NEXT HALO x UNREAL ENGINE 5 OFFICIAL REVEAL = A NEW DAWN with Halo Studios

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343 Industries is officially switching to Unreal Engine 5 and the developer is now called Halo Studios. Anyone who had doubts about the future of the Halo franchise can start their week with some good news. The developer has now officially confirmed the switch to the latest Unreal Engine 5, meaning that the in-house Slipspace Engine appears to be history for the time being. In addition, several Halo projects have been confirmed that are being developed at Halo Studios using the Unreal Engine. The developers also talked about the next chapter for #Halo in this new video.   JOIN THE XBOXVIEWTV COMMUNITY  Twitter ► https://twitter.com/xboxviewtv  Facebook ► https://facebook.com/xboxviewtv  YouTube ► http://www.youtube.com/xboxviewtv  Dailymotion ► https://dailymotion.com/xboxviewtv  Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/xboxviewtv  Website ► https://xboxviewtv.com   Note: The A New Dawn #Trailer is courtesy of Halo Studios. All Rights Reserved. The https://amzo.in are with a purchase nothing changes for you, but you support our work. #XboxViewTV publishes game news and about Xbox and PC games and hardware.

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00:00HALO

00:03Chris Matthews, take one, mark.

00:06This is Casey Wu, take one, mark.

00:09I was told that I can just be my authentic self, Chris.

00:12For six years, I don't want to be in front of a camera anymore.

00:15There's so much to do and so much fun to be had when you play Halo

00:19that I feel like I never run out of things to do.

00:22I love intricate stories that take place across lots of different worlds,

00:26have lots of different meaningful characters.

00:28What made Halo successful at the beginning?

00:31What is the legacy of Halo and what's the soul that we want to bring forward

00:34and what's the craft of making Halo games?

00:36And how do we set our studio at best to go deliver on that?

00:40We knew we had to make a change in order to take us into the future.

00:44When I first heard about Halo moving to Unreal Engine,

00:47my first thought was, this is going to be a really hard secret to keep.

00:50I think fans are going to be excited about the future of Halo

00:54because of the possibilities that are afforded us by using Unreal.

00:59Before, we really had to split our focus in thinking about building an engine,

01:04supporting it, being really kind of a tech company and a studio at the same time.

01:08Since we've made the change to shift to UE,

01:12we can bring Halo forward in ways that people have never seen before

01:16while still being true to what Halo is.

01:19The founding project was an effort to show ourselves

01:23how far we can push things using Unreal 5.

01:26Our new studio art director, Chris, came to me and said,

01:29hey, I have this crazy idea.

01:31He said, hey, there's this thing called Project Foundry that I want to do.

01:34Let's make it happen.

01:36Foundry specifically is based around the same concept of the foundry in Halo lore.

01:43It's the place where Halo rings are born.

01:46It's not a game. It's a research project for our studio

01:50so we can prepare ourselves for the next steps of making Halo games.

02:15The original Halo franchise was a graphic showcase.

02:19It was best in class.

02:20That's what Halo was when it first was released

02:22and that's what Halo needs to be again.

02:32So once Project Foundry had been approved,

02:34we took the entire creative team and we ideated on three locations,

02:40something old, something new, and something really alien.

02:43We had the Pacific Northwest, which is sort of traditional Halo biome.

02:47We were trying to shove as much foliage in there as humanly possible

02:51to make it really feel like you're on a hike in the Cascades.

02:55The Coldlands, which was the second biome that we took on,

02:58it was more of a technical showcase where we could play with shaders,

03:02we could play with deformable landscapes and terrains.

03:06Unreal affords us more opportunity than we've ever had in the past.

03:10You know, on the surface it might just look all like snow,

03:13but how many layers of things combine to really give that winter look?

03:19And then our third biome was the Blightlands,

03:21which is any land that's been completely taken over by the Flood.

03:26I wanted to give our team the opportunity to really express an alien world,

03:31a really alien world, taking something way further

03:34than they may have actually done in previous Halo games.

03:38What's impressed me about watching the Halo team work in Unreal

03:41is how beautiful everything looks, how incredible the environments look.

03:45I don't think we've seen anything quite like it in Unreal Engine before.

03:48Fortunately, we have a studio that's really passionate about Halo,

03:51about the look and the feel, and I think there's a lot of hunger

03:55to really collaborate, to move forward together.

03:58Foundry was an initiative that touched on every part of the creative process,

04:02everything from concept art, VFX, characters, vehicles, and weapons

04:07to make the future games of Halo.

04:09Creating an asset, taking this design,

04:12now we can really dig into material foundations.

04:15What is it actually made of? How is it physically accurate to the world?

04:20Now we get to take all the wonderful legacy assets that we have,

04:24bring them to life, and bring them to today's standards.

04:29We are really excited to be not just working on multiple projects,

04:34but also expanding our studio.

04:36As a lifelong Halo player, I think the game's only going to get better

04:39when we get those new, unique perspectives,

04:41and people bring in their expertise and passion for the Halo franchise.

04:46We are looking for new talent as the projects that we're working on

04:50kind of get further and further into their development cycles.

04:53It is great to be part of a team that's so passionate about Halo

04:56It is great to be part of a team that's growing,

04:58because you can kind of see that force multiplied

05:00as people come in and take on challenges, and you can do more.

05:04Imagine a place where you have the commitment

05:06that this is what we want to do, Halo games,

05:09and create those experiences,

05:11and you can express your talent, your creativity,

05:15and your professional ambitions in that place.

05:18We're looking for designers, we're looking for artists,

05:20we're looking for engineers.

05:22It feels like a new beginning for the studio in a lot of ways,

05:25and I think that's pretty rare.

05:28And I think we arrived now at a point where

05:30you see the beginnings of people

05:32to start to believe in the process.

05:35There's so much momentum that we have right now,

05:38and focus and clarity on not just what we're building,

05:40but why we're building, and kind of this next phase of Halo.

05:45The worlds that we're building, the stories that we're going after.

05:50The potential at Halo right now is huge.

05:54Halo Infinite was the last remnants of how we made Halo games in the past.

05:59That was our recipe, and what we're doing right now,

06:01we're changing that recipe.

06:24Halo Infinite

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