Bungie has not been a Halo company for some time now. Since parting ways with Microsoft, the studio has managed to firmly establish a new identity far removed from the Master Chiefs. Next month, Bungie will sever the last remaining threads in the Xbox's iconic franchise, taking its stats, screenshots, and custom gametype archives offline for good.

In the first This Week At Bungie post of the year, community manager Dylan Gafner took a short break from Destiny for the last time on Bungie's legacy Halo site. The site had not been updated in over nine years, but remained online as a memorial to the thousands of community stats and creations from "Halo 2" to "Reach."

"On February 9, the halo.bungie.net website will be permanently offline," Gafner wrote." Everyone is welcome to save their stats and files in any way they wish to save anything. Remember that our news articles, forums, and groups were imported into the current version of Bungie.net in 2013."

After completing Halo: Reach, Bungie turned over Halo operations to a new studio, 343 Industries, which last year (mostly) successfully ported the original game to PC with Halo: The Master Chief Collection but largely ignored the community content that preceded it.

Bungie at least gave people a few weeks to archive what they could before the site went down. A little digging around turned up some screenshots of my own (a very embarrassing gamertag uploaded by a 14-year-old nut); besides "Halo," the site also includes "Myth," "Marathon," and the short-lived indie publishing division "Bungie Aerospace," and other old Bungie titles.

The old site may have been stagnant, but it was a great little peek into Bungie's past before "Destiny". It's a bit of a shame to see it go.