--- description: The second installment in developer 343 Industries' new Halo trilogy will be exclusive to Xbox One and ship in fall 2015. title: Xbox One: Halo 5 Guardians Announced by Microsoft image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c56a1588c7d63e8/69868fd636176005f590c0ed/the-halo-5.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Halo 5 Guardians Will Be the Xbox One's Maiden Halo by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 16, 2014 2:33 PM CUT  Microsoft by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 16, 2014 2:33 PM CUT It seems _Halo 5_‘s skipping its presumptive E3 unveiling and going for a gala May party instead. We all knew _Halo 5_ existed (just as we presume _Halo_s 6, 7 and beyond do), but Microsoft chose this Friday spring morning, of all mornings, to de-cloak its second installment in 343 Industries’ new trilogy starring the be-helmeted Master Chief, and a bunch of exceptionally hard-to-kill new aliens (if you played _Halo 4_‘s campaign on “legendary” difficulty, anyway). “How do we begin and where to we go with ‘Halo’ on Xbox One?” asks Microsoft [in the press release](http://news.xbox.com/2014/05/games-halo-journey-announcement "undefined"). Toward even grander gameplay scales, running at 60 frames per second, it answers, calling that task “non-trivial.” So yes, _Halo 5 Guardians_, as it’s officially titled in full, will be an Xbox One exclusive, despite the trilogy’s Xbox 360 beginnings. And 343 Industries says we can expect it not this year, alas, but sometime fall 2015. Handing the mic to the studio: --- > “” --- 343 adds that it’s approaching _Halo_ as a “journey,” not a “destination,” implying the may be _Halo_\-related content in the offing that we’ll see _before_ 2015\. Something like Kojima’s _Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes_ (serves as a standalone game as well as prologue to _Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain_)? We’ll see. Microsoft says it’ll give us “much more information about \[its\] plans for this year” at its upcoming Xbox E3 2014 Media Briefing, which happens (and I’ll be attending) on June 9. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/102728/halo-5-guardians-xbox-one/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/102728/halo-5-guardians-xbox-one/"},"headline":"Halo 5 Guardians Will Be the Xbox One's Maiden Halo","datePublished":"2014-05-16T14:33:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:02:15.493Z","description":"The second installment in developer 343 Industries' new Halo trilogy will be exclusive to Xbox One and ship in fall 2015.","url":"https://time.com/102728/halo-5-guardians-xbox-one/","keywords":["Tech","Video Games","xbox One","Microsoft"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c56a1588c7d63e8/69868fd636176005f590c0ed/the-halo-5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Peckham","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c56a1588c7d63e8/69868fd636176005f590c0ed/the-halo-5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"the-halo-5","caption":"","creditText":"Microsoft","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/102728/halo-5-guardians-xbox-one/","name":"Halo 5 Guardians Will Be the Xbox One's Maiden Halo"}}]}] ```