In the midst of their issues with current and ex-Infinity Ward team members, publisher Activision Blizzard made a major move today with their announcement that they will be the publisher for Halo creators Bungie for the next 10 years. The agreement will have the publisher release Bungie's next original game franchise which will be in the action genre but Bungie will retain full ownership of those games.
The big question: will those games be released for the PC? Bungie has been an Xbox/Xbox 360 exclusive developer for all of its Halo games under Microsoft, including this fall's Halo: Reach. Activision stated their agreement with Bungie for their new game franchise covers multiple platforms so there's a big chance that we could see Bungie's next game come to your hard drive.
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I'd like if EA would publish Bungie games instead of Activision. EA has a much more friendly atmosphere towards multiplatform games(including PC), namely BioWare's titles. Plus EA is just a right nicer company these days.Posted at 12:46PM on Apr 29th 2010 by RogueJedi86



Well, they certainly are made for each other aren't they?
I guess now Bungie will just use Activision as their scapegoat for releasing trash games now.
With Halo done (once Reach is out) maybe they could publish something pretty mindblowing, or even REMOTELY innovative or original? You know, kind of like how Halo 1 was a big deal for consoles (and, in some respects, shooters in general), and Halo 2's multiplayer was a massive leap in console online gaming? Not like the trash they've recently pumped out, the unoriginal, reskinned crap they actually charge people for (and the stupid console fanboys drool over).
But since they're signed to the most anti-innovation publisher going round, I doubt it. Let's see if they can't ruin Marathon.Posted at 10:40AM on Apr 29th 2010 by David