Microsoft looking for new Halo avenues

Other new genres ripe for exploration

Halo Wars producer and franchise boss Jason Pace has been speaking with Eurogamer.net ahead of the RTS title's launch, telling the website that Microsoft are hoping to take Halo into yet more new genres.

The series did of course start life as an FPS series, before Ensemble's RTS stepped into the limelight. We also know that that a Halo MMO was axed last year.

Pace and Microsoft are keen to take the IP into new areas, still: "We tend to view the franchise side of Halo as an entertainment property, and something that we hope to expand in many different directions: both through additional genres of gaming and additional ways to tell the story that may not be game-related at all.

"So I think it's fair to say we’re always looking for new opportunities, new genres to tell the story in. And whenever we find a great fit we'll pursue it."

Pace wouldn't be drawn on Peter Jackson's long rumoured Halo project.

By Luke Guttridge