Infinite brings the Banished from Halo Wars 2 into the mainline series while introducing another threat in the Endless, an ancient race of beings until now imprisoned by the Forerunners. The Endless are represented in the Infinite campaign by a new character named the Harbinger. Fritz, Ben (October 31, 2006). "No home for 'Halo' pic". Variety. Archived from the original on December 12, 2007 . Retrieved October 20, 2007.

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Zimmerman, Conrad (August 2, 2010). "Master Chief joins the Atari age in Halo 2600". Destructoid . Retrieved March 21, 2013. Halo Wars is the series’ earliest-set game, taking place 21 years before the start of Halo: Reach and Halo: Combat Evolved. Halo Wars is set during the early days of the Human-Covenant War, a conflict started by the alien Covenant to preserve the false foundations on which it built its religion. Halo Wars follows the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) forces aboard the Spirit of Fire and the Red Team of Spartan-II supersoldiers as they take the fight to the Covenant across the planets Harvest and Arcadia, as well as the Forerunner installation Shield 0459 (aka Trove). New Halo Trilogy from Tor Books". Halo.Xbox.com. Microsoft. April 6, 2009. Archived from the original on May 15, 2009 . Retrieved July 24, 2009.However, while less demanding games such as Braid and N+ perform flawlessly, the more CPU-heavy titles do struggle, with Halo: Reach and Gears of War: Judgement singled out as games that suffer in the emulation process. Halo is a military science fiction media franchise, originally created and developed by Bungie and currently managed and developed by 343 Industries, part of Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios. The series launched in 2001 with the first-person shooter video game Halo: Combat Evolved and its tie-in novel, The Fall of Reach. The latest main game, Halo Infinite, was released in late 2021 as a free to play beta, [1] and then had the campaign release later that year. The Xbox 360 is a seventh generation game console and is the successor to Microsoft's Xbox video game console, developed in co-operation with IBM, ATI, Samsung Electronics and SiS. Information on the console first came through viral marketing campaigns, and it was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005, with detailed launch and game information divulged later that month at the prominent Electronic Entertainment Expo. It was released on November 22, 2005. O'Connor, Frank (April 25, 2008). "Bungie Weekly Update 04/25/08". Bungie. Archived from the original on June 11, 2009 . Retrieved April 23, 2009.

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