks guy knows that O'Connor works at Bungie, the company that makes "Halo." "You can tell he's just itching to ask things," O'Connor told MTV News. But the Starbucks guy doesn't.
Sometimes friends come over to O'Connor's house and bring up questions about the mightiest brand of first-person shooters on home consoles. "What's a 'Halo?' " he says every time. "My wife always hits me when I say that." He doesn't tell her anything about the game either.
The people who want to know the details about the next big video game greatly outnumber the Frank O'Connors of the world. Many of these anxious gamers would — and do — exert extraordinary effort to extract precious details, but the O'Connors of gaming are paid to keep quiet. Or at least almost quiet. Secrets and teases: it's a game about games played by spokespeople and developers at nearly every video game company.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1536929/20060721/index.jhtml?headlines=true
Frank O'Connor also knows that the guy he gets coffee from at Starbucks every morning is aware of this. The Starbucks guy knows that O'Connor works at Bungie, the company that makes "Halo." "You can tell he's just itching to ask things," O'Connor told MTV News. But the Starbucks guy doesn't.
Sometimes friends come over to O'Connor's house and bring up questions about the mightiest brand of first-person shooters on home consoles. "What's a 'Halo?' " he says every time. "My wife always hits me when I say that." He doesn't tell her anything about the game either.
The people who want to know the details about the next big video game greatly outnumber the Frank O'Connors of the world. Many of these anxious gamers would — and do — exert extraordinary effort to extract precious details, but the O'Connors of gaming are paid to keep quiet. Or at least almost quiet. Secrets and teases: it's a game about games played by spokespeople and developers at nearly every video game company.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1536929/20060721/index.jhtml?headlines=true