Halo has been struggling for decades. Not dying, but certainly struggling. And one of the clear reasons for the franchise's fall off since Halo 3 is that Xbox has been losing the console war. There just aren't enough players out there on Xbox for Halo to meaningfully compete with non-exclusives like Call of Duty.

With Halo switching from Slipstream to Unreal Engine, we asked some developers what the reasons might be for this change and how it might benefit a developmental process.

Unreal Engine 5 has been revolutionising game design, and we've just seen a new, and unexpected example. 343 Industries, now renamed as Halo Studios, has announced that it's moving from its proprietary engine Slipspace to Unreal to work on multiple new Halo games.