Rumor: Microsoft was in talks with Bungie for acquisition – Gaming – News

According to multiple sources, Microsoft and Bungie have been in talks about an acquisition, whereby the developer of the Destiny games would be acquired by Microsoft. Bungie seems to deny this. The studio was already part of Microsoft in the past.

Among others, Jeff Grubb said during one podcastaflevering van GamesBeat that he has heard that Microsoft and Bungie are said to have had discussions, but that they have not agreed on the price. Eurogamer states that independently of this report it can confirm that the talks have taken place, whereby the takeover from Bungie would be desirable, due to the desire to raise more money for the studio, its projects and employees.

Meanwhile, Bungie’s head, Pete Parsons, has commented on a similar, current rumor that the talks always ended because of the high price that Bungie would charge. Parsons says only about that it is not true. He fails to provide any further explanation. As a result, it is unclear whether he also denies conducting the talks, or just the allegation that the talks have always ended because the parties were unable to reach an agreement on the price.

The American developer Bungie is responsible for, for example, the two Destiny games, but has also made several titles for Microsoft’s Halo series and the two Myth games in the past. Founded in 1991, the studio became part of Microsoft in 2000, but they parted ways again seven years later. Bungie closed one in 2010 publisher deal with Activision, making the latter the publisher of Destiny and Destiny 2. Since last year, Bungie has that too collaboration with Activision ended. The developer retained the rights to Destiny and will publish the games themselves. Incidentally, the studio is not only working on Destiny, but also on an as yet unknown new game, which is made possible by a substantial investment from the Chinese NetEase, which has 100 million dollars in the project. stopped.