All Halo Data Passes from Bungie to 343 Industries on March 31

Video game developer Bungie, the company that created the idea for the Halo series and was in charge of the first five core games in the series, has announced that it will be handing all data linked to the intellectual property to 343 Industries on March 31 of this year.

The transition has been taking place since the summer of 2010, and Bungie says that starting with April it will no longer be able to host any new user-generated content for the series or to update online stats.

The Bungie Pro service will also be moved to 343 Industries, although it is not clear what new form it will take, and the developers stated that they will “preserve all existing historical Halo data on Bungie.net for as long as the Internet and Bungie's data storage systems remain functional.”

At the moment 343 Industries is working on Halo 4, which is supposed to get a launch exclusively on the Xbox 360 before the end of the year.