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Bungie Co-Founder Tries New Approach, Licenses Halo Engine

Posted by simoniker on from the halo-dolly dept.

Thanks to GamesIndustry.biz for its article discussing Bungie co-founder Alexander Seropian's forming of Wideload Games, a development studio "which has started work on a new PC/Xbox title based on the Halo engine technology." The studio's development philosophy is an attempt to break with the past by using "a very small number of core staff, and hiring independent staffers to actually bring the game through to completion", and Seropian comments of current large-scale development methodologies: "It's kind of broken... it's kind of antiquated - it's how they were making films in the '30s."

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  1. Heh by *weasel · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone remember all the Doom/Quake clones in the mid late 90's on the PC?

    You say that as if they stopped coming out...

    --
    // "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
  2. Wideload Games? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you need to have a big ass to apply for a job there?

  3. Re:Halo Engine... *snicker* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We need more video game devs like Ghibli.

    Whew... for a second there I thought you said Gigli .

  4. Re:Sounds like Epic and UT2004 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Take a look at the credits in the back of the manual."

    I didn't see the .torrent file for that when I downloaded the game. What does it say?