Halo Studios to Give 'Deep Dive' Panel on the Future of Halo on October 24 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 October 2025 / 2,190 Views
Halo Studios announced it will be hosting a "deep dive" panel that will focus on the future of the Halo franchise at Halo World Championships 2025 next month.
The developer will also have a segment on the Main Stage, which will be followed by the "deep dive" panel on the Community Stage. Both will be happening on Friday, October 24 in the early afternoon.
"Back in June we let the community know that we’d be continuing the conversation from last year’s HaloWC and the 'A New Dawn' video and sharing more about what we’ve been working on. Like last year we’ll be on the Main Stage to talk about it but this year we’ve also got a “deep dive” panel planned for the Community Stage that you won’t want to miss.
"Both the segment on the Main Stage and the panel on the Community Stage will be going down early Friday afternoon on October 24 at HaloWC. Make sure you’re there early so you don’t miss a second!"
The last entry in the Halo series was 2021's Halo Infinite.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
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Cannot wait to see what the next Halo will be
I hope there will be substance. Show gameplay and not just 3 seconds of it.
Most likely Halo MCC coming to PlayStation and a reveal of the rumoured Halo CE remake.
If we’re lucky a very short teaser of Halo 7, but more likely just the former two.
The state of Halo is shameful. I really hope this is good.
I sure wish we were all hanging out face-to-face instead of on a message board. It's so easy to mistake people online. You can't detect sarcasm, you can't hear the tone in their voices, you can't read their eyes or body langue etc. It feels like everyone's always assuming the worst in people. It's exhausting.
Sure, but everything eventually stops being genre defining at some point. It's far from being dead though. Halo Infinite is a great game in it's current form and still gets regular updates. It's gotten some of it's best content this year. MCC is still the best collection of games out there imo.
When Bungie left, I left. Well, not really. I kept clinging onto its corpse, trying as hard as I could to believe that it would come back to life. But it's over. We finished the fight. The story is told. Time to move on.
This lazy explanation is a cop out to not give a proper explanation why it's dead. Bungie isn't the gatekeeper of quality Halo games. Telling others to move on when there is new content and games coming out soon is wild. I get it, you are a purist.
It's not a lazy explanation (that was rude, by the way). It's MY explanation. It' MY story, and why I left. I liked Bungie's trilogy. I did not like 343's games at all. They looked different, they played different, they sounded different, and their stories were not compelling to me.
Imo, the trilogy should have been it. They should have ended it and gone out on a high note. But greed is a thing, and thus… milking a corpse until it’s dust.
If that's the case, then don't tell everyone, "We finished the fight. Time to move on." Being different is not necessarily a bad thing. Difference between us, I can point to the things I dislike about 343 Halo titles, but I can also see the good things they introduced and improved to make the games better. It's not black and white. I grew up playing every game in the series so I understand this as much as anyone.
If they ended with the trilogy, excluding 343 games, we wouldn't have Halo ODST, Halo Reach, Halo Wars 1& 2, which are all great games.
Every long standing franchise is milked at this point. I'm sure you still enjoy certain franchise that are near and dear. I'm not going to stop enjoying something just because it's being milked. If I still find enjoyment, I will keep coming back.
It's objectively true that Halo's relevance within the gaming industry fell off hard after Bungie left. And it's been falling meteorically since then. I mean, we use to get Halo Mountaindew back in the day. MOUNTAIN DEW!
So I didn't feel the need to state that it was my opinion... because the majority of the industry agrees with me. Halo hasn't been the leader of the FPS genre and a pop-culture force since Halo 3. And as an artist that tells stories for a living, my interest lies in the integrity of the story, or art, not whether it can make more money. It's, did it end at its peak? Did it call it quits at a point where it should have, from a cultural point of view, from a popularity point of view, from a story point of view?
The trilogy was amazing, compelling, the best in the entire industry... by far. It has not reached those heights since, and it keeps getting less and less compelling as time goes on (which is backed up by its shrinking popularity and influence) so again, as a story teller, I believe it should have been put down and buried years ago.
Just let bluepoint games remake the first 3
I'm surprised there hasn't been any talk of a remake (or at least a serious remaster) of Halo 3 for its 20th anniversary. I'd rather have that than a CE remake. CE got a decent remaster a decade ago.
Microsoft let forza flourish, yet its been a sad case for gears, halo. Even splinter cell. Yeah some aren't owned by microsoft, but these exclusives made xbox what it is. Even if they were to produce remakes, would be great
