Founded by Jason Jones and Alex Seropian in May 1991 in Chicago, Illinois. Bungie is an American video game developer located in Bellevue, Washington.
Jason Jones is a video game developer who began programming on Apple computers in high school. One of his early games he assembled was Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete. It was a multiplayer game he worked in partnership with Seropian to publish while attending the University of Chicago.
Eventually Marathon, Myth, Oni and Halo: Combat Evolved came along. Marathon did well but paled in comparison to the success of Halo.
Microsoft acquired Bungie in 2000 to develop the Halo games for their Xbox console.
On October 5, 2007, Bungie become an independent company, Bungie LLC and Microsoft still had ownership of the Halo IP.
More recently Bungie has made a deal with the Call of Duty developer Activision. The partnership is a ten year long project called Destiny.
This is interesting. I never actually dove this deep into Bungie before. It has been eye opening.
I’m still salty about Bungie dropping Halo, but I’d never really gotten into the specifics of the company. I didn’t know that Microsoft ever actually acquired Bungie. Bungie has defiantly been a successful development company. Thanks for sharing!