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Bungie continued to expand, and in 1997 work began on a new project, codenamed ''Blam!''<ref name="gamesradar-history of halo"/> (Jones had changed the name from ''Monkey Nuts'' because he could not bring himself to tell his mother about the new game under that title.)<ref>{{cite book |last= Trautmann|first=Eric|title=The Art of Halo|year= 2004|publisher= Del Ray Publishing|___location=New York |isbn=0-345-47586-0|page=ix}}</ref> ''Blam!'' evolved from a real-time strategy game to a third-person shooter to a [[first-person shooter]] called ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''. Jones role in development was unlike ''Marathon'' and ''Myth'', where Jones was involved in developing more than half the levels and much to most of the story. Instead, he was the project lead<ref name="interview">{{cite web|url=http://www.next-gen.biz/features/hot-100-game-developers-2006|title=The Hot 100 Game Developers of 2006|work=Next Generation Magazine|date=2006-03-18|accessdate=2008-03-01|first=Next Gen|last=Staff}}{{dead link|date=April 2016}}</ref> and a manager, barely providing any code to the game. He would read war journals by authors such as [[John Kinkaid]] and [[Winston Churchill]].<ref name="bungie-jones interviewed by you"/>
In 2000, [[Microsoft]] acquired Bungie, moving the team from Chicago to Washington State. Jones recalled that the buyout was a "blur [...] We'd been talking to people for years and years—before we even published ''Marathon'', [[Activision]] made a serious offer [to buy us]. But the chance to work on [the Microsoft [[Xbox (console)|Xbox]] console]—the chance to work with a company that took the games seriously. Before that we worried that we'd get bought by someone who just wanted Mac ports or didn't have a clue."<ref name="history of bungie billion dollar donut">{{cite web|author=Bungie |url=http://www.bungie.net/inside/history.aspx?link=oni |title=Billion Dollar Donut: Halo CE |publisher=[[Bungie.net]] |accessdate=2007-10-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080426200333/http://www.bungie.net/inside/history.aspx?link=oni |archivedate=April 26, 2008 }}</ref> Around the same time, a glitch in versions of ''Myth II'' was found to entirely erase a player's hard drive; this led to a massive recall of the games right before they shipped, costing Bungie nearly one million dollars.<ref name="history of bungie billion dollar donut"/><ref name="game icons">{{cite video|people=Bungie
''Combat Evolved'' was highly successful, selling more than a million units in its first six months and driving Xbox sales.<ref name="foxnews-halo 3">{{cite news|author=Moreno-Salazar, Quibian |date=2007-10-09 |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300511,00.html |title=Microsoft Bets Big on Halo 3 |work=[[Fox News]] |accessdate=2010-02-25 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726045259/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C300511%2C00.html |archivedate=July 26, 2008 |df= }}</ref> Jones led the development team that created its sequel, ''[[Halo 2]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/2005/time100/artists/100halo.html|title=The Halo Trinity|work=[[Time Magazine]]|date=2005-04-15|accessdate=2008-03-01|first=Lev|last=Grossman}}</ref> and he worked as design lead on a new video game series, ''[[Destiny (video game)|Destiny]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Destiny/Credits|title=Destiny Credits|publisher=Bungie|work=Bungie|accessdate=2015-02-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=McCaffrey, Ryan|date=2014-06-07|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/07/bungie-co-founder-halo-and-destiny-creator-jason-jones-breaks-11-year-silenc|archive-url=https://archive.is/20141222202231/http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/07/bungie-co-founder-halo-and-destiny-creator-jason-jones-breaks-11-year-silenc|dead-url=yes|archive-date=2014-12-22|title=Bungie Cofounder Halo and Destiny Creator Jason Jones Breaks 11-Year Silence|work=[[IGN]]|publisher=|accessdate=2014-12-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Pakinkis, Tom |date=2010-04-29 |url=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=244819 |title=Marathon boss heads Bungie's new IP |publisher=[[Computer and Video Games]] |accessdate=2010-05-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501163949/http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=244819 |archivedate=May 1, 2010 }}</ref> He was listed in ''[[Next Generation Magazine]]''{{'}}s top 100 Developers in 2006 and 2007.<ref name="interview"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.next-gen.biz/features/hot-100-game-developers-2007 |title=The Hot 100 Game Developers of 2007 |work=Next Generation Magazine |date=2007-03-03 |accessdate=2008-03-01 |author=Staff |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/60hPMBOGZ?url=http://www.next-gen.biz/features/hot-100-game-developers-2007 |archivedate=August 5, 2011 |df= }}</ref>
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