Journalist Zach Laidlaw shared comments from Nvidia’s spokesperson in his Medium blog post, which is as follows: “Regardless of the outcome of the acquisition, the agreement between [Nvidia] and Microsoft and Xbox PC games will continue to advance.”

Nvidia signed a 10-year agreement with Microsoft in February this year to introduce 1,500 games such as “Halo”, “Minecraft”, and “Elden Ring” developed by game studios including Bethesda, Mojang Studios and Activision into GeForce Now.

According to reports, Xbox Game Studios PC games available on third-party stores such as Steam or Epic will be the first games to be playable through GeForce NOW. The partnership also marks the first games to hit the Windows Store, and Nvidia says support will begin soon.

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The future of Halo has been somewhat up in the air since layoffs were announced on Jan. 18. Halo: Infinite launched strongly at the end of 2021, but as time went on, players became frustrated with the progress of the multiplayer, with planned features such as online campaign co-op and Forge (which finally launched in November) repeatedly delayed, and no sign of new campaign content on the horizon.

The 343 had issued a statement to continue developing the Halo game after the layoffs. on January 21, the studio’s head Pierre Hintze tweeted from his Halo account, saying, “Halo and Sergeant Major are here to stay. 343 Industries continues to develop Halo now and in the future. including the epic story, multiplayer, and more of the things that make Halo great.” And Matt Boody, who heads up Xbox Game Studios, said in an interview with Bloomberg, “343 will continue as the in-house developer of Halo and as the home of Halo.”

But it’s unclear when we’ll see the next game in the series, so it’s hard to know exactly how involved 343 will be with the series in the future. For example, the studio has partnered with Austin-based Certain Affinity on a combat game codenamed Tatanka, but that game “could go in a different direction.

Bloomberg says that Tatanka will apparently also be developed on the Unreal engine, and that future Halo games “will also explore using” the Unreal engine. If true, the change marks another major game developer moving to the Unreal engine, with “The Witcher” and “Cyberpunk” developer CD Projekt Red announcing in March a “multi-year strategic partnership” with Epic Games to use the Unreal engine, and in November, Epic In November, Epic said more than half of all announced next-gen games would be made in the Unreal engine.

343 is also apparently not working on new story content for Halo: Infinite, which seems ironic for a game that was once called “the beginning of the next decade for Halo” and named “Infinite. Instead, the developers are “working on prototypes in the Unreal Engine and coming up with ideas for a new Halo game.

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Other than that, Flying Wild Hog had a similar experience. They abandoned their homemade Roadhog engine and will switch to Unreal Engine for future game productions.

Judging from the experience of “Halo: Infinite” (severe image quality and optimization problems), the Slipspace engine will come to an end, and the leading developer of this engine also left 343 in September of this year. The next Halo game might actually be developed in Unreal Engine 5.

343 Industries has not yet commented on this rumor, and we will continue to monitor it.

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