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By Eric Stuckart
Creator, Destroyer

According to their blog, Halo creator Bungie has sold their souls to formed an “exclusive, worldwide partnership” with Activision. Owned by Microsoft until 2007, the studio is responsible for the nerd rage-athon that is collectively known as the Halo franchise.

Teabaggers rejoice, though, while Bungie may be dealing with the devil, especially after the neverending soap opera that is the Activision/Infinity Ward pissing contest, that they still “remain an independent company and will continue to own their intellectual property” and that “Activision will have exclusive, worldwide rights to publish and distribute all future Bungie games based on the new intellectual property on multiple platforms and devices.”

Basically, this means that Bungie is using their power and popularity to get the biggest bully in school to do all the dirty work for them, but only for their next big project. Despite the fact that they’ve been reportedly working with Activision for the past nine months, it still comes as a shock that they would announce this in light of Activision’s growing problems with their own development teams. Good luck to them.

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