Bungie lawsuit reveals code names and possible launch schedule

Code names for major projects in Hollywood are nothing new. In reality, a lot of them end up being notorious after the fact and enter the mythology of a fandom later on. Harry Potter was Incident on 57th Street, Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was simply Genre and most famously Star Wars: Return of the Jedi was once referred to as Blue Harvest. Occasionally, these efforts even end up taking over their projects and the names meant to conceal the pre-production ends up actually becoming the production. Such was the case with Snakes on a Plane.

What’s true in Hollywood movie production can also carry on into the rapidly overlapping world of video game production and some of our favorite games also get code names early on to conceal production until the time is right for announcement.

Most of the time, however, we never really know about it because the obscuring of facts ends up being effectual, but we do occasionally find out about them. Which is exactly what happened this week when court documents surfaced from the Marty O’Donnell v Bungie, Harold Ryan case.

Project Tiger 1-4 and Comet 4 are all named in the documents and accompany what appears to be the initial launch schedule for major expansions (September 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020), which is a fact that lines up with the Taken King launch later this month.