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Activision Says New Bungie Game Shows Incredible Progress

Both video game developer Bungie and publisher Activision Blizzard have been very tight lipped when it comes to the new project they are collaborating on, but fans of the company behind Halo will be happy to know that progress is being made at an incredible pace. Despite the upbeat attitude neither of the two compan...

10 February 2012
07:02 GMT

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 th...

2 February 2012
13:21 GMT

Bungie Still Has Two Big Graphics Issues to Solve for New Engine and Game

Despite advances in the graphics power of both the PC and home console the developers at Bungie, the people that took advantage of them with the long running Halo series, believe that there are still at least two big issues that need to be solved when it comes to the look of modern titles.Speaking to Gamasutra Hao Ch...

28 December 2011
05:26 GMT

Bungie Says New Multiplatform Game Engine Is a Challenge

Video game developer Bungie, which has long been associated with the very successful Halo series, is now working with publisher Activision Blizzard on a new game world and, while not yet ready to reveal its new title, one leading developer is ready to talk about the challenges of its new project.Speaking to Gamasutra...

8 November 2011
03:55 GMT

Halo Has Become Too Important for Microsoft

Ed Fries, who worked on the development of the Xbox 360 hardware and led the Microsoft Game Studios at one point, spoke to the Official Xbox Magazine in the United Kingdom about how the strong connection between the Microsoft home console and the Halo franchise threatened the series at one point.He said, “In th...

20 October 2011
05:49 GMT

Halo Series Will Never Be Boring

The leader of 343 Industries, which is now in charge of the well known Halo franchise, has said that he believes the developers will never create a boring game for it and that players will never abandon the series.Frank O'Connor, who has previously worked with Bungie on Halo, has said that gamers are smart enoug...

13 October 2011
16:31 GMT

Halo 4 Will Put 343 Industries Under Player Scrutiny

With Bungie now working with Activision Blizzard on an entire new game universe and Halo 4 slated to be launched by the end of 2012 the main executive at the team working on it has said that he expects to face much more criticism if it fails to create a memorable experience.Speaking to the Official Xbox Magazine as p...

6 October 2011
05:47 GMT

Anniversary Edition of Halo Will Show How Original Changed Gaming

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition will probably not be one of the best selling hits of the fall launch season but the developers working on the game are sure that long term fans of the franchise will appreciate the new title and the remake will show how much the original changed the gaming world.Dan Ayoub, who...

20 September 2011
05:47 GMT

Stereoscopic 3D Confirmed for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

The developers working on the remake of Halo: Combat Evolved at 343 Industries have announced that they will be including stereoscopic 3D in the re-release in order to add a new way of looking at the classic game experience for fans. Dan Ayoub, who is the executive producer working on Halo: Combat Evolved Annivers...

29 August 2011
17:51 GMT

Crimson: Steam Pirates Is First Bungie Aerospace Game

Video game developer Bungie has announced that the first game linked to its much-talked-about Aerospace initiative will be called Crimson: Steam Pirates, will tackle the real-time strategy genre and will be launched exclusively on the iPad from Apple. The developer of Crimson: Steam Pirates is Harebrained Schemes,...

24 August 2011
10:20 GMT

Bungie Enters a Dark Phase to Build Anticipation

Any fan of developer Bungie who expected to see the team quickly offer some information that they are working on will have their hopes crushed by a statement from one of the developers, who says that the team will not be talking about their project for some time, mainly in order to create a feeling of anticipation. E...

8 August 2011
18:11 GMT

The Success of Halo Is Connected to That of the Xbox 360

After the launch of Halo: Reach, the last game in the series that original developers Bungie worked on, a lot of fans of the series expected it to go dark for some time before returning under the leadership of the newly formed 343 Industries. But there are two major Halo titles now in development and at least one ...

5 August 2011
18:21 GMT

Bungie Officially Hands Halo Reigns to 343 Industries

Video game developer Bungie has posted an official announcement on their website in which they bid farewell to all the fans of the Halo franchise and express their hope that the franchise will prosper under the watchful eye of Microsoft and the development talent of 343 Industries. The message has been offered jus...

