XBOX’s 25th anniversary has arrived in Candy Crush Saga. Out now, the Game On! Season brings together Halo, Fallout, Sea of Thieves, Forza, DOOM, Banjo-Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro for four weeks of collectible pins and some very familiar music with a distinctly Candy Crush sound.
For anyone who’s spent years with these games, there’s plenty to recognize. But putting them in the Candy Kingdom meant working out which details to keep, which to play with.
At the center of the season is an XBOX 25 pin collection. Players earn pins as they progress through Candy Crush Saga levels, collecting characters and moments from across all eight franchises. Look out for Master Chief’s helmet, DOOM’s Cacodemon and Crash Bandicoot’s Dr. Neo Cortex, alongside Candy Crush characters getting into costume.
The teams behind those worlds worked with King on the designs. For Halo, that meant finding room for both the franchise’s most recognizable armor and the personalities of the characters wearing it.
“Halo’s music is such an iconic part of the franchise, and seeing it ‘candified’ into something playful and unexpected, while still being unmistakably Halo, was a lot of fun,” Corrine Robinson, Sr. Halo Franchise Manager, explains. “We took the same approach with the pins: start with the Candy Crush characters and bring in some of the most recognizable elements of Halo. Tiffi in pink Mjolnir armor, topped off with her signature bow, was a perfect Spartan mash-up, while Dachs in Grunt armor quickly became my personal favorite.
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