News flash! Nathan Bitner, once the Producer and Creative Developer for Halo, today announced via the Marathon's Story page that he will be creating a new game development company. Here's a quick bite.

...Raleigh, NC - Today, I am announcing the creation of a new, privately-held software gaming company, currently under the working name Island Four . Formation of the employees in this company is at an extremely early stage, but has progressed more rapidly than expected.

We expect to open an office in either the Triangle area of North Carolina (Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Cary, Durham, and Research Triangle Park), Charlotte, NC, or Chicago, IL. The company is expected to open within eight to twelve months - soon , naturally...

Nathan states elsewhere in his E-mail that Island Four is tentative while his attorney makes the necessary checks for potential copyright and trademark infringement. Island Four was Nathan's secret alter ego in the halo community's forums while he was still a member of Bungie's Halo team some time ago. The name derives from a system used to classify different concepts for the colonization of space.