Halo Online

April 26, 2018

Microsoft Puts An End To Halo: Online Mod

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Microsoft has ordered a mod team to stop work on a Halo: Online modification that essentially allowed users to play Halo 3 multiplayer matches on PC. The mod itself is an effort by the ElDewrito team to create a workable and feature-rich Halo game for Windows. It has been in development since official work on Halo: Online, a Russian-only port of Halo 3’s online offerings, was halted in 2016. While they didn’t send a cease-and-desist letter to the creators, they did inform them that they should stop work on the mod while the publisher investigates further to make sure its intellectual property it not being misused. “While we are humbled and inspired to see the amount of passion poured into this project, the fact remains that it’s built upon Microsoft-owned assets that were never lawfully released or authorised for this purpose,” 343 said in a statement. “As this project reverberated across the community, our team took a step back to assess the materials and explore possible avenues, while Microsoft, like

August 28, 2016

Halo Online Has Been Cancelled

Jeffrey Harris Halo Online, jeffrey harris, pc, theparanoidgamer.com, xbox 360, xbox360 0

If you were hoping for a wider release of Halo Online, the kibosh has been put on it. It has been cancelled in its early alpha phase. Per Gamasutra, it looks like Microsoft has cancelled the free-to-play online shooter Halo Online. The game had not yet been fully released in the states. It was previously released as an experiment and was only launched in Russia and only in an alpha test phase. The cancellation was announced on the game’s Russian VK social media page. The project was only quietly announced in 2015. It was reported as a collaboration between Halo: Master Chief Collection’s Saber Interactive and the Russian publisher Innova Systems. It seems concepts like this might work elsewhere. I recall there is a Call of Duty Online game that’s available in China. It doesn’t seem there is any plans for Call of Duty Online to ever get a US release. Though I wonder if the will was there to bring Halo to the western hemisphere at some point.