Halo Studios: History and Key Facts

Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) is an American video game developer based in Redmond, Washington, part of Xbox Game Studios. Headed by Pierre Hintze, the studio is responsible for the Halo science fiction franchise, and develops Halo projects internally, and in collaboration with other studios. The studio was created in 2007 to oversee the franchise after original Halo developer Bungie regained its independence from Microsoft, and originally named after the character 343 Guilty Spark.

After co-developing downloadable content for Halo: Reach, Bungie's final Halo game, 343 Industries released Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and Halo 4, the latter starting the studio's "Reclaimer Saga" of the mainline games, which further encompassed Halo 5: Guardians (2015) and concluded with Halo Infinite in 2021. The studio rebranded in October 2024, and in September 2026, Halo Studios experienced layoffs of 268 roles and subsequently had management and ownership of the Halo game series transferred to Activision, with the intent of keeping Halo studios as a support studio for live service components of Halo games like Halo Infinite and Halo: MCC.

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