Bungie Unveils Aerospace, A New Game-Related Project

By Nick Baumfeld
Posted on June 30, 2011 AT 02:31pm

Bungie today fully revealed Bungie Aerospace, a new venture that has been created to help independent developers make better mobile and social games.

In their press release, Bungie stated that “Bungie Aerospace will give studios the creative freedom and the resources they need, like access to the Bungie.net platform and an audience with the incredible Bungie community, to launch their entertainment experiences into orbit.”

The first official partnership for Bungie Aerospace is with Harebrained Schemes, who is helmed by the guy who helped create the “I Love Bees” ARG for Halo 2 (among other things).

As well, the studio’s first mobile game has been announced: Crimson, which will launch of iOS and Android devices this summer.

Bio: Nick Baumfeld has been involved in the video game industry for a good 12 years. He has seen the industry from all view points and has a background in websites, website integration and social media. Nick pioneered the online video game rental business back in the day, moved forward into online video game trading and then moved viral with the well received Video Games Application on Facebook. Today, he has joined up with EGM founder Steve Harris to create something truly unique and special; EGMNOW, a community dedicated to all manner of gamers.

Gaming MO: Nick is a first person shooter type of gamer and enjoys heated bouts of Halo with friends and family (even while being schooled by his children).

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