Halo

Halo is the franchise that sold the Xbox, and this collection shows how a shooter became a full transmedia universe. The core is the run of mainline games, from the Bungie era through 343 Industries' Halo 4, Halo 5, and Halo Infinite, plus the strategy spin-offs and remastered collections.

Around the games sits a genuine cross-media build-out: the live-action web series Forward Unto Dawn, the anime anthology Halo Legends, the film Nightfall, the recent television adaptation, the novel The Flood, and orchestral soundtracks that became as recognizable as the games themselves. The throughline is Master Chief and the war against the Covenant, a military science-fiction saga that Microsoft expanded deliberately into every format it could. The result is one of the few game franchises that genuinely spans games, film, television, books, and music, anchored by one of the medium's most iconic protagonists.

The Halo franchise spans 3 series, 15 books, 16 games, 2 comic, 1 movies, 1 music in the CrossBinge catalog.