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Microsoft announces Halo 5 coming Oct. 27 in live-action TV commercial

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Microsoft announced tonight that the Halo 5: Guardians video game will debut on Oct. 27. The company made the announcement in a live-action ad that aired during The Walking Dead television show.

The new Halo game is highly anticipated, as Microsoft has sold more than 60 million Halo video games, and the series is considered its best exclusive intellectual property in competition with rivals Sony and Nintendo. The title is likely to sell a lot of Xbox One game consoles.

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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.