11 July 2011
09:41 GMT

Bungie Excited About Halo 1 HD Remake, New Developer Says

The upcoming Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary edition has gotten the original developer of the series, Bungie, very excited, at least according to the new studio that shepherds the franchise, 343 Industries.Microsoft's Halo series is set to continue with a brand new trilogy next year, as the company confirmed Ha...

16 June 2011
05:30 GMT

Bungie Mobile Indicates New App Focus for Halo Creator

Video game developer Bungie has released a community-focused mobile application called simply Bungie Mobile and says that this is just the first move in a wider new focus for the company, which aims to make it easier for players to connect with its titles when they are on the move.Bungie Mobile is designed to allow g...

16 June 2011
03:31 GMT

Bungie Announces Big News for July 7

Video game developer Bungie has announced that it will be making an important announcement regarding its future games project on July 7, which has been dubbed Bungie Day by fans of the company. Eric Osborne, who is one of the developers at Bungie, has posted on the official company blog that, “A significant ...

30 May 2011
18:51 GMT

Bungie Shell Company Connected to Destiny MMO Rumor

Video game developer Bungie has been revealed by a fan site to be actually connected through a company registered by its executives to the Destiny project that was rumored to be in development towards the beginning of the year. Halo.Gungie.Org has shown that two senior executives at Bungie, Harold Ryan, who is the p...

20 May 2011
04:44 GMT

Bungie Aerospace Corporation Trademarks Crimson Name

The Bungie Aerospace Corporation, a company which is headed by the same team of executives that led the video game developer, has filled a trademark for the name “Crimson” on May 4 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The application shows Crimson listed as a “computer game software ...

12 May 2011
19:01 GMT

Bungie Trademarks Aerospace Corporation in Washington and Delaware

Video game developer Bungie has moved to trademark the name and the logo of something called the Bungie Aerospace Corporation, filling both in the state of Delaware and with the Washington Secretary of State. The governing persons for the new business are Harold Ryan, who is the actual president of Bungie and will...

11 May 2011
18:41 GMT

Bungie Asks Players to Sign Up for Beta Test Positions

Video game developer Bungie has re-opened registrations for those who are interested in taking part in beta testing for the projects that the company has under development at the moment, and all those interested can go to the official Bungie website and sign up. The company first offered beta testing spots late in...

21 April 2011
05:51 GMT

Bungie Aims to Get Blizzard Like Reputation

Video games developer Bungie is no longer working with Microsoft on the well-known Halo brand, but the company believes that its new relationship with Activision Blizzard will allow its games to become even better known and increase the reputation of the company. Speaking to IndustryGamers, Marty O'Donnell has ...

14 April 2011
17:21 GMT

Halo Composer Talks About the Experience of Leaving Master Chief

The leading composer working on the Halo series when it was under the strong development hand of Bungie has said that it is both liberating and a little frightening to let go of Master Chief as a character and see the series being under the development of new leadership. Speaking about moving on from the Halo seri...

13 April 2011
09:19 GMT

Halo Developer Praises Relationship with Activision

Bungie, the developer of the critically acclaimed Halo franchise, is quite happy with its recent 10-year contract with Activision, saying that the large publisher, despite its imposing reputation, is very hands-off in the whole affair. Bungie had splintered from Microsoft a few years ago, after creating for it the...

29 March 2011
15:51 GMT

Next Halo Game Will Have Dramatic Innovations and Small Tweaks

Frank O'Connor, the head of Microsoft's 343 Industries, the new studio in charge with developing the Halo franchise, has promised that the new game in the series will contain dramatic innovations but also small tweaks on top of the tried and true formula originally developed by Bungie. Microsoft is curre...

24 March 2011
05:35 GMT

A Battlefield Powered MMO FPS Is Not Yet Possible

With the developers at Bungie neither confirming nor outright denying that they are making an MMO FPS as their next project, the developers at DICE, who are currently working on Battlefield 3, have said that creating a massive multiplayer game using first-person shooter mechanics is not a project that they see as fea...

7 March 2011
07:01 GMT

Bungie Says MMO FPS Confirmation Was a Joke

Video-game developer Bungie has said that the widely reported announcement made at the Game Developers Conference that it was working on a massive multiplayer online game was not a confirmation on the part of the company but only a joke that played on recent rumors about the work the company was doing. Rumors abou...

