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Innovative Online Gameplay Community Serves Up 4 Million Pages Per Day

Overview The Bungie.net site is the online companion to the wildly successful Halo 2 video game for Xbox, released in November 2004 by Microsoft. The site also acts as the community hub for all things related to Bungie games. Built with the Microsoft .NET Framework, Bungie.net serves up more than 4 million pages per day, accumulating 300 gigabytes of online game statistics per month from more than 1 million games played daily. Deemed "Most Innovative Design" by IGN Entertainment in 2004, the site provides innovative ways for users to view game statistics and details as well as interact with each other through forums and team Web pages. The release of the Bungie.net site represented a milestone in online console gameplay.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	April 2007	Downloads	2
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Web Development and Design, .NET, Application Development

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