Microsoft still owns the rights to all things Halo and remains on seemingly good terms with Bungie. From then on, Bungie was the house of Halo, devoted to the series even after separating from Microsoft in 2007. The developer’s success undoubtedly led Microsoft to acquire them in late 2000. Yet Bungie’s roots go back further to ‘90s computer titles like Marathon and Myth-and even to an anime-action game called Oni.
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Shadowrun games would survive, however, as the license found its way back to series creator Jordan Weisman and the Kickstarter-fed RPG series Shadowrun Returns.īungie is forever tied to Halo, whether it’s the entire series or the original game that single-handedly made the Xbox stand out at its 2001 launch. It arrived in May of 2007, and Microsoft gave FASA Studio a good four months before shutting them down. Microsoft set FASA Studio to work on a game based on Shadowrun and its magical cyberpunk trappings, though the developer crafted a first-person shooter instead of any RPG.
When Microsoft branched out into consoles with the Xbox, FASA delivered two MechAssault games, though their best-known work has no futuristic battle-bots it’s the 2003 flight-shooter Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. In 1999 Microsoft bought and renamed them FASA Studio, and they continued with various forms of MechWarrior 4. FASA’s game division emerged in 1995 under the name FASA Interactive Technologies and, true to Battletech’s theme, made games about mecha. FASA is a name better known for tabletop roleplaying hits like Shadowrun and Battletech, but those popular titles lent themselves quite well to video games.
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