7 March 2011
05:39 GMT

A Gamer's Week: March 6

This week, two first-person shooters grabbed most of the space in the Gaming section of Softpedia, with reviews delivered for both Bulletstorm, the more experimental game from People Can Fly and Electronic Arts, and for Killzone 3, the more traditional shooter from Guerrilla Games and Sony.We also have a set of Gamer...

6 March 2011
06:01 GMT

Bungie Confirms New Game Is an MMO

During a panel session that took place at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, a representative from developer Bungie has confirmed that the new video game the company is working on is indeed a “massively multiplayer action game.” David Aldridge is a lead network engineer at Bungie and has ...

4 March 2011
05:48 GMT

Bungie Is Working on Destiny MMO FPS

A source with knowledge of the game industry has said that developer Bungie, best known for the work it has done on the Halo franchise for Microsoft, is now working on a science-fiction-oriented massive multiplayer online first-person shooter that will be named Destiny. It seems that Destiny is codenamed Tiger at ...

17 February 2011
06:30 GMT

Bungie's New Project Is Exciting, Won't Arrive This Year

Bungie's new video game, set to be published by Activision is very exciting, according to the company, but won't arrive this year. During a recent investor's call, Activision decided to share a few details about Bungie's project, but still played coy and secretive. "This is an opportunity wh...

11 February 2011
15:51 GMT

343 Industries Is Looking for Halo Mission Designer

343 Industries, the development studio that Bungie has formed specifically to deal with the Halo franchise after Bungie has left the development process, has put out a job listing that mentions that it is recruiting a Missions Designer to work on an unnamed new project.The position entails working with the lead desig...

31 January 2011
16:41 GMT

Microsoft Talks About the Secret for Halo Success

Microsoft has not yet revealed the future plans it has for one of its biggest franchise, Halo, following the launch of Bungie's last title in the series, Reach, but recent statement from a Microsoft executive suggests that the company is aiming to deliver a similarly wide ranging experience that aims to satisfy ...

20 January 2011
14:51 GMT

Osiris, Dead Orbit, New Monarchy and Seven Seraphs Could Be New Bungie Games

Developer Bungie has filled trademarks for four new names that could be linked to its new video game development project, although no official information has been offered on it since the developers entered into a ten-year exclusive agreement with publisher Activision Blizzard. The four new names registered in 201...

12 January 2011
18:31 GMT

GOTY 2010: Best First Person Shooter – Halo: Reach

I admit that there's some nostalgia already at work in choosing Halo: Reach as the Best First Person Shooter of the Year, but that's just a small percentage of what makes the latest Spartan-powered adventure a great game. Both ODST and Halo 3 were more of the same and, while they had the universe and the...

23 December 2010
18:31 GMT

Space Sim Section Cut from Halo: Reach Multiplayer

One of the leading developers working on Halo: Reach at Bungie has said that, early in the development of the multiplayer side of the first person shooter, the team was working on creating a player versus players version of the space battle game seen in the mission “Long Night of Solace,” which comes abou...

2 December 2010
06:02 GMT

Noble Map Pack Introduces Seven New Achievements to Halo: Reach

Microsoft, as the publisher, and Bungie, as the developer, have introduced seven new Achievements to Halo: Reach and added another 250 Gamerpoints to Halo: Reach with the launch of the new Noble Map Pack.The new downloadable content pack can be downloaded from Xbox Live and the price is set at 800 Microsoft...

1 December 2010
04:10 GMT

Bungie Is Looking for Testers

Bungie, the developer of the Halo franchise which is now working with publisher Activision Blizzard, has announced that it is recruiting alpha and beta testers from the community to work with the company on the creation of its new gaming project.The announcement from Bungie says that all fans of its earlier work are ...

23 November 2010
15:01 GMT

Microsoft Wants To Breathe Fresh Life into Halo Franchise With Job Listing

Seeing as how Halo: Reach, the newest installment in the first person shooter, has once again proved to be one of the most profitable games released this year, Microsoft is looking to really take the franchise to new directions with its newly-established 343 Industries studio.In order to do so, the company has just p...

