The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is reporting that Microsoft is doubling the staff for the next installment in the Halo series.

"Making a game is getting to be more and more like making a movie," J Allard said in an interview. "You need to hire more artists, more animators and more musicians."

The Chief XNA Architect revealed to the SPI that 65 people worked for more than two years to develop Halo 2 and now the software giant is doubling Bungie staff for the next installment.