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On April 22, 1997, Bungie filed as a business entity in California and began hiring new employees; at this time, the address for mailing résumés was "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. Since its first employees, Brent Pease and Michael Evans, were hired away from Apple like Klein was, it's not surprising that Bungie West's San Jose location is only several miles east of Cupertino. | On April 22, 1997, Bungie filed as a business entity in California and began hiring new employees; at this time, the address for mailing résumés was "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. Since its first employees, Brent Pease and Michael Evans, were hired away from Apple like Klein was, it's not surprising that Bungie West's San Jose location is only several miles east of Cupertino. | ||
[[Image:San Jose, Cupertino, and Campbell.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The towns surrounding the studio (marked with a star).]] | [[Image:San Jose, Cupertino, and Campbell.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The towns surrounding the studio (marked with a star).]] | ||
Though the street address is definitively listed as being in San Jose, a neighboring suburban town called Campbell almost encompasses the location of Bungie West's former office, as seen in the map to the right. One developer stated privately that Bungie West was actually in Campbell, and that this was the basis of the name of Konoko's weapon, the Campbell Equalizer, but there are [[Easter eggs# | Though the street address is definitively listed as being in San Jose, a neighboring suburban town called Campbell almost encompasses the location of Bungie West's former office, as seen in the map to the right. One developer stated privately that Bungie West was actually in Campbell, and that this was the basis of the name of Konoko's weapon, the Campbell Equalizer, but there are [[Easter eggs#Name drops|other possibilities]]. | ||
==Closing and relocation== | ==Closing and relocation== | ||
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, | 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20121018002238/http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2003928945_bungie06.html Bungie's new location], Microsoft's Millennium office complex in Redmond, Washington, while some employees went to other studios or formed their own. In 2005, Bungie moved out of the Redmond offices [https://web.archive.org/web/20050324160959/http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/202048 into a building in Kirkland], a suburb between Seattle and Redmond. | ||
In 2007, Bungie separated from Microsoft and | In 2007, Bungie [https://web.archive.org/web/20121018002238/https://www.seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2003928945_bungie06.html separated from Microsoft] and expanded their Kirkland office. Then in 2010 they [https://web.archive.org/web/20100801201152/https://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU_073010 moved to neighboring Bellevue], just south of Kirkland. Further growth in the studio led to [https://www.geekwire.com/2021/bungie-inks-lease-two-floors-downtown-seattle-tower-room-300-employees/ opening a second office] in Seattle in 2021. Very few of the men and women behind Oni still work at Bungie; the list of their names is found at the end of the [[Oni]] article. | ||
<gallery mode="slideshow" caption="The San Jose office building as of 2025"> | |||
Bungie West frontage now.jpg | |||
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[[Category:Oni history]] | [[Category:Oni history]] | ||