Halo is a multi-billion dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant. The Covenant are led by their religious leaders, The Prophets, and worship an ancient civilization known as the Forerunners, who perished in combat with the parasitic Flood. Many of the games center on the experiences of Master Chief John-117, a cybernetically enhanced human super-soldier, and his artificial intelligence (AI) companion, Cortana. The term "Halo" refers to Halo megastructures: large, habitable ringed structures, similar to the Orbitals in Iain M Banks' Culture novels, or author Larry Niven's Ringworld.
The series has been praised as being among the best first-person shooters on a video game console, and is considered the Microsoft Xbox's "killer app". This has led to the term "Halo killer" being used to describe console games that aspire, or are considered, to be better than Halo. Fueled by the success of Halo: Combat Evolved, and immense marketing campaigns from publisher Microsoft, its sequels went on to break various sales records. Halo 3 sold more than US$170 million worth of copies in the first twenty-four hours of release, breaking the record set by Halo 2 three years prior. Halo: Reach, in turn, broke the record set by Halo 3, selling $200 million USD worth of copies on its first day of release. The games have sold over 46 million copies worldwide, and all Halo merchandise has grossed almost $3 billion.
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Halo: Spartan Assault (2013)
Developed by Vanguard Games, 343 Industries for WIN, , X360, XOne
Halo: Spartan Assault is a top-down third person shooter in the Halo series. It is being developed by 343 Industries and Vanguard Entertainment and will be published by Microsoft Studios for Windows 8 platforms (including Windows 8 Phones, Tablets and PCs). The game is expected to release July, 2013.4.375 -
Halo 4 (2012)
Developed by 343 Industries for X360
Halo 4 is a first-person shooter video game and the eighth installment in the Halo franchise, developed exclusively for the Xbox 360. Halo 4 is intended to be the first of a new trilogy of Halo series games, named the "Reclaimer Trilogy".4.345 -
Halo 3: ODST (2009)
Developed by Bungie Software for X360
Halo 3: ODST is a shooter game developed by Bungie Software and released on Xbox 360.4.045 -
Halo Wars (2009)
Developed by Ensemble Studios for X360
Halo Wars is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. It was released in Japan and Australia on February 26, 2009, in PAL territories on February 27, and in North America on March 3. The game is set in the science fiction universe of the Halo series in the year 2531, 20 years before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. The player leads human soldiers aboard the warship Spirit of Fire in an effort to stop an ancient fleet of ships from falling into the hands of the genocidal alien Covenant.3.925
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