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343 Industries, commonly shortened to 343i or 343, is a subsidiary of Microsoft Game Studios located in Redmond, Washington. It is tasked with overseeing the Halo franchise and creating new properties for the series. The team's name is a reference to 343 Guilty Spark, the monitor of Installation 04.

Overview

After Bungie separated from Microsoft to become and independent studio in 2007, the intellectual property rights to the Halo franchise remained with Microsoft. In 2010, Bungie announced that Halo: Reach would be their last Halo game and that all future games in the series would be developed by 343 Industries.^[1] Since its establishment in 2007, several Bungie employees have transferred to 343, including Frank O'Connor and Chad Armstrong. In addition, 343 Industries has hired several of its employees from the Halo community, including Jeremy Patenaude and Jacob Benton of Ascendant Justice and Jessica Shea of Hawty McBloggy.

343's first project was Halo Waypoint, a downloadable Xbox LIVE application developed in conjunction with Certain Affinity and released in 2009. Its content is also available on the official Halo website at Xbox.com. Certain Affinity also created the maps in the Defiant Map Pack, the first map pack to be released by 343. Their current major projects include Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, developed in conjunction with Saber Interactive, and Halo 4, the first game in a new trilogy. In 2010, 343 released their first official podcast, entitled 343 Sparkast. After Bungie announced they would discontinue Halo-related Bungie Weekly Updates in July 7, 2011, 343 Industries started publishing the Halo Bulletin, a weekly writeup of Halo news.^[2]

Projects

Upcoming and ongoing

Halo Waypoint - An in-house production for Xbox LIVE.
The Forerunner Saga - A series of novels written by Greg Bear.
- Halo: Cryptum
Halo: Fall of Reach - A comic book adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Brian Reed with art by Felix Ruiz.
Untitled Halo novel series - A post-war novel series written by Karen Traviss.
- Halo: Glasslands
Halo: Reach - Future content, including the Defiant Map Pack.
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary - Upcoming remake of Halo: Combat Evolved.
Halo 4 - Upcoming first game in a new trilogy.

Released

Halo Wars - A RTS game made in conjunction with Robot Entertainment.
Halo: Helljumper - A comic book series written by Peter David and drawn by Eric Nguyen.
Halo Encyclopedia - Edited by Tobias Buckell and published by DK Books.
Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe - A collection of short stories written by Eric Nylund, Tobias Buckell, Karen Traviss, and other critically acclaimed authors.
Halo: Blood Line - A comic book series written by Fred Van Lente and drawn by Francis Portela.
Halo Legends - A collection of anime shorts created in partnership with numerous Japanese studios.

Known employees

Frank O'Connor - Franchise Development Director, formerly an employee of Bungie ^[3]
Kevin Grace - Managing Editor ^[4]
Bonnie Ross – General Manager ^[5]
Jonathan Goff - Community Manager ^[5]
Dan Ayoub - Executive Producer ^[6]
Jeremy Patenaude – Content Creator (Formerly of AscendantJustice.com) ^[5]
Jacob Benton – Content Creator (Formerly of AscendantJustice.com)^[5]
Corrinne Yu - Principle Engine Programmer ^[7]
Justin Korthof - Community Manager ^[8]
Chad Armstrong - Designer, formerly an employee of Bungie ^[9]
Gabriel Garza - Artist ^[10]
Nicolas Bouvier - Artist ^[10]
Jessica Shea - Community Manager (Formerly of Hawty McBloggy)
David Ellis (formerly of 1up.com) - Content Producer ^[11]
Jason Pace - Creative Director for Halo Waypoint ^[12]
Sotaro Tojima - Audio Director^[13]
Vic DeLeon - Lead Mission Artist, formerly of Bungie ^[14]
Kenneth Scott - Senior Art Director ^[7]
Josh Holmes – Executive Producer ^[5]
Daniel Price - Senior Service Engineer ^[15]
Che Chou - Studio Producer ^[16]
Ryan Payton - Creative Lead ^[17]
David Wu - Chief Technology Officer ^[18]
Sally Huang - Producer ^[19]

Sources

[1] IGN: Halo: Reach Will Be Bungie's Last Halo Game

[2] Halo Waypoint: The Halo Bulletin 6/15/11

[3] Frank O'Connor's Business Card

[4] - Halo: Evolutions at Tobias Buckell Online

[Nelson-5] Major Nelson: #343: Interviews with members of 343 Industries about Halo and more

