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It has emerged that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was furious to lose Mac-loving Bungie to Microsoft back when Halo was an unknown quantity. Ed Fries, the former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft, and the man central to Microsoft’s acquisition of Rare and Bungie, told sister site Develop he …

Apple boss made angry Ballmer call when Xbox bought Mac experts and Halo creators Bungie

The man at the centre of the Minecraft phenomenon has declined job offers at Valve and Bungie, opting instead to open his own independent development studio. Swedish programmer Markus Persson, whose solo effort Minecraft is apparently returning up to $350,000, is now looking to form a new start-up venture. It’s …

A unrivalled commitment to cutting costs was the key driver in Bungie’s decision to sign a ten-year deal with Activision, the publisher’s boos Bobby Kotick has claimed. Speaking to investors, Kotick outlined a number of ways that his firm keeps a close check on its balance sheets including, bizarrely, the …

As millions of gamers continue to plough millions of hours into Bungie’s Halo Reach, Microsoft has praised the staggering” achievements that the game has already celebrated. The title shot straight to the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 yesterday, selling 300k copies in the UK alone on …

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick wants the world to know his firm is embarking on an exclusive ten-year partnership with Bungie, and in typical fashion he is doing so by way of cavalier and comical sound bites. Speaking at a recent investor meeting, the CEO of the world’s biggest third-party game …

More extraordinary claims from the outspoken publishing boss

Halo studio Bungie is edging into production on new internal tech for its next ten-year Activision project, the studio has confirmed. Studio communications manager Brian Jarrard revealed in an interview with Develop the studio will not be licensing a third-party engine to develop its new game, despite Activision’s relaxed rules …

â??Independent spiritâ?? sees studio opt out of any external tech deal

The next ten years mapped out with milestones and projects pencilled in, says the studioâ??s community director