Microsoft Teases More Halo News This October

What’s adjacent for Halo? It looks similar fans volition get a further tease this October astatine the Halo World Championship 2025.

In a blog post, Tahir “Tashi” Hasandjekic, Esports Lead for the Halo franchise, suggested fans be the lawsuit October 24-26 successful Seattle to find retired what Halo Studios has been moving on.

During the aforesaid lawsuit past October, Halo developer 343 Industries announced it had changed its sanction to Halo Studios and confirmed aggregate projects were successful the works. In the aforesaid breath, Halo Studios said each its aboriginal games would beryllium developed connected Unreal Engine, leaving down the Slipspace Engine utilized by Halo Infinite.

The announcements were unveiled successful a seven-minute video shown up of the Halo World Championship's expansive finals. This showcased the results of Project Foundry — an experimental task designed to amusement a Halo crippled built utilizing the Unreal Engine — and offered a glimpse astatine a caller opening for Xbox's flagship franchise successful the aftermath of 2021's Halo Infinite.

In the blog post, Tashi referenced past year’s announcements and teased much to travel this October.

“Over the past fewer weeks, there’s been a just magnitude of speculation astir erstwhile and wherever much details mightiness look astir immoderate of the aggregate projects Halo Studios is actively moving on,” Tashi said. “We don’t usually remark connected specified matters, but this clip we privation to participate the chat and stock a small much position for Halo fans who mightiness beryllium connected the obstruction astir whether to be this year’s event.

“Last twelvemonth astatine HaloWC, we premiered ‘A New Dawn’ wherever we talked astir the power to Unreal Engine, gave you a down the scenes look astatine Project Foundry, and debuted our improvement to Halo Studios arsenic we participate a caller section for Halo. For us, ‘A New Dawn’ was conscionable the opening — astatine this year’s HaloWC, we look guardant to continuing the conversation.

“Speculation is ever fun, but if you privation the authoritative scoop connected what Halo Studios has been moving on, you won’t privation to miss this year’s Halo World Championship. We truly anticipation you’ll articulation america successful Seattle this October!”

So, what could Halo Studios person up its sleeve for the announcement? It seems improbable we’ll get a full-blown gameplay uncover for the adjacent large Halo title, but we whitethorn get a much elaborate tech demo showing Halo moving successful Unreal Engine. Earlier this month, Microsoft was reported to beryllium readying a Halo: Combat Evolved remaster for merchandise successful 2026. Perhaps we volition get a look astatine that. The so-far unannounced remaster is seemingly nether information for merchandise connected rival platforms including PlayStation 5.

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