Bungie


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History
Bungie, Inc. (formerly Bungie LLC, Bungie Studios, and Bungie Software Products Corporation) was founded by Alex Seropian and Jason Jones in 1991, and was originally headquartered in Chicago, Illinois (Bungie is now headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, a suburb of Seattle). Among the first projects Bungie created were Gnop! and Operation: Desert Storm. With Jones in charge of the creative side of game development and Seropian taking the lead on the business side, Minotaur was soon completed.

After the success of Pathways Into Darkness and the Marathon series, Bungie was recognized as one of the leading game developers for the Macintosh system. In 1997, Bungie developed Myth: The Fallen Lords for Mac and Windows, going cross-platform for the first time.

After being acquired by Microsoft in June of 2000, and subsequently assimilated into the Microsoft Games collective, Bungie developed Halo, the flagship title for the original Xbox console. The Halo series spawned numerous sequels, follow-ups, spin-offs, and related media (such as books, short films, and graphic novels based in the Halo universe). The series made Bungie a household name among gamers and developers alike, and Bungie quickly became one of the world's most elite video game developers.

Following the launch of Halo 3, Bungie's employees purchased Bungie back from Microsoft, going independent and wholly employee-owned on the 1st of October 2007. Despite being independent from Microsoft, Bungie continued to develop Halo games, including Halo 3: ODST and, finally, Halo: Reach, the last game it would develop under the Halo franchise.

Present Day
Bungie is now hard at work on on its new, secret title (thought to be named Destiny). On April 29, 2010, Bungie announced that it would be entering into a ten-year publishing deal with Activision-Blizzard, under which Bungie retains control of the game development cycle and intellectual property while Activision publishes Bungie's major titles.

Bungie also implemented "Bungie Aerospace," a project designed to publish mobile and smaller video game titles by up-and-coming game developers, utilizing Bungie's vast resources and community.

The company has held headquarters in various suburbs of Seattle, Washington, including Redmond and Kirkland. Bungie is now headquartered in a custom-renovated multiplex movie theater in Bellevue.

Bungie is the binding force of a rich culture and a global community of fans. While Bungie's own website, Bungie.net, is the focal point of the Bungie community, numerous other sites and even entire businesses (such as Rooster Teeth) have risen and thrived out of the Bungie community.

Related Links

 * Bungiepedia on Wikia.com
 * Bungie.net, Bungie's official website
 * History of Bungie
 * Bungie on Wikipedia