Halo 5: Guardians announced

343 Industries and Microsoft have formally revealed the next chapter in the hugely popular Halo franchise, Halo 5: Guardians.

“Making a Halo game that runs at 60 frames per second, on dedicated servers, with the scope, features and scale we’ve been dreaming of for more than a decade, is non-trivial. It’s a task that we, at 343 Industries, are taking very seriously to ensure we deliver the Halo game that fans deserve, and a game that is built from the ground up for Xbox One,” said 343 Industries.

Halo 5: Guardians is a bigger effort than Halo 4. That applies to the content and scope of the game, as well as the technology in what’s now a brand new and more powerful engine. Certainly there are some core elements carried over from prior games, but the developers say they invested a huge effort in retooling the tech to take full advantage of the Xbox One’s hardware and ecosystem to create worlds and experiences worthy of next-gen.

A full reveal of the game is expected at Microsoft’s E3 2014 media briefing on June 9th. Halo 5: Guardians is expected to arrive exclusively on Xbox One in 2015.