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‘Halo: Nightfall’ returns its cast to the original Halo in its second episode (preview)

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Microsoft showed a preview of the second episode of its “Halo: Nightfall” digital video series yesterday at its HaloFest fan event.

Halo has sold more than 60 million copies since the series debut with Combat Evolved 2001 and generated more than $3 billion in sales at retail for Microsoft. It has also sold countless Xbox game consoles as the flagship game franchise that sets Microsoft’s game machines apart from its competitors. Microsoft hopes to leverage that brand recognition into a much bigger mainstream audience for its digital video series and its separate upcoming Halo television show, which counts Hollywood heavyweight Steven Spielberg as its producer.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.