As the title is saying, it is still a rumor, but a rumor that is growing in strength. The final 'discoveries' we can find at Gameinformer who got their information from a source close to Bungie. Below you can find a short summary.

Bungie would do a 'buy-back' of their shares owned by Microsoft to become independent once again. If this would go through there would still be some conditions. Microsoft would retain the rights to Halo, simply because this game made the Xbox somewhat succesful.

Another condition is that Bungie is required to ask Microsoft first to publish their new games. This way, Microsoft is able to keep the future hits of Bungie under their control before they can sell it to the competition.


Let's hope this rumor gets cleared up fast.

In other news: