We’ve identified for some time now that 343 Industries is at work on no matter is subsequent for the Halo franchise, whereas earlier this yr, the studio steered that it had a number of initiatives within the works. Now, along with formally rebranding itself as Halo Studios, the developer has confirmed that it does certainly have a number of initiatives within the pipeline.
All future Halo titles are going to be constructed on Unreal Engine 5, and having spent the final couple of years engaged on an expansive tech demo dubbed Venture Foundry, Halo Studios has now revealed that it has a number of full Halo video games in growth as effectively.
In keeping with studio head Pierre Hintze, as Halo Studios, the corporate has “recalibrated” itself, and as an alternative of focusing the whole thing of its efforts on a single challenge, empowered by the shift to Unreal 5, it at present has a number of titles in growth without delay.
“We had a disproportionate concentrate on making an attempt to create the situations to achieve success in servicing Halo Infinite,” he stated. “[But switching to Unreal] permits us to place all of the concentrate on making a number of new experiences on the highest high quality attainable.”
COO Elizabeth van Wyck additionally defined that Halo Studios can be inserting a a lot larger emphasis on getting suggestions from gamers at a lot earlier levels of initiatives’ growth. “We’re in search of earlier and earlier, wider and wider suggestions from our gamers,” she stated. “We began that with The Grasp Chief Assortment, and carried that on with Halo Infinite, and we wish to do it much more for our subsequent initiatives. On the finish of the day, it’s not simply how do we consider, it’s how do our gamers consider it?”
As for what the a number of new Halo initiatives in growth are, that’s anybody’s guess at this level. Presumably, Halo 7 (or regardless of the subsequent mainline title within the sequence seems to be) can be one, whereas leaks have claimed that one other remaster of Halo: Fight Advanced can also be within the works.
