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FROM VARIETY: Bungie going independent after record sales

By Ben Fritz of Variety -- Video Business, 10/8/2007

Bungie Studios, the developer behind all three Halo games, shocked the industry Friday by making a deal with Microsoft to become an independent studio.

Microsoft bought Bungie in 2000 in order to make the first Halo game an exclusive for the Xbox. The three Halo games have been multimillion-unit sellers and helped raise the profile of the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360.

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