Adam91 Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 343 Industries has announced that four new Halo books will be releasing this year and one of them will have an old familiar name on the cover. *Image from Halo Waypoint An announcement on Halo Waypoint revealed that fans of Halo lore will be getting four new books this year along with release dates. This year will see a five Halo novels in total as the latest one "Halo: New Blood" released earlier this month on March 2nd. The first of the four up coming books is Halo: Hunters in the Dark by Peter David, it is a full length novel and it will bd released on June 16th, 2015. Halo: Saint's Testimony by 343 Industries Franchise Development Director Frank O'Connor will be next in line, this book is a digital single and it will be available on July 27th, 2015. Halo: Last Light by Troy Denning will also be a full length novel and it will release on September 7th, 2015 Halo: Shadow of Intent by Joseph Staten (author of Halo: Contact Harvest and cinematic director for Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and Halo 3) who will be returning to bring us more Halo lore in this digital novella, release date will be December 7, 2015. So there will be a lot of new installments to the Halo universe this year, will you be picking any of the new books up? Thanks to UNSC Spartan II for bringing the news. This post has been promoted to an article 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrhuntington Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 (edited) "Halo: Shadow of Intent by Joseph Staten (author of Halo: Contact Harvest and cinematic director for Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and Halo 3) who will be returning to bring us more Halo lore in this digital novella, release date will be December 7, 2015." This is presumably after Halo 5's release. Also is an either obvious reference or about Shipmaster and his Elites. This gives me a strong feeling about his presence in the future games now, and some Elite's in Halo 5 looking like Halo 3 Elites, obviously coinciding with the pic above. There will now be good Elite's versus baddie Elites, I'd like to think. I'd like to learn more about Rtas 'Vadum, as he really hasn't been fleshed out all too much. Also that's going to be a tsunami of lore hitting. New info in bunches. Thanks for the info Adam. Edited March 13, 2015 by rrhuntington 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam91 Posted March 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 "Halo: Shadow of Intent by Joseph Staten (author of Halo: Contact Harvest and cinematic director for Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and Halo 3) who will be returning to bring us more Halo lore in this digital novella, release date will be December 7, 2015." This is presumably after Halo 5's release. Also is an either obvious reference or about Shipmaster and his Elites. This gives me a strong feeling about his presence in the future games now, and some Elite's in Halo 5 looking like Halo 3 Elites, obviously coinciding with the pic above. There will now be good Elite's versus baddie Elites, I'd like to think. I'd like to learn more about Rtas 'Vadum, as he really hasn't been fleshed out all too much. Also that's going to be a tsunami of lore hitting. New info in bunches. Thanks for the info Adam. Also worth noting that that's the Ark behind the Elite in the image above. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrhuntington Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Also worth noting that that's the Ark behind the Elite in the image above. Even better. Reignites speculation of Chief being on the Ark, and why the Elites could be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzy_Dan Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 This is incredible news. Thanks Spartan and thanks Adam for relaying it in article form. I've honestly been waiting for more Halo novels to come and seeing that Frank O'Connor and Joseph Staten will be writing two of them is exciting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halo6 Follower Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 "This is the carrier, Shadow of Intent." Can't wait for these new books! Bring em on!! I'm ready!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unease Peanut Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 I might start picking up a few Halo books. I find myself with alot more interest in the Halo lore lately. Thanks for the report Adam! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrhuntington Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Also, what happened to Joseph Staten not working on Halo? Does this not count or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboose The Ace Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 ^ He quit Bungie so, maybe he is going back to Halo or has decided to write books or something? I know it seems kinda odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger Intel Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 Looking forward to these, although I've been off reading for a while now. I'll get back to those Halo books again sometime. Nice work on the article Adam, and thanks for the credit. Also, what happened to Joseph Staten not working on Halo? Does this not count or what? He started with Bungie, and wrote a book. He then stayed with Bungie as they left to work on Destiny. Sometime in late 2013, Bungie announced that he had left them. He's most likely working with 343 now, maybe because he prefers Halo. Good to see him coming back to write another book, Halo: Contact Harvest was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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