Microsoft's parting shot from this year's press conference was very short but ever so sweet.

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It was a tiny teaser trailer for 343 Industries' next title. Don Mattrick introduced the teaser as the dawn of a new trilogy which showed the Master Chief waking from cryo-sleep up to find himself deep in yet more trouble.

There was no gameplay footage in the new trailer and there probably will not be any for a while yet as the final frame of the video promised that Halo 4 would arrive in time for the 2012 holiday season.

By Ewan Aiton