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As Halo goes to Activision, fans are worried about this year's Halo Fest and a potential lore reboot from the Call of Duty publisher

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As Halo goes to Activision, fans are worried about this year's Halo Fest and a potential lore reboot from the Call of Duty publisher

"That would be another terrible idea in a string of terrible ideas."

We're now living in a timeline that would have been impossible to comprehend for a grunt-squashing teen in 2007: Activision is making the next Halo game. And, now, fans have questions about the change. Is this year's Halo Fest still happening, despite sweeping layoffs at Halo Studios? Will Activision's new game reboot the lore? Can Master Chief finally, please, catch a break?

"We are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer," Xbox Studios chief Matt Booty wrote in a statement this week as part of the console maker's wide-ranging restructure. "Activision will also be developing the next Halo title, led by a new, purpose-built team that is separate from ongoing development and plans for Call of Duty. A small team at Halo Studios will continue supporting the Halo community and games in-market."

Xbox's restructuring laid off 1,600 workers this summer, with a further 1,600 job cuts planned over the course of the year, but it also rejigged several studios. Obsidian is now part of Bethesda, for example, and Halo is now part of Activision, along with Rare and World's Edge.

It's a dramatic shift for a franchise that was once Xbox's golden goose, and fans are conflicted about what it means for the future of the iconic sci-fi shooter series. One big worry is Activision may reboot the story and throw away lore that's been built up across 25 years - or, perhaps, scrap some of the extended universe lore, as Disney did to Star Wars when it took over that galaxy.


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