You may have heard EGM Editor Shane Bettenhausen mention the possibility of a “big Microsoft first-party title” that has “been in the works for a very long time” being canceled in the latest episode of the ‘1UP Yours’ podcast. This cryptic little quote has spawned quite a few rumors, but apparently a ton of people suddenly thought that the third title in the Banjo Kazooie franchise might be the game in question. This rumor was gaining quite a bit of strength when Rare decided to step in to defend everyone’s favorite bear and chicken-like thing by telling GameIndustry.biz that the game is still on track for eventual release.

What is this mystery game then? I can tell you that I know for a fact that Halo Wars is not the one, it is very doubtful that Too Human would be canned, and Fable 2? Of course not.

Not to discredit Bettenhausen’s statement, but heck, maybe this whole thing has just spawned from a statement with no merit at all. But that wouldn’t be any fun now would it?