Acidote said:Break-up confirmed(in Spanish). Soon everywhere else.
The rumors took floating from week beginnings, and finally today Microsoft has confirmed them: Bungie will stop being an internal study to become a separate company again. Before reaching the estrellato, Bungie programmed several games of cult as the series Marathon (precursory of I pull ahead next to Pathways Into Darkness) and both first Myths, whose property belongs now to Take2. I pull ahead, nevertheless, was the title that catapulted it to the fame. After its presentation in 1999 under the form of a game of action in third person, Bungie was acquired by Microsoft and ordered with the creation of the game that would have to become synonymous of Xbox.
Seven years, two sequels and almost 15 million copies later, Bungie returns to its roots. According to the note of press sent by Microsoft, the separation has been friendly, and in fact the company of Gates will continue publishing the games of Bungie. This, on the other hand, will yield the property of I haul Microsoft, and next to "other partners as Peter Jackson" continues investing in their expansion to create "an interactive series". Bungie, in addition, seems that it will follow very near the giant of Redmond, since in words of Harold Ryan, training unit commander, they will fundamentally continue "developing focused titles to the platforms of Microsoft", giving to understand a relation of type second party (although that "fundamentally" leaves the half-opened door to other consoles, are domestic or portable).
Note of press next: The RELATION BETWEEN MICROSOFT And BUNGIE STUDIOS EVOLVES TOWARDS A NEW AGREEMENT The companies will continue collaborating with a new agreement for the next years Madrid, 5 of October of 2007 - Microsoft has announced today who Bungie Studios, developer of the saga "I pull ahead", will become a separate company. Microsoft will continue collaborating actively with Bungie and, as well, he will maintain a solid agreement by which Microsoft Game Studios will continue publishing games of Bungie, as much related to "I pull ahead", whose intellectual property belongs to Microsoft, as with the future projects developed by the study. The new structure became the 3 effective of October. "I haul 3 more" videojuego hoped of history, broke the records of sale in the history of the entertainment in the United States, obtaining a collection of more than 170 million dollars in his first 24 hours of sale. "From our collaboration with Bungie ` Halo' has arisen, a game that has become everything a landmark in the history of the entertainment" said to Shane Kim, Vice-president of Microsoft Game Studios. "We will continue investing in ` Halo' with Bungie and other partners like Peter Jackson, to make an interactive series inspired by the universe of ` Halo'.
We hoped that our long relation continues giving successes with titles related to ` Halo' and the new projects created by Bungie ". "Our relation with Microsoft will allow us to expand to us as much creative as as far as organization it talks about to be able to create more games of first class" has commented Harold Ryan, Training unit commander of Bungie. "We will fundamentally continue developing focused titles to the platforms of Microsoft, valued much our relation with Microsoft Game Studios and want to maintain it, through games like ` Halo' and many others more". Bungie Studios will continue in its present seat in Kirkland, Washington.
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