[6] Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Exclusive

[kotaku-7] Kotaku - It's Official MGS4 Producer Now Working on Halo

[8] Twitter.com - SixOkay

[9] NeoGaf: View Single Post - Halo: Reach |OT3| This Thread is Not a Natural Formation

[evo-10] Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, About the artists

[11] 343 Industries Podcast #1

[12] Welcome to Halo Waypoint

[13] 343 Industries Twitter Account

[14] LinkedIn: Vic DeLeon

[15] LinkedIn: Daniel Price

[16] LinkedIn: Che Chou

[17] Twitter: Ryan Payton

[18] LinkedIn: David Wu

[19] LinkedIn: Sally Huang

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-'''343 Industries''' is a [[Microsoft]] [[Microsoft Game Studios|Game Studios]] internal-build team established to create new properties for the ''Halo'' series.<ref>[http://www.8bitjoystick.com/2009/04/halo-franchise-development-group-at-microsoft-is-developing-the-halo-franchise.html Emerald City ComiCon 2009: Halo Discussion Panel]</ref><ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/article-Halo-Legends-Waypoint.html Halo.Xbox.com - Halo Legends and Halo Waypoint Announced at Comic-Con]</ref>
+'''343 Industries''', commonly shortened to '''343i''' or '''343''', is a subsidiary of [[Microsoft Game Studios]] located in [[Wikipedia:Redmond, Washington|Redmond, Washington]]. It is tasked with overseeing the [[Halo|''Halo'' franchise]] and creating new properties for the series. The team's name is a reference to [[343 Guilty Spark]], the [[monitor]] of [[Installation 04]].
+==Overview==
+After [[Bungie]] separated from [[Microsoft]] to become and independent studio in [[2007]], the intellectual property rights to the ''Halo'' franchise remained with Microsoft. In [[2010]], Bungie announced that ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' would be their last ''Halo'' game and that all future games in the series would be developed by 343 Industries.<ref>[http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/108/1086915p1.html '''IGN''': ''Halo: Reach Will Be Bungie's Last Halo Game'']</ref> Since its establishment in 2007, several Bungie employees have transferred to 343, including [[Frank O'Connor]] and [[Chad Armstrong]]. In addition, 343 Industries has hired several of its employees from the ''Halo'' community, including [[Jeremy Patenaude]] and [[Jacob Benton]] of [[Ascendant Justice (blog)|Ascendant Justice]] and [[Jessica Shea]] of Hawty McBloggy.
+'s first project was [[Halo Waypoint]], a downloadable [[Xbox LIVE]] application developed in conjunction with [[Certain Affinity]] and released in [[2009]]. Its content is also available on the official ''Halo'' website at [[Xbox.com]]. Certain Affinity also created the maps in the [[Defiant Map Pack]], the first [[map pack]] to be released by 343. Their current major projects include ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]'', developed in conjunction with [[Wikipedia:Saber Interactive|Saber Interactive]], and ''[[Halo 4]]'', the first game in a new trilogy. In 2010, 343 released their first official podcast, entitled [[343 Sparkast]]. After Bungie announced they would discontinue ''Halo''-related [[Bungie Weekly Update]]s in [[2011|July 7, 2011]], 343 Industries started publishing the [[Halo Bulletin]], a weekly writeup of ''Halo'' news.<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/news/headline/the-halo-bulletin-61511/73664 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''The Halo Bulletin 6/15/11'']</ref>
 ==Projects==
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 **''[[Halo: Cryptum]]''
 *''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]'' - A comic book adaptation of the novel of the [[Halo: The Fall of Reach|same name]], written by Brian Reed with art by Felix Ruiz.
-**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp]]'' - The first story arc in the novel adaption.
+*[[Unnamed Halo novel series|Untitled ''Halo'' novel series]] - A post-[[Human-Covenant War|war]] novel series written by [[Karen Traviss]].
-**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Covenant]]'' - The second story arc in the novel adaption.
+**''[[Halo: Glasslands]]''
-**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Pillar of Autumn]]'' - The third and final story arc in the novel adaption.
+*''[[Halo: Reach]]'' - Future content, including the [[Defiant Map Pack]].
-*[[Unnamed Halo novel series|Untitled ''Halo'' novel series]] - Written by [[Karen Traviss]].
