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Microsoft & Bungie Official

by Steve Gibson Jun 19, 2000 4:20am CST tags: Bungie, Halo, Microsoft
As we've been mentioning last week, Microsoft is in fact buying Bungie. The official announcement is out now and there are all kinds of interviews that you guys can read. Basically the two Chicago teams (one working on Halo)  are moving up to Washington ASAP, and the Oni team is going to finish Oni then head up there as well. Bungie is claiming that MS is giving them a bunch of freedom (Of course, would you expect to admit it even if they didnt have creative freedom?) so we'll just have to see. Here you go:

- CNet coverage of the buyout
- DailyRadar interview with Jason Jones (Thanks Rampancy.net)
- DailyRadar on the business side of things.
- BluesNews interview with Doug Zartman
- Things you should know about the buying of Bungie
- Gamespy interview with Microsoft's Ed Fries and Bungie's Alexander Seropian

Also of note is Doug Zartman makes a confirmation that Halo will be including a 1st person perspective (story), but the game will used mixed perspectives as a whole. Will Halo ever come out as a PC title now? Maybe, but not for a long ass time. Doh.

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