E3 2000 Wrapup

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Here's a listing of a number of the post-E3 articles that are currently out on Halo or Oni. Some have doubtless already been reported by other sites and only a few include information for avid Halo or Oni fans that wasn't already covered in our news and forum reports earlier.

HALO @ E3

Oni Articles

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Articles about Oni, the third-person action game originally developed at Bungie West and subsequently sold to Take Two Interactive.

Does Microsoft own all of Bungie's games now?

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Not all of them. In return for the 19.9% of Bungie owned by Take Two Interactive, that company received all rights to the Myth and Oni franchises. Take Two also received the rights to make two licensed games based on the Halo engine.

Microsoft owns the rights to all other games, including the Marathon series from which Halo is allegedly derived.

Does Halo use the Myth or Oni engines?

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No.

Although Halo was originally intended to be the engine for a new version of Myth, that idea was abandoned early in development.

Although Halo was originally intended to be a third-person game, like Oni, and there was some technology sharing between the two development teams, Halo does not use Oni's engine.

The upcoming game Myth 3, being developed by Mumbo Jumbo for Take Two Interactive, uses a Myth 2 engine modified to create a fully 3d game. That engine is in no way related to Halo or Oni.

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