Gears of War was another of the great absentees from the event that featured numerous Xbox and Bethesda games.

Halo Infinite is celebrating its fourth season

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The Xbox Games Showcase 2023 became one of the best events of the Summer Game Fest this year. The reappearance of Fable, the reveal of Ubisoft’s Star Wars game, the announcement of Avowed for 2024, a new trailer for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and the great presentation of Starfield were some of the highlights of the live that, rarely following the xbox History, did not feature the Halo sagasomething that Microsoft itself has now explained.

Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s head of games, has explained to The Guardian that the significant growth in the lineup of Xbox’s own studios has caused that once-dominant franchises no longer need to be at every Xbox event. In fact, Gears of War, another successful shooter saga from the company, also missed the event that brought together games from Xbox itself and Bethesda.

“I wouldn’t say Halo is minor, but now we have more than 20 studios”, explains Phil Spencer in the interview. “I’ll go back to the years where I basically had four games: Fable, Forza, Halo, Gears, the four horsemen of the apocalypse. We have many more games now”. However, there is another reason why Halo was absent from the Xbox Game Showcase: restructuring at developer 343 Industries.

“We’ve been pretty public about the leadership change at 343,” Spencer explains. “You can see that on some social networks that [el equipo] they’ve been doing for the seasons, but I don’t want to force them to talk about their long-term vision until they’re ready. I think you’ll see some great things coming”. It should be remembered that 343 Industries lost its head, Bonnie Ross, in September of last year, although the studio’s production director, Pierre Hintze, got off to a good start with the team by reversing the disastrous launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

A Halo with new studies?

Yesterday there was talk of the possibility of the Call of Duty team making new Halo games if Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is closed, although this would depend on the approval of the developer team itself. how will he be halo future And when will we have the first news?

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