343 Industries gives way to Halo Studios and announces new projects

343 sectorscreators of the latest installments of the star Xbox franchise, suffered a rebranding (name ch ange). From now on, the creators of Halo Infinite

(which will receive a third person mode), among other things, will now bear the name of Halo Studios. This, in the words of studio director Pierre Hintze, in order to “start a new chapter” in the franchise.

“If you really look at Halo, there were two very different chapters, Chapter 1 – Bungie. Chapter 2 – 343 Industries.» To which he adds: “Now I think we have an audience that wants more. So we will not only try to improve development efficiency, but Let’s change the recipe for how we make Halo games. This is why we are starting a new chapter today.“

Halo Studios is already getting to work, with Unreal Engine 5

These words could remain just that, words. However, when we know that the studio will abandon its Slipspace graphics engine, created for Halo Infiniteto start working with Unreal Engine 5we realize that they are very serious with this intention of “starting a new chapter”.

But it doesn’t stop there, and the fact is that the rebranding of the study focused on the Microsoft saga is not the only thing they had to say. This announcement is accompanied by revelation of new projects Halo those they are already working on

although nothing is yet known beyond what we can obtain from a series of images that they wanted to share with players, in addition to revealing that has been working for 2 years on a large technical demo called Foundry Project. Of course you have the images here.

According to Elizabeth van Wyck, Director of Operations, Halo Studios will open its ears even more to back that players provide, even in the early stages of each title’s development: “We are looking for earlier and broader feedback from our players. We started this with The Master Chief Collection and continued with Halo Infinite, and we want to do it even more in our next projects.

» Let us recall the importance of the actor in the development of a project: “At the end of the day, It’s not just about how we rate it, but also how our players rate it.“

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