Following on from a report final week that supplied up quite a few particulars a few deliberate Halo: Fight Advanced remake or remaster that’s at present within the works, new particulars have appeared which appear to substantiate precisely what studios are engaged on the challenge.
Reb’s Gaming, a small however dependable Halo reporter, has adopted up on his final video wherein he defined a supply had given him a number of particulars in regards to the lengthy rumoured remaster/remake of Bungie’s iconic first Halo recreation. Not solely will it change the gameplay by together with a dash possibility, however additionally it is working on two recreation engines.
Within the first video, he defined a second group was working alongside Halo Studios, however that the supply had requested him to not point out the identify of the second studio. In his latest video, Reb explains that he agreed to this, with one stipulation: if he may corroborate the identify of the studio with different sources, he would report. Effectively, he has.
Reb says he has confirmed that the studio is Virtous Abstraction, a Netherlands-based group that was purchased by Virtous – the corporate behind the current The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered – in late 2024/early 2025. Virtous Abstraction, previously simply Abstraction, has a formidable observe document of serving to ship over 60 titles, together with Halo: The Grasp Chief Assortment. Moreover, on their web site they publically record Halo Studios as one in every of their present companions.
Now, this does must be taken with a pinch of salt. Reb mentions within the video that each of his sources, one in every of which is MintBlitz, a well-known Halo content material creator, heard their data from different individuals. Within the solid of MintBlitz, a fan despatched him a screenshot that seemingly confirmed a studio within the Netherlands was trying to rent builders with data of Halo: Attain recreation engine, the exact same engine that’s reportedly getting used alongside Unreal Engine 5 to develop the remake. The opposite supply for Reb claims to have talked to an Abstraction worker.
Neither supply is especially robust then, however the data has been backed up by the parents at XboxEra, who say: “On our half, we are able to independently affirm that the report on growth companions is correct, as is the hybrid engine strategy being taken. It’s vital to notice that Halo Studios is the lead on the challenge”
Chances are high, we are going to know for positive by the top of this month. Halo Studios has confirmed that it plans on discussing what’s has been engaged on, citing a number of tasks, on the Halo World Championship on October 24-26.
