Bungie regained its independence in 2007, releasing additional Halo games through 2010.
The latest main game, Halo Infinite, was released in late 2021 as a free to play beta, and then had the campaign release later that year.Ĭombat Evolved started life as a real-time strategy game, then became a third-person shooter, and finally a first-person shooter releasing as an exclusive on Microsoft's new Xbox video game console after Bungie was acquired by the company. The series launched in 2001 with the first-person shooter video game Halo: Combat Evolved and its tie-in novel, The Fall of Reach. Halo is a military science fiction media franchise, originally created and developed by Bungie and currently managed and developed by 343 Industries, part of Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios.