On March 31st Bungie will officially be untethered from their super-massive franchise Halo.

343 Industries, who are currently producing Halo 4 and remastered Halo: Combat Evolved, will now be responsible for all the data concerning everything Halo. This means game stats, player service records, hosting user-generated content, and operating the in-game ‘Pro Service’.

The transition began last year and now Bungie have confirmed that come next month it will finally finished with the transferrals. Bungie have said that they will preserve all historical Halo data on Bungie.net ‘for as long as the internet and Bungie’s data storage systems remain functional’.

“Thanks for making the Halo-era version of Bungie.net more successful than we could have possibly imagined. You complete us,” read a Bungie statement.

It’s sad to see Bungie leaving the franchise behind, but they have signed a ten year deal with Activision for a new IP, so it will be interesting to see what blooms from the studio over the next couple of years.

Source: MCV