Halo (franchise)

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Halo is an American military science fiction video game series and media franchise, originally developed by Bungie and currently managed and developed by Activision and Halo Studios (previously 343 Industries), part of Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios. The series launched in November 2001 with the first-person shooter video game Halo: Combat Evolved and its tie-in novel, The Fall of Reach. The latest installment, Halo: Campaign Evolved, a remake of the original Combat Evolved campaign newly powered by Unreal Engine 5, was released in July 2026. Spinoffs include real-time strategy and twin-stick shooter games. Bungie began as a developer of computer games for the Macintosh platform, making games including Marathon 2: Durandal (1995). After the company was acquired by Microsoft in 2000, their in-progress game, which started life as a real-time strategy game, became Halo: Combat Evolved, a first-person shooter and exclusive launch title for Microsoft's Xbox video game console. Following the success...

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