{"id":38187,"date":"2012-05-22T15:59:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T13:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=38187"},"modified":"2012-05-22T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T14:36:59","slug":"activision-bungie-contract-details-outed-during-infinity-ward-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/38187-activision-bungie-contract-details-outed-during-infinity-ward-case","title":{"rendered":"Activision, Bungie contract details outed during Infinity Ward case"},"content":{"rendered":"

While lawyers argue about the boring stuff in the ongoing legal drama between Activision<\/a> and ex-Infinity Ward<\/a> men Vince Zampella<\/a> and Jason West<\/a>, somebody has leaked the contract between the publisher and Bungie<\/a> which was apparently included in the documentation for just this sort of thing.<\/p>\n

According to the contract, Bungie is signed up for a four game deal to develop a series of “massively multiplayer style (i.e. client-based mission structures with persistent elements), sci-fantasy, action-shooter games” titles, codenamed Destiny, including DLC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first game is scheduled to launch as an Xbox exclusive – either the Xbox 360<\/a> or the next-gen successor – with a PS3<\/a> version to follow if it’s up to “quality and feature parity.”<\/p>\n

The contract also puts Bungie down for a $2.5 million annual pay cheque, and an additional bonus of $2.5 million if the first game makes it to 90 or better on critic aggregate site Gamerankings.<\/p>\n

The first game is expected next year.<\/p>\n

Source: LA Times<\/a> (via CVG<\/a>)<\/h5>\n

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Includes lots of DLC, obviously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":38228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,587,2533,451,2219],"class_list":["post-38187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-activision","tag-bungie","tag-dlc","tag-megarom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38229,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38187\/revisions\/38229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}