-*''[[Halo: Reach]]'' - Future content.
 *''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]'' - Upcoming remake of ''Halo: Combat Evolved''.
-*''[[Halo 4]]''  - Upcoming game.
+*''[[Halo 4]]''  - Upcoming first game in a new trilogy.
 ===Released===
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 *[[Bonnie Ross]] – General Manager <ref name="Nelson">[http://majornelson.com/archive/2009/12/09/show-343-interviews-with-some-of-the-343-team-about-halo-and-more.aspx '''Major Nelson''': ''#343: Interviews with members of 343 Industries about Halo and more'']</ref>
 *[[Jonathan Goff]] - Community Manager <ref name="Nelson"/>
-*[[Dan Ayoub]] - Publisher, Executive Producer <ref>[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Exclusive|'''''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary'' Exclusive''']]</ref>
+*[[Dan Ayoub]] - Executive Producer <ref>[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Exclusive|'''''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary'' Exclusive''']]</ref>
 *[[Jeremy Patenaude]] – Content Creator (Formerly of [[Ascendant Justice (Blog)|AscendantJustice.com]]) <ref name="Nelson"/>
 *[[Jacob Benton]] – Content Creator (Formerly of AscendantJustice.com)<ref name="Nelson"/>
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 *Justin Korthof - Community Manager <ref>[http://twitter.com/SixOkay Twitter.com - SixOkay]</ref>
 *[[Chad Armstrong]] - Designer, formerly an employee of Bungie <ref>[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=26149228&postcount=104341 '''NeoGaf''': ''View Single Post - Halo: Reach |OT3| This Thread is Not a Natural Formation'']</ref>
-*[[Gabriel Garza]] - Artist
+*[[Gabriel Garza]] - Artist <ref name="evo">'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''', ''About the artists''</ref>
-*[[Nicolas Bouvier]] - Artist
+*[[Nicolas Bouvier]] - Artist <ref name="evo"/>
-*Jason Pace - Creative Director for ''Halo'' ''Waypoint'' <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xr0d1c6lGY ''Welcome to Halo Waypoint'']</ref>
+*[[Jessica Shea]] - Community Manager (Formerly of Hawty McBloggy)
 *[[David Ellis]] (formerly of 1up.com) - Content Producer <ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/Content/assets/en-us/Podcast/343Sparkast_001.mp3 '''343 Industries Podcast #1''']</ref>
+*Jason Pace - Creative Director for ''Halo Waypoint'' <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xr0d1c6lGY ''Welcome to Halo Waypoint'']</ref>
 *[[Wikipedia:Sotaro Tojima|Sotaro Tojima]] - Audio Director<ref>[http://twitter.com/HaloWaypoint/status/6466679383/ 343 Industries Twitter Account]</ref>
+*[[Vic DeLeon]] - Lead Mission Artist, formerly of Bungie <ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vic-deleon/0/a4/376 '''LinkedIn''': ''Vic DeLeon'']</ref>
 *Kenneth Scott - Senior Art Director <ref name="kotaku">[http://kotaku.com/5057683/its-official-mgs4-producer-now-working-on-halo '''Kotaku''' - ''It's Official MGS4 Producer Now Working on Halo'']</ref>
 *Josh Holmes – Executive Producer <ref name="Nelson"/>
-*Daniel Price - Software Developer
+*Daniel Price - Senior Service Engineer <ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-price/7/569/425 '''LinkedIn''': ''Daniel Price'']</ref>
-*Che Chou - Studio Producer
+*Che Chou - Studio Producer <ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/che-chou/4/a91/133 '''LinkedIn''': ''Che Chou'']</ref>
-*Josh Kerwin - Unknown{{Citation needed}}
+*Ryan Payton - Creative Lead <ref>[http://twitter.com/#!/ryanpayton '''Twitter''': ''Ryan Payton'']</ref>
-*Ryan Payton - Unknown <ref name="kotaku"/>
+*David Wu - Chief Technology Officer <ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/david0wu0pseudo '''LinkedIn''': ''David Wu]''</ref>
-*David Wu - Unknown <ref name="kotaku"/>
+*Sally Huang - Producer <ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/sallyhuang '''LinkedIn''': ''Sally Huang'']</ref>
-*Seth Gibson -Unknown
-*Sally Huang - Unknown {{Citation needed}}
-*Jessica Shea - Community Manager (Formerly known as Hawty McBloggy)
-*Vic DeLeon - Lead Mission Artist, formerly of Bungie
-==Trivia==
-*The team's name is a reference to [[343 Guilty Spark]], the [[Forerunner]] [[monitor]] of [[Installation 04]]. [[343 Sparkast]], the studio's official podcast, is also named in reference to the monitor.
 ==Sources==
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+[[Category:Companies]]