Who Are 343 Industries? (Halo 4 Developer)

The name of the studio has been around for some time, but a lot of people doesn't know who they are or what they do and well I'm here today to tell you about them before they get famous or hated.
343 Industries is an American studio currently located in Redmont, a little city in Washington with only 54,144 habitants, the studio was created in 2007 by Microsoft Studios to oversee development of the Halo science fiction media franchise, which includes video games, novels, comics, and other multimedia content, the studio is conformed by ex-Bungie and ex-Pandemic employees who moved to the studio when Pandemic was liquidated, 343 Industries name comes from a halo character called 343 Guilty Spark (the little flying robot that helped Master Chief in Halo 3 and then betrayed him)

When Bungie separated from Microsoft in 2007 and became an independent studio the Halo intellectual property rights remained with Microsoft, but that didn't meant that all the future Halo games would had to be developed by Bungie, so when Bungie announced in 2010 that Halo Reach would be their last Halo game ever Microsoft put 343 Industries in charge of the Halo franchise. The first project made by 343 Industries was Halo Waypoint, a downloadable app for Xbox 360 where players can track their stats and accomplishments in the Halo series, and then 343 Industries developed the second DLC for Halo Reach "Defiant". Currently the American studio is working on the remake of Halo: Combat Evolved and the new Halo game Halo 4, their first entirely new game, which is supposed to be the first game of a new trilogy of Halo games.

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