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Halo is a video game series and media franchise created by Bungie and operated by Halo Studios. Since the series began in 2001, there have been several unreleased games. Bungie owned the Halo brand from 2001 to 2010. During this period, Bungie partnered with filmmaker Peter Jackson to produce Halo Chronicles, a narrative-driven episodic game about a human character who slowly merges with alien technology. The Halo film Jackson was producing lost funding in October 2006, and shortly afterward Halo Chronicles was canceled. A Halo massively multiplayer online game was in development by Ensemble Studios, but publisher Microsoft Game Studios canceled the project in 2007 as Ensemble had not received approval to work on such a game. A Nintendo DS Halo game demo was showcased by IGN co-founder Matt Casamassina in 2007, and although some journalists have questioned the game's authenticity, former n-Space developers assert the project's existence, and claim Nintendo stopped development despite Microsoft's approval.
In 2011, Halo Studios—then known as 343 Industries—took ownership of the series. n-Space was brought on to develop a Halo game involving Mega Bloks, a construction set toy. The exact reason for the cancellation in 2013 is unknown, although journalists have speculated Microsoft was concerned that an Xbox 360 exclusive game would have limited appeal. Halo Online was a free-to-play Microsoft Windows multiplayer game exclusive to Russia. Although it did see an early access release, it did not receive an official release before its cancelation in 2016. The most recent known unreleased Halo game was a battle royale game mode for Halo Infinite. Reports indicate that developer Certain Affinity lacked the resources needed to compete with Fortnite Battle Royale and that the game engine was troublesome to work with. Coupled with mass layoffs at 343 in 2023, the game mode was canceled that same year.