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Bungie signs exclusive 10 year pact with Activision

article published on 29 April, 2010

Bungie, the developer behind the Halo franchise has announced they have signed an exclusive 10 year pact with Activision that will bring the developer's "next big action game universe to market." For the next decade Activision will have exclusive, worldwide rights to publish and distribute future Bungie games "based on the new intellectual property on multiple platforms and devices." ... [ read the full article ]

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Oner
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_ 		29. April 2010 @ 17:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Additionally for clarification this does not mean Halo will go Multiplatform. Halo is a MS owned IP and the studio 343 is going to handle any future Halo franchise titles AFTER Halo: Reach.

This is a brand new "action title" that Activision has publishing right to for the next 10 years. At first it was rumored to be an older FPS title that Bungie recently re-registered called "Marathon" (of similarity to Halo i.e. "Space based FPS") but it has been confirmed as a TOTALLY new IP and not a rehash/reboot of something previously done.

This also does not mean that this will be the only title in development by Bungie nor does it mean they cannot still make console exclusives...but at the same token this means Bungie can ALSO make a Wii OR PS3 exclusive title SEPARATELY from this multiplatform game they have in contract with Activision.

This is by far the biggest news of 2010 and way worse than any other loss of similar exclusivity by competitors OR the growing number of losses of 360 game devs...E3 2010 is looking to be nothing short of full of surprises!
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slickwill
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_ 		29. April 2010 @ 18:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is like signing a pact with the Devil.

LOL...I kid...
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DXR88
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_ 		30. April 2010 @ 00:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i want some of what bungie is smoking, you'd be better off signing on with EA.

a new Marathon would be badass.
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rvinkebob
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_ 		30. April 2010 @ 01:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So it seems Infinity Ward is headed south :P
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DXR88
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_ 		30. April 2010 @ 01:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by rvinkebob:
 So it seems Infinity Ward is headed south :P
the Real Ward is already dead, hopefully bungie doesn't get the knife in the back as well.
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KillerBug
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_ 		30. April 2010 @ 05:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I certainly hope Bungie goes under...their only claim to fame is a series of Quake rip-offs...we don't need companies like this clogging up the shelves with 50 copies of the same game that isn't any different than the last 3 releases of that same game, and really isn't any different from something made by ID software back in the '90s.
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kikzm33z
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_ 		30. April 2010 @ 14:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sorry, but Activision sucks.
They only thing they care about is money.

Thank to Bungie being famous for the Halo franchise, I'm sure that Activision will take huge advantage of this and squeeze every single penny out of their customers, for example MW2 being priced at £50.

Bungie are great developers and I'm looking forward to see what they're going to give us all, but Activision will help themselves to find the cheapest method.
Such as lack of dedi servers for CoD4-6 and MW2 has no dedi servers on PC.
And lack of beta for MW2 creating the most over-hyped game of the year.

Sorry for the stupid rant, but Activision sucks and it must be said.
A shame that Bungie signed with them.
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voyager
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_ 		30. April 2010 @ 16:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This means that Activision is powerful right now and want to destroy the competition, EA.
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DXR88
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_ 		30. April 2010 @ 21:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by voyager:
 This means that Activision is powerful right now and want to destroy the competition, EA.
EA and Activision are the same story in different covers.


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