Halo Studios will be giving a “deep dive” presentation on its next projects at the Halo World Championship next month.
The event takes place from 24th – 26th October in Seattle, and will feature a Community Stage holding a number of panels, including one with voice actors Steve Downes (Master Chief) and Jen Taylor (Cortana).
Further details on the studio’s next projects will be shown on the Main Stage, but there will also be a further “deep dive” panel on the Community Stage.
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Last year, developer 343 Industries announced it was rebranding as Halo Studios and is working on multiple new games for the franchise. It shared a video titled A New Dawn, which included a look at Project Foundry: an experiment into how Halo games will look using Unreal Engine 5.
“It’s fair to say that our intent is that the majority of what we showcased in Foundry is expected to be in projects which we are building, or future projects,” Halo Studios boss Pierre Hintze said at the time.
Until now, the studio has been using its own Slipspace engine. Digital Foundry stated the change to UE5 could provide “a seismic shift in presentation and development”.
The latest HaloWC blog post on Halo Waypoint doesn’t specify anything on these new projects, but Halo fans won’t want to miss the announcements.
The blog reads: “Back in June we let the community know that we’d be continuing the conversation from last year’s HaloWC and the ‘A New Dawn’ video and sharing more about what we’ve been working on. Like last year we’ll be on the Main Stage to talk about it but this year we’ve also got a ‘deep dive’ panel planned for the Community Stage that you won’t want to miss.”
The last Halo game released was Halo Infinite in 2021, which saw the Xbox’s flagship shooter move to a semi-open world. While it was received positively, player numbers for its multiplayer mode have since plummeted.
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