Bungie Co-Founder Tries New Approach, Licenses Halo Engine

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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Films from the 30s

[AtariAmarok]

" it's how they were making films in the '30s." "

...a decade which gave us The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, and other landmark films. Sometimes, better writing/creation/etc is better than having the most recent effects technology, in films, games, or elsewhere.