18 November 2010
17:21 GMT

Analyst: Next Bungie Project Could Sell 20 Million Copies

We don't know much about the project that Bungie is currently working on together with publisher Activision Blizzard but one analyst, Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan Securities, has made the bold prediction that the game, whatever it is, will manage to sell close to 20 million units when it is released, possib...

10 November 2010
05:01 GMT

Halo: Reach Rank Cap Removed by Bungie

Bungie has just removed the rank cap in its newest and most successful game to date, Halo: Reach, after gamers plowed their way through more than 117 million Daily and Weekly challenges.Halo: Reach was launched back in September and even though it was exclusive to the Xbox 360, sold a lot of copies around the world a...

4 November 2010
05:10 GMT

Blizzard Could Offer Bungie MMO Advice

Blizzard, the creators of World of Warcraft, the most important subscriber based MMO in the world of gaming, have said that they are ready to impart some of their wisdom to Bungie, the creators of the well known Halo game universe, who are now set to work on a new intellectual property with publisher Activision.Bungi...

26 October 2010
05:04 GMT

Halo: Reach Level Cap Will Be Increased

Developers Bungie have unveiled a host of statistics linked to their first person shooter Halo: Reach adding that they are planning to release an update for the game which will increase the level cap for player and will allow them to access new armor with which they can outfit their Spartan II.An official posting on ...

20 October 2010
04:28 GMT

Halo Success Linked to Master Chief as Power Projection

A senior developer working at Bungie, which will move on from the Halo series to work with Activision Blizzard, has stated that the success of their first person shooter series is linked to how the stories were created starting with characters that can make an impact, like Master Chief and his companion Cortana.Joe ...

11 October 2010
18:41 GMT

Halo: Reach Campaign Matchmaking Hits October 19

Halo: Reach, currently one of the biggest titles to hit this fall, appearing exclusively for the Xbox 360, will finally get its online campaign matchmaking feature on October 19, according to an announcement from its development studio Bungie.Halo: Reach has definitely sold a lot of copies all over the world, and is ...

11 October 2010
04:08 GMT

First Halo: Reach Update Released, Campaign Matchmaking Coming Soon

Halo: Reach, one of the biggest titles set to be released this fall, has just received its first update from its development studio, Bungie, which is now available for download on Xbox Live.Halo: Reach marks the end of the Bungie's involvement in the franchise, but this doesn't mean that the studio won'...

7 October 2010
17:21 GMT

Halo MMO in Development, Bungie Suggests

A Bungie executive has suggested that fans of the Halo series might at some point get to play a MMO or another kind of persistent world based around the game universe, just as the development team itself is preparing to create a new world for its next game project..Answering a question about game worlds at the GDC On...

7 October 2010
04:42 GMT

15,000 Halo: Reach Cheaters Get Their Credits Reset by Bungie

Halo: Reach, this year's biggest Xbox 360 exclusive, has broken quite a lot of records and, according to Xbox Live charts, is quickly becoming the most played online title, which, sadly, means that a lot of people tried to cheat the system and get special things.If you've been playing fair and square though...

4 October 2010
04:45 GMT

Halo: Reach Review

“Remember Reach”, says the tagline for the promotional campaign for Halo: Reach. The imperative statement was pretty hard to follow before the launch of the game considering the rather limited knowledge of what happened on Reach that the gaming community had. Sure, we knew it was a significant step in the...

29 September 2010
08:13 GMT

Halo: Reach DLC Already Out at Bungie

Screenshots posted on the official Bungie blog suggest that their blockbuster Halo: Reach might be getting downloadable content in the very near future, with copies of the game installed at machines at the developer showing more Achievements and Gamerscore points than those available to gamers who have the retail box...

27 September 2010
05:37 GMT

Halo: Reach – Architecture for Spartans

Halo: Reach is the newest first person shooter from developer Bungie and publisher Microsoft, telling the story of how humanity lost the planet of Reach to the forces of the Covenant and how the actions of a few Spartans influenced the events of the first two games in the series.Despite working with essentially the s...

24 September 2010
18:41 GMT


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