Speculation that Halo 2 Anniversary is real and will soon be announced has been fuelled by a couple of Microsoft statements.

@nixel_pixel Never get tired of questions on what's coming. Just can't always answer as we need news at events. Halo 2 is a good game...



— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) February 3, 2014

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Last night, Microsoft Studios boss Phil Spencer took to Twitter to respond to a fan asking whether or not last week's rumours about the game were real or not When IGN reached out to Microsoft for further clarification on the non-committal tweet, we received the following statement: "Other than confirming that your Halo journey on Xbox One begins in 2014, we have made no announcements related to specific titles. Any report or listing to the contrary is based solely on speculation and rumor."In case you missed it last week, a supposed Microsoft insider made a number of claims about the company's plans for the coming years. Among them were rumours that Halo 2 Anniversary would be coming later this year, along with lots of other claims about release dates and reports that white, disc-less and Titanfall-themed Xbox One models are also on the way Microsoft has previously confirmed that Halo 5 is still on track for a release in 2014 , so the statement most likely refers to that. However, there's always the slight chance that the evasiveness of the response is because a Halo 2 Anniversary reveal isn't too far off.Hopefully it won't be too long before we hear for certain, one way or the other. Halo 2 Anniversary was listed on a Spanish retail site this week, available for pre-order with a release date in November; 10 years after Halo 2 originally released.

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