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Halo To Get Anime Treatment, New "Portal" Coming

Halo Legends to be all Animatrix, but Halo. Halo Waypoint to be all things Halo.


Toei's take on the Chief. 
Toei's take on the Chief. 
Microsoft took some time out of today's busy Comic-Con schedule to announce a bit of new Halo news. For starters, there's Halo Legends, which will be a collection of animated shorts produced by various anime studios, including Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production IG, STUDIO4*C, and Toei. The collection will see a physical release through Warner Home Video, though it's a safe bet that you'll be able to acquire it all digitally, as well. All of this will be overseen by 343 Industries, the new name for Microsoft's internal Halo team.

That team is also working on a new online presence for the Halo franchise called Halo Waypoint. This world of Halo is billed as "a new destination for Halo fans on Xbox Live" and will offer multiple types of content, including behind-the-scenes videos, podcasts, trailers, and screenshots. It'll also have some sort of career system that sounds like it ties together your performance across all Halo games. This might be where you pipe up and say "hey, Bungie already does that." But since Bungie's not the only company out there doing Halo stuff anymore, it makes sense for Microsoft to put forth its own "destination." We'll have to wait and see if this falls on the "fancy web site" or "like PlayStation Home but with more space marines" side of things, but remember that back in April a job listing popped up looking for an engineer to build all of this stuff, and that listing specifically mentioned consoles, the web, and mobile devices. So expect Waypoint to be just about everywhere when it launches later this year.
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