Though Bungie has struck out on their own again Microsoft isn’t going to abandon their scifi cash cow Halo. They’ve posted a job opening looking for a lead designer for a new Xbox 360 game. While there are new games in development all the time, the company has confirmed to IGN that whoever was hired would work on the internal Halo team that was formed last year to oversee new projects and support existing games.

Unfortunately as you might expect Microsoft is being relatively tight-lipped about any project particulars, but there’s all kinds of speculation including the oft-discussed Peter Jackson Halo project and the wealth of possibilities that exist. I myself would love to see a squad-based tactical RPG set in the Halo universe. There could be plans to resurrect the cancelled Halo MMO given Blizzard’s success with World of Warcraft.