HHW Gaming: Sony Is Buying ‘Destiny’ Developer & Original ‘Halo’ Creator Bungie, The Gaming World Reacts

One other day, one other large acquisition on this planet of video video games.

Following Take-Two Interactive’s buy of cellular gaming large Zynga and Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Sony stated it too might purchase a well-liked recreation studio. Monday (Jan.31), Future developer and authentic Halo creator Bungie introduced that Sony is buying it for $3.6 billion.

In a weblog publish, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons shortly answered the burning query stating that it’ll “proceed to independently publish and creatively develop our video games.”

“In SIE, we’ve discovered a associate who unconditionally helps us in all we’re and who needs to speed up our imaginative and prescient to create generation-spanning leisure, all whereas preserving the inventive independence that beats in Bungie’s coronary heart,” Parsons wrote. “Like us, SIE believes that recreation worlds are solely the start of what our IPs can turn into. Collectively, we share a dream of making and fostering iconic franchises that unite buddies around the globe, households throughout generations, and followers throughout a number of platforms and leisure mediums.​”

Regardless of being “owned” by Sony, Bungie will proceed to explain itself as a multi-platform and impartial studio and writer however will place itself alongside the opposite studios owned by Sony. Ps CEO and president Jim Ryan spoke in regards to the deal in a separate weblog publish. “Bungie’s world-class experience in multi-platform improvement and dwell recreation providers will assist us ship on our imaginative and prescient of increasing PlayStation to a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of avid gamers,” Ryan stated.

Head of PlayStation Studios, Hermen Hulst, echoed the identical pleasure in regards to the deal in a separate assertion. Bungie’s technical experience, coupled with their observe file of constructing extremely engaged communities, make them a pure match for collaboration with PlayStation Studios,” he stated. “We’re excited to make plans to share abilities and experience and to unlock the potential in having the good minds at Bungie below the PlayStation roof.”

To additional quell any worries about its video games and them turning into PlayStation exclusives, Bungie launched a faq the place it answered questions on the matter. “No. We would like the worlds we’re creating to increase to anyplace folks play video games. We are going to proceed to be self-published, creatively impartial, and we’ll proceed to drive one, unified Bungie group,” the corporate stated.

Like with Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, there have been loads of reactions to this newest large information. CEO of Microsoft Gaming and Xbox Head Phil Spencer was fast to chime and congratulate each Bungie and PlayStation on the deal.

The information of this deal comes as Bungie prepares to drop Future 2’s most vital content material replace but, The Witch Queen.

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