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343 Industries
343 Industries is an American video game developer located in Redmond, Washington. Named after the "Halo" character 343 Guilty Spark, the company was established in 2007 by Microsoft Game Studios (now called Xbox Game Studios) to oversee the development of the "Halo" science fiction media franchise following a split between Microsoft and Bungie. "" was the first title released by 343 Industries in which they played a lead development role. The newest release from the company was "" in 2018. 343 is currently
the "Halo" character. Though other final gender-neutral names for the final product were considered, positive developer and fan response to the leaked codename led to it becoming permanent. Deborah Harrison, one of Cortana's 'personality designers', met with 343 Industries and added more confidence to the personality. "As a result of the meetings we ended up coming back and baking this into the DNA of the digital assistant speech pattern, her approach to jokes and her approach to chit chat, and we decided to dial