Halo 5: Guardians is Coming to Xbox One in 2015

<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;61890" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-61890" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignleft"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103500&sol;bonnie-ross&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-61890 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103500&sol;bonnie-ross&period;jpg" alt&equals;"bonnie ross" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"224" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-61890" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Bonnie Ross&comma; the general manager of 343 Industries&comma; first announced Halo 5 at E3 2013&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Microsoft has just announced the next instalment in the massive Halo franchise&period; Halo 5&colon; Guardians will be the first original Halo title for the new generation and will be released in the fall of 2015&period; The game is developed by 343 Industries who made Halo 4 and took over the franchise from after Bungie left in 2011&period; The announcement was made by 343 Industries&&num;8217&semi; general manager&comma; Bonnie Ross&period; In a statement on the official Xbox website&comma; Ross wrote that&comma; &&num;8221&semi;Halo 5&colon; Guardians is a bigger effort than Halo 4&period; That applies to the content and scope of the game&comma; as well as the technology in what’s now a brand new and more powerful engine&&num;8221&semi;&period; &&num;8221&semi;Any time you transition to a new platform&comma; there is the opportunity to look at things with a new perspective&period; For us at 343 Industries&comma; the launch of the Xbox One was an opportunity to think about what stories we wanted to tell&comma; how to tell them&comma; and how best to push the Halo franchise to showcase the platform&&num;8221&semi; she said&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Halo 5 was initially revealed at Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s E3 press conference last year&period; The IP is incredibly important to Microsoft and the company know how vital Halo 5 will be in driving sales of Xbox One&period; &&num;8221&semi;In the past&comma; Halo games have pushed the Xbox forward&comma; showcasing the console and its ecosystem in entertaining and innovative ways&&num;8221&semi; Ross said&period; &&num;8221&semi;Making a Halo game that runs at 60 frames per second&comma; on dedicated servers&comma; with the scope&comma; features and scale we’ve been dreaming of for more than a decade&comma; is non-trivial&period;  It’s a task that we<strong>&comma;<&sol;strong> at 343 Industries<strong>&comma;<&sol;strong> are taking very seriously to ensure we deliver the Halo game that fans deserve&comma; and a game that is built from the ground up for Xbox One&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Ross also hinted that Halo 5&colon; Guardians won&&num;8217&semi;t be the only game in the franchise to come to Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s new console&period; Ross ended her post by saying&comma; &&num;8221&semi;many fans noted that I was very deliberate with my phrasing on stage at E3 last year&period; I spoke about a <em style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3a3a3a&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<&sol;em>journey&comma;” rather than a destination – and that journey definitely begins in 2014 with a giant leap&comma; rather than one small step&period; We’ll give you much more information about our plans for <em style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3a3a3a&semi;">this<&sol;em> year at the Xbox E3 2014 Media Briefin<a style&equals;"color&colon; &num;2dab11&semi; text-decoration&colon; underline&semi;" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;news&period;xbox&period;com&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;xbox-xbox-at-e3-2014" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi; text-decoration&colon; underline&semi;">g<&sol;span><&sol;a><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3a3a3a&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"> on June 9&comma; and we’re confident that Halo fans will be pretty excited about the special plans we have in store&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span>&period; <span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">This seems to be hinting that the long rumoured Halo 2 remake will be revealed at this year&&num;8217&semi;s E3 conference&period;<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3a3a3a&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"> We&&num;8217&semi;ll bring you all the details on Halo 5&colon; Guardians as they emerge&period; <&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;news&period;xbox&period;com&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;games-halo-journey-announcement">Xbox&period;com<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;