Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) is an American video game developer based in Redmond, Washington, part of Xbox Game Studios. Headed by Pierre Hintze, the studio is responsible for the Halo science fiction franchise, and develops Halo projects internally, and in collaboration with other studios. The studio was created in 2007 to oversee the franchise after original Halo developer Bungie regained its independence from Microsoft, and originally named after the character 343 Guilty Spark.
After co-developing downloadable content for Halo: Reach, Bungie's final Halo game, 343 Industries released Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and Halo 4, the latter starting the studio's "Reclaimer Saga" of the mainline games, which further encompassed Halo 5: Guardians (2015) and concluded with Halo Infinite in 2021. The studio rebranded in October 2024.
History
Formation and early projects
Bungie was a video game developer working on their next project when they were acquired by Microsoft in 2000.