Speaking with news site ShackNews, Bungie's Frank O'Connor has spoken of the developers plans now the third installment is complete. "We're working on downloadable content for Halo 3. It'll be stuff--the kind of things people expect, the kind of schedule you can guess. Unfortunately some people are already back from their post-ship vacations and working on that."

Smaller symmetrical maps could part of Bungie's downloadable multiplayer pack in the future, O'Connor celebrating the joys of Live that make changing and expanding their game much easier post-launch. "With it was cool that we could tinker, but it wasn't as easy. Now, a lot of the stuff that was difficult for us is gone. I think it will be, if not more frequent, more predictable and smoother."

But what next? "Of course, after that we're working on the Peter Jackson project. Not much more to say about that, except that it continues on pace. Curtis Creamer and CJ Cowan were just driving a Warthog around New Zealand and one crashed into a wall [laughs]. They're built tough in real life too.

"Our next massive undertaking is the thing with Peter Jackson, but beyond that people are asking what we're going to do. Will we go back and do Myth, will we go back to Marathon? The honest answer is we don't know yet, but we're prototyping. We have some choices, and we have some cool ideas," O'Connor teased.

More as we get it.

By Luke Guttridge