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Halo Studios employees are reporting fresh job losses days after the July 28 launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved, putting Microsoft’s marquee shooter team inside the still-unfinished Xbox restructuring announced a month ago. Windows Central first reported the cuts on August 5, citing LinkedIn posts...

Microsoft has abandoned its U.S. trademark application for Halo: The Endless, ending a filing that had been active since December 2021 and survived a lengthy opposition process. The application was formally abandoned on April 1, 2026, according to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office records...

Windows Central reports that Pierre Hintze, the head of Halo Studios, has been referred to Microsoft HR multiple times over alleged antagonistic behavior toward staff and colleagues across Xbox. The claims remain unverified publicly, and the report says Microsoft did not uphold at least one...

Glenn Israel’s departure from Halo Studios after seventeen years landed like a thunderclap across the Halo community and inside the studio itself: the longtime art director announced on LinkedIn that he is “officially no longer contributing to the Halo universe,” added that he cannot yet share...

Glenn Israel, a veteran artist who spent nearly two decades shaping Halo’s visual identity, quietly announced he was leaving Halo Studios and left a terse, pointed LinkedIn message promising to tell “this particular story in its entirety when it is absolutely safe to do so next year,” a line...