Bungie is Leaving the Halo Universe
posted Saturday Jul 25, 2009 by Scott Ertz
Bungie has been the face of the Halo franchise since the beginning, and other that Halo Wars, they have been THE developer of the series. However, Microsoft technically is in charge of the series, and with 343 Industries (their new Halo studio), they have everything in place to take care of the series themselves. It is no surprise, then, that Bungie will be leaving the Halo Universe with the eventual release of Halo: Reach.
Actually, they will only be leaving the 360 realm. Senior Designer Lars Bakken said,
In terms of Bungie-produced Halo games, ODST and Reach is all you're going to get on 360.
We know what that means: either we will be seeing Master Chief on the Windows platform, or they are gearing up for a Halo 4: Something for the mysterious new machine Steve Balmer mentioned off-handedly a few weeks back.
