Bungie Studios
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- This article is about Bungie the company, for Bungie's office facility, see Bungie Towers. For a full history, see the History of Bungie.
"From the black depths of the primordial soup, rose a single crouton."
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[edit] The Beginning
Bungie Studios (formerly Bungie Software Products Corporation) was founded by Alex Seropian in 1991, in the blooming metropolis of Chicago, Illinois. Among the first projects Bungie created were Gnop! and Operation: Desert Storm. Jason Jones soon joined the company and Minotaur was soon completed.
After the success of Pathways Into Darkness and the Marathon series, Bungie was accepted 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.
[edit] Present Day
After being acquired by Microsoft in June of 2000, and subsequently assimilated into the Microsoft Gaming collective, Bungie has fallen under Shane Kim's iron hand of jurisdiction. Now based in Redmond, Washington, the company works exclusively on its Halo series of video games for the XBox, XBox 360, and PC. Its employees work out of a mysterious fortress that is loaded with snacks, action figures, cluttered whiteboards and unreasonably slow single-person elevators. Bungie is currently attempting to take over the world, using their 7-Step Plan for World Domination. You can see Bungie's office in the Bungie Studio Tour video.
Bungie has now been released from Microsoft and now is back to ruling with its own iron fist!
[edit] Games
Games that Bungie has developed, published or both include:
- Gnop!
- Operation: Desert Storm
- Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete
- Pathways Into Darkness
- Marathon
- Marathon 2: Durandal
- The Macintosh port of Abuse
- Marathon Infinity
- Weekend Warrior (as publisher)
- Myth: The Fallen Lords
- Myth II: Soulblighter
- Oni
- Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox/Windows/Mac)
- Halo 2 (Xbox/Windows Vista)
- Halo 3
- Halo 3: ODST
Pimps at Sea is frequently spoken of as a game, but is actually just a running April Fools' Day joke. Phoenix was a Bungie game project that was cancelled. Bungie is currently working on one final entry into the Halo series, Halo: Reach, after which it will leave the franchise in the hands of Microsoft and 343 Studios.
[edit] Trivia
- Bungie Studios' office building is sometimes referred to as Bungie Towers.
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