Saturday, May 17, 2014

Microsoft announces Halo 5 and Steven Spielberg 'Halo' TV series

Say hello to 'Halo 5'
Say hello to 'Halo 5'.
Steven Spielberg's Advice
Halo fans can earn their wings on a new and updated version of the game, but not until November 2015. Microsoft announced of Friday that Halo 5: Guardians will be released 18 short months from now, delivering an Xbox One version of the humans-versus-aliens first-person shooter franchise that's sold more than 50 million copies since the first Halo was released in 2001.
Fall 2015 is also when we'll see the premiere of the live-action "Halo" TV series produced by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg. Well, we'll see the "Halo" TV series only if we own an Xbox One. The show is slated to stream as an Xbox One exclusive, just as "House of Cards" is a Netflix exclusive.
But the video game is the big moneymaker in this franchise, and so Halo 5: Guardians will be released in November 2015. Details are sparse for this video game that's still a year and a half away, but Microsoft indicates the action picks up right where 2013's Halo 4 left off.
"I’m happy to reveal that Halo 5: Guardians, the next installment in the legendary saga of the Master Chief, will launch on Xbox One in fall of 2015," 343 Industries manager Bonnie Ross said in a press release. "In the tradition of every Halo game since its debut in 2001, it is a massive and exciting project."
Technically, Halo is produced by 343 Industries. But that company is developed and owned by Microsoft.
There is not much information yet about Halo 5. The cover of the game is seen above, and Halo Waypoint has released one piece of Halo 5 concept art.
This will be the first Halo game for the new Xbox One console, and the upgrades will be significant. The game will run at 60 frames per second, doubling the 30-frames-per-second rate of Halo 4.
"Making a Halo game that runs at 60 frames per second, on dedicated servers, with the scope, features and scale we’ve been dreaming of for more than a decade, is non-trivial," Ross said, explaining why the game won't be out for another year and a half.
We already knew that Spielberg would produce the "Halo" TV series, but we now know that's not coming until 2015. The project was rumored to be going to the premium channel Showtime, but no deal has materialized. The "Halo" TV series currently looks to remain an Xbox One exclusive,
There will surely be more Halo 5 news forthcoming at the E3 Expo in early June.

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