With Halo switching from Slipstream to Unreal Engine, we asked some developers what the reasons might be for this change and how it might benefit a developmental process.

Halo is moving to Unreal Engine 5. Here’s the topline from 343 but…not 343, as along with this announcement is a rebrand to “Halo Studios”:

Halo has been struggling for decades. Not dying, but certainly struggling. And one of the clear reasons for the franchise's fall off since Halo 3 is that Xbox has been losing the console war. There just aren't enough players out there on Xbox for Halo to meaningfully compete with non-exclusives like Call of Duty.