The Halo Bungie Site Tracks Your Stats

The developers of the extremely popular Halo trilogy are called Bungie Studios. Originally founded by two undergraduate students in May of ’91 the original name was called ‘Bungie Software Products Corporation’ and primarily concentrated on making Macintosh games within it’s first nine years. The first game from Bungie was called Gnop! Which, if you really look at it, its Pong spelled backwards. The Halo Bungie developer’s produced the popular games Marathon and Myth series as well as Oni.

It wasn’t until 2000 that Bungie’s current project called Halo: Combat Evolved turned into the killer app first-person shooter to launch for Microsoft’s Xbox console. After the release of Halo: Combat Evolved which sold more then 6.5 million copies after it’s release, this ever growing game quickly became Xbox’s flagship franchise. In 2004 Halo 2 was released and raked in more then $125 million on its day of release allowing it to set a record in the entertainment industry. Halo 3 for xbox was released in late 2007 and it surpassed the record’s that Halo 2 achieved and raked in over $170 million on it’s first twenty-four hours of release.

Only a few day’s after the release of the final chapter in the Halo series, Halo Bungie announced that it was splitting off from Microsoft and would become known as Bungie LLC. There is however nothing to fear about Bungie being an independent company, they’ve already stated that Halo 3 may actually NOT be the last game in the series and it’s been known that the studio has begun working on Halo: Chronicles with Peter Jackson. Although there have been no news about other projects and nothing has officially been announced, Halo Bungie has dropped hints that something has begun.

If there’s one thing that Halo Bungie studio’s is known for around the gaming world, other then putting out killer app first person shooter’s, it’s the fact that the men and women who work at this studio are considered a dedicated workplace and an amazing group of people. After Hurricane Katrina, Bungie donated proceeds from the sales of special t-shirts to the Red Cross and when they found out about a gamer who sent in his Xbox 360 for repair and the gamer lost all the personalization on the Xbox. Bungie sent the gamer an autographed Master Chief helmet and some other swag. Nice group of people right? Yeah, we thought so too.