{"id":90664,"date":"2026-10-06T06:18:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90664"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:42:34","slug":"as-halo-moves-to-activision-halo-studios-writers-tease-what-might-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90664","title":{"rendered":"As Halo Moves to Activision, Halo Studios Writers Tease What Might Have Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Following the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/franchise\/halo\">Halo: Campaign Evolved<\/a>, Halo Studios has put out a blog post detailing plans for the future of Master Chief\u2019s story. It\u2019s an interesting look at where the series might have gone, prior to the recent announcement that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/confirmed-microsoft-hands-halo-to-call-of-duty-developer-activision-as-part-of-huge-xbox-studios-shakeup\">Activision is now the shepherd of the Halo series<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-next-halo-game-from-halo-studios-was-reportedly-still-years-away-before-microsoft-handed-the-franchise-to-activision\">The next Halo game was reportedly still years away<\/a>, but the blog post, penned by Halo franchise writer Alex Wakeford, gives us a peek behind the curtain with hints about the studio\u2019s plans, but also an attempt at canonizing a story that\u2019s been told through games, remakes, books, and TV. You can check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.halowaypoint.com\/en-gb\/news\/canon-fodder-heart-and-soell\">blog post<\/a> for its list of retcons and continuity clarifications. <\/p>\n<p>While the majority of the blog was written prior to the Xbox reshuffle, when Halo Studios thought the series was still in its hands, there are addendums written prior to the news breaking. At one point, Wakeford joked that you\u2019ll have to wait until next week to find out more about the Sacristan Order, before dropping a note: \u201cThis joke sure took on new dimensions after last week&#8217;s news.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"halo-games-in-chronological-order\" data-value=\"halo-games-in-chronological-order\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Elsewhere, Wakeford talked about the next novel by Troy Denning, titled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved, Halo Studios has put out a blog post detailing plans for the future of Master Chief\u2019s story. It\u2019s an interesting look at where the series might have gone, prior to the recent announcement that Activision is now the shepherd of the Halo series. The next Halo game was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":90666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90664","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\/90664"}],"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\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90668,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90664\/revisions\/90668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}