According to Matt Casamassina, the game has now been canned, but was "fully playable."

You are reading the headline correctly. According to Matt Casamassina, a version of XBOX classic shooter Halo was in the works for Nintendo's portable supremo, the DS.

Posting in his blog, Matt claimed that the project was the work of another publisher, and not Microsoft, before it was inevitably canned due to the "many egos involved", and other reasons, which were not stated.

"I had the opportunity to run through the beginning beach area and noted while playing that it looked like Xbox Halo except on DS, it was running fast, and the control was responsive." He continues: "the trademark Halo music even played out of the tiny speakers of Nintendo's handheld. It is really, truly a damned shame that certain publishers couldn't make this happen."

We can hardly believer what we were reading, Ladies and Gentlemen. The DS has often been criticsed by hardware and tech-know-it-alls, could this project have been cancelled due to 'too high expectations?' Let us know what you think below.