*WARNING -- SPOILERS*

I think the answer to that is a pretty safe "Yes." Bear in mind, Halo 3 did $300 million in sales in its first week. The next question is, will it be called "Halo 4" and will it feature the Master Chief (and Cortana)?

Well folks, your old Dad just finished playing Halo 3 all the way through on Legendary, and my 45 year old fingers are just as nimble as they were when I played Pong for the first time in 1974. I wanted to see that Legendary ending, and I wanted to earn it the hard way.

Having seen it, I have the following comments: 1) The "Planet" that the Chief and Cortana are drifting toward is not Onyx. In fact, it is not a planet. Reports that there are lights on the surface are also false. I am convinced that the object is not the spaceship from Marathon or Durandal.

The surface detail on the "planet" looks way too much like the surface detail on every forerunner built object we have seen so far --anyone notice the circular object that looks just like similar circular objects on the outside of the Halos?

That spherical object is a forerunner construct. If you read the content from the computer terminals on the Ark and on Halo 00, you see references to "The Maginot Sphere." For you kids out there not familiar with European History, The Maginot Line was a line of impregnable fortresses built by the French on their border with Germany in the 1930's to stop Hitler. As an aside, Hitler bypassed the Maginot Line by going around it, through Belgium.

So The Maginot Sphere was a fortress where the forerunners hid from the Flood.

At the end of Halo 2, Bungie foreshadowed Halo 3 with the dialog between Cortana and the Gravemind on High Charity.

It would appear from the Legendary ending that the next Halo Adventure will feature the Master Chief and Cortana, and will begin at or in the Maginot Sphere.

Charles M