O’Donnell attorney blasts Bungie for betraying its founding composer

The legal battle between composer Marty O’Donnell and Bungie, the game studio that made Destiny and Halo, took a huge personal toll and tore friendships apart, according to O’Donnell’s attorney. The story is like a plot from a video game — and not a happy one.

O’Donnell, an award-winning composer of the memorable music for both the Halo and Destiny series, won an 18-month legal fight on Friday when an arbitrator in Washington state ruled that Bungie broke its agreement with O’Donnell by firing him without cause in April 2014 and then stripped him of his founder’s stock. Bungie’s Halo games alone have sold more than 60 million copies, and Destiny, published by Activision, is also selling millions of copies.