Bungie Officially Splits From Microsoft.

[Gikoku Harakami]

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Originally Posted by Joystiq

Bungie has just announced that they've "reached an unprecedented and exciting agreement" that they'll "branch off" from the Microsoft Game Studios mothership and become Bungie, LLC, an independent company, starting ... today (well, technically October 1, but effective immediately)! Worried about Halo going to another, less competent developer? No need, the studio will retain a long-term publishing agreement with Microsoft Game Studios for Halo titles. Other titles? All they're saying is that they "will continue to develop with [their] primary focus on Microsoft's platforms." With Microsoft holding a minority equity interest in the company, that's not surprising.

Unsurprisingly, Microsoft is also retaining ownership of the Halo property (MGS chief Shane Kim calls it "our Halo entertainment property") as well as reserving first crack at publishing any Bungie-developed IP. We're left wondering if Marathon counts as a Halo property or a Bungie property ...

Full Article
Bungie & Microsoft Split - Gamespot.com

Well it's finally official, thankfully it doesn't mean anything bad for us gamers though, more so the opposite. As by the words of Bungie, "This... will enable us to expand both creatively and organizationally."

[Angel]

Dammit I was in the shower! I was gonna post this but you beat me to it...ah well - you do it better after all

[Dark Drakan]

Good to see Bungie expanding their horizons and good news for gamers in general.

[Orpheus Lupus]

I'm happy about this, although I also have the same question about Marathon XP

[Dark Drakan]

Herers the interview with Bungie from that article:

Interview: Bungie talks Microsoft split - CVG.com

[Frostmourne]

Originally Posted by Dark Drakan

Good to see Bungie expanding their horizons and good news for gamers in general.

I agree! Bungie is definitely growing up.

[Orpheus Lupus]

More accurate: They're returning to their old ways. Aside from Mac stuff, anyway.

And all was right with the world XP

[Dark Drakan]

Might shut the Sony fanboys up and cull the hate if Bungie release a multiformat title. As only reason people hated on Bungie was if they were Sony fanboys or flat out ignorant of games as a whole and resented Microsoft.