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Thursday 30 June 2011

Bungie Reveals Aerospace

Video game developer Bungie today announced Aerospace, a new project created to help small indie developers set up new franchises through funding and promotion. The target genre of gaming will be mobile, handheld and social titles like Farmville and Professor Layton, both hits in their own right that have excelled thanks to the help of first-party devs. In a press release detailing the project, Bungie revealed Aerospace will give new producers "the creative freedom and the resources they need, including access to the Bungie.net platform and an audience with the incredible Bungie community, to launch their entertainment experiences into orbit". Bungie are most famous for their work on the Halo franchise up until Reach in 2010 (343 Industries now head that series, already working on Combat Evolved Anniversary and Halo 4), so if anyone can help indie developers launch new killer apps on portable platforms it's them. What all this means for gamers of the future is uncertain, but they can at least rest assured that Bungie are hard at work on a new title, Crimson, set for release on iPhone and iPad this Summer and a brand new science-fiction gaming franchise set to begin in 2013!

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