{"id":87658,"date":"2026-08-17T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87658"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:43:42","slug":"a-call-of-duty-studio-could-work-on-halo-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87658","title":{"rendered":"A Call Of Duty Studio Could Work On Halo, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard, one of the first things people theorized was that the company would have one of Activision&#8217;s numerous Call of Duty studios work on Halo. That already happened, according to a new report, and though it hasn&#8217;t led to anything yet, that could change down the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rn8kqiM75KU\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rn8kqiM75KU\">According to Rebs Gaming<\/a>, who has accurately reported on unannounced Halo news before, Microsoft enlisted Sledgehammer Games to help develop a Halo multiplayer game. <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1852041\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HaloInfinite_312030.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1852041\" \/>Halo Infinite <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sledgehammer reportedly began work on a prototype in June of this year, but whatever this was ended up getting canceled in July&#8211;only basic gameplay elements like player movement were said to have been tested. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That doesn&#8217;t mean the idea of a Call of Duty studio working on a Halo game is gone forever, however. The report said, &#8220;Microsoft is still exploring the proposition, but they have not greenlit anything yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i7tIWMgwVtI&amp;t=9161s\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i7tIWMgwVtI&amp;t=9161s\">Windows Central reporter Jez Corden said<\/a> he heard a &#8220;crazy rumor&#8221; that Microsoft &#8220;might put Halo under Activision.&#8221; He said this wasn&#8217;t a sure thing, but it could be part of a larger restructuring to help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard, one of the first things people theorized was that the company would have one of Activision&#8217;s numerous Call of Duty studios work on Halo. That already happened, according to a new report, and though it hasn&#8217;t led to anything yet, that could change down the road. According to Rebs Gaming,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":87660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87661,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87658\/revisions\/87661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}