Beyond Activision’s troubles with Infinity Ward and its staff leaving the boat, Bungie has announced a 10-year publishing agreement with Activision. Activision will receive exclusive and worldwide rights to publish all Bungie’s games: the Bungie’s “next big action game universe.” Activision will then choose the plaforms and devices for the upcoming games which clearly means that Bungie’s Xbox exclusivity is past.

This surprising deal is the result of 9 months of work and Bungie is presented has an independant studio: Activision doesn’t own the studio. The intellectual property remains to Bungie. This would have been pretty hard for Activision to make another deal according to the conflict they had with the ex bosses of Infinity Wars, Vince Zampella and Jason West.

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