Halo 3 developers breaking free from Microsoft (MSFT): Is MSFT culture stifling to game development?

Published: October 5, 2007, 2:01 pm

Tags: 360, bungie studios, bungiestudios, culture, games, halo 3, halo3, microsoft, msft, xbox

Filed under: Bad news, Rumors, Microsoft (MSFT)Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is known as a stifler of individual culture in many ways, and why would it not be? Most companies that are decades old, global, and are billion-dollar enterprises emerged from a shifty, risk-taking entrepreneurship to bureaucratic, slow-moving, corporate monstrosities with so many layers of management that they would make the world's largest sheet cake jealous. Unfortunately for Microsoft, that apparent corporate culture is not sitting well with Bungie Studios, the game studio that created the Halo game series and have made more gaming and entertainment money for Microsoft that all other efforts combined. Halo 3, the latest in the series, has made $300 million for the company -- and it's not even two weeks out of release yet.Is Bungie really trying to split away from its large corporate parent? Bungie pulled away from its parent to develop Halo 3 and even blocked entrance into its studio by Microsoft

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