Tag: bungie
What’s Behind the Bungie Layoffs?
The slew of layoffs throughout the video game industry has reached Bungie, the former developer of Halo. The studio is letting go of 220 employees, which is about 17% of its workforce, while 155 others are moving to Sony Interactive Entertainment, which owns Bungie. (Bungie used to be owned by Micro...
Read MoreSony Acquiring Halo Creator and Destiny Developer Bungie For $3.6 Billion
Lyndon Hall | Jan 31, 2022 | 0
Sony has announced the developers behind Destiny and creators of Halo, Bungie, are set to join the PlayStation family. The sale is reportedly worth $3.6 billion, a sum well short of the acquisition price Microsoft used to buy Activision Blizzard. That deal stands at a massive $68.7 billion. In...
Read MoreBungie and Activision Part Ways
It’s been a bit of a rocky road for Destiny for a lot of folks, with criticisms ranging from a lack of story to repetitive gameplay haunting it. Bungie has been a beloved studio for years, after their creation of the Halo franchise, so for the first game to release in such a manner was disapp...
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