Microsoft Has Six-Year Plan For Halo News

Former Bungie man and now Microsoft's Creative Director of 343 Industries (its dedicated Halo division), Frank O'Connor has stated that there is a six-year plan in place for the future of the Halo franchise that will see the game series' canon branch out across action figures, books, videos, and comics.

"We do have a plan that goes out at least six years," O'Connor told USA Today. "Eventually, it will become very apparent that there is a plan for the way the canon all ties together and the way the comic books and the novels all tie together."

While O'Connor would only mention next year's Halo: Reach project - a prequel to the original Halo - as an example of the videogames that are part of this plan, he did nonetheless hint that we haven't yet seen the last of the Master Chief.

"I think that [his] fate, Cortana's fate and the identity of that giant, dark planet at the ending [on the game's hardest skill level] - that's a spoiler - are probably big mysteries that would be irritating if they were just cliff-hangers."

There's even hope for the beached Halo film as well apparently, with O'Connor noting that, "We're being very careful to pick the right time and the right partner."