Halo
The franchise that defined the Xbox, Halo contains some of the most popular games ever released. The Halo FPS titles are revered for their excellent gamepad control and high-quality online multiplayer. The franchise now contains novels, soda tie-ins, an RTS spin-off, toys, and more.
Halo To Get Anime Treatment, New "Portal" Coming
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.
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.
"Microsoft's internal Halo team"? Is this, like, some type of PR and advertising team that's working the merchandising and public face of Halo...or is there something that Bungie hasn't said yet?
Considering the fantastic anime studios involved I don't think we need to worry about style.
Just got to hope that 343 Industries do a good job with the writing.
Can't wait :-).
" It's a portal to the world of Halo, people. Not "Portal" portal. Hmm. Maybe I'll change that headline to avoid further disappointment. "Please. I was all excited and then thoroughly dismayed. :(
HALO ANIME !? I don't no what emotion I should be feeling right now. It's like if the devil and god made a new age rock group.
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