Following on from yesterday’s announcement that Halo Infinite is getting a third-person mode, the future of the franchise has now been revealed in a seven minute video that provides our first look at where the franchise goes from here.
The big announcement is that 343 Studios is no longer and is being rebranded as Halo Studios as the company looks to hire the next talent for the franchise.
It’s also been confirmed that the game will leave the Slipspace Engine and all future projects will be developed in Unreal Engine 5. We got to see a 7 minute video with a bunch of tech demos that were the findings of Project Foundry, a project designed to show what a Halo game could look like using Unreal Engine 5.
We get to see Master Chief in all of their glory as well as some iconic locations from the game that look better than ever.
This change comes after it was well documented that 343 Studios had trouble with the Slipspace Engine throughout developing Halo Infinite, and this will no doubt lead to a less-troubled development as far as the engine is concerned.
With the team only just seemingly hiring for the next Halo projects now, expect it to be sometime before this eventuates into anything meaningful, but it’s still great to see Microsoft committed to its main franchise.
