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| colspan="2"|On April 22, 1997, Bungie filed as a business entity in California and began hiring new employees; at this time, the address given for mailing résumés was c/o Brent Pease at "Bungie Software, 1150 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 27, San Jose, CA 95128". Thus it appears that the "real" Bungie West did in fact start in 1997, and only ever operated in San Jose (to be exact, Bungie West was in a suburb west of San Jose known as Campbell, which is only a few miles east of Cupertino). | | colspan="2"|On April 22, 1997, Bungie filed as a business entity in California and began hiring new employees; at this time, the address given for mailing résumés was c/o Brent Pease at "Bungie Software, 1150 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 27, San Jose, CA 95128". Thus it appears that the "real" Bungie West did in fact start in 1997, and only ever operated in San Jose (to be exact, Bungie West was in a suburb west of San Jose known as Campbell, which is only a few miles east of Cupertino). | ||
On June 19, 2000, it was announced that Bungie had been sold to Microsoft. As the majority of the work on Oni for Windows and Mac came to a close in the fall of 2000, some Bungie West personnel began moving to Bungie's new location in Microsoft's office complex in Redmond, Washington, while some employees went to other studios, or formed their own | On June 19, 2000, it was announced that Bungie had been sold to Microsoft. As the majority of the work on Oni for Windows and Mac came to a close in the fall of 2000, some Bungie West personnel began moving to Bungie's new location in Microsoft's office complex in Redmond, Washington, while some employees went to other studios, or formed their own. Today, Bungie's sole office is in Kirkland, Washington (since the separation from MS in 2007), and a few of the men and women behind Oni still work there; the list of those names is found in the footnotes to the article on [[Oni]]. | ||
| [[Image:Bungie_West_San_Jose.jpg|thumb|right|272px|The location of the | | [[Image:Bungie_West_San_Jose.jpg|thumb|right|272px|The location of the Bungie West studio.]] | ||
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| colspan="3"| You can see a tour of Bungie West back in its short-lived glory days in [http://hl.udogs.net/files/Gaming/Bungie%20Related%20Movies/MWSF%202000/Bungie%20TV/MWSF%202000/bTV_day2_big.mov this tour video] from 2000, guided by Dave Dunn, one of Oni's level architects. | | colspan="3"| You can see a tour of Bungie West back in its short-lived glory days in [http://hl.udogs.net/files/Gaming/Bungie%20Related%20Movies/MWSF%202000/Bungie%20TV/MWSF%202000/bTV_day2_big.mov this tour video] from 2000, guided by Dave Dunn, one of Oni's level architects. | ||