Sony Just Bought Bungie

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Sony, makers of fine and unavailable Playstation products, announced this morning they are purchasing game studio Bungie for $3.6 billion. It’s a move that would otherwise have been completely unexpected if rival Microsoft hadn’t been loudly throwing its cash around lately.
What IS unexpected here is Bungie’s overall journey through the years. They started developing games for the Mac until Microsoft noticed an impressive little game they were working on named Halo and bought them just to get their hands on it. It turned out to be one of the smartest buys in gaming history, as it gave their new XBox brand some value in the eyes of gamers prone to skepticism. Bungie remained an XBox second party for a few years, but eventually the studio was cut loose (MS kept Halo) and snapped up by Activision.
If Bungie had stayed an Activision studio, they would now be owned by Microsoft AGAIN. But they eventually...

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