You stress that we read the entire thing you just posted, yet apparently you didn't read those articles entirely through yourself. There are some errogenous or missing bits in those articles. While I believe something is amiss, the seattle post-intelligencer didn't recieve an email, it was a blog that they posted from some guy named Jacob Metcalf. The blogger says their source on this is reliable, but later confirmed the source doesn't even work for Microsoft or Bungie, but still he trusted his "source". The doors locks being changed were later to be revealed that they were updating the building to meet the handicapped access requirements, or something along those lines, the timing just happened to be around the time this rumor was started. Game Informer never confirmed anything, they just said that their source had passed them some information that was similar in someways, but stated Bungie had bought themselves back from MS. As far as I am concerned I wouldn't trust anything game informer publishes, just because they are in cahoots with Gamestop, and the crap they write is so far slanted by their fanboyism, it's like reading something published by Fox news, no spin zone, my BLAM. And to all you nintendo and sony guys who, for some reason can't get it through your thick skulls, you aren't getting Halo in any shape or form on your consoles, one Sony basically told Bungie, to go fornicate themselves back in the day, and two, the Wii can't even handle it, because it's weak sauce.