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Microsoft unveils Halo: Spartan Strike mobile game for Windows 8 tablets and smartphones

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Microsoft is announcing Halo: Spartan Strike, a new mobile and PC game that will offer a brand-new adventure in the Halo universe. The title is a top-down shooter game where you spray bullets in a certain direction by tapping a touchscreen.

Microsoft’s sci-fi first-person shooter series has sold more than 60 million units (or billions of dollars at retail) since 2001, and it has helped Microsoft sell millions of Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One game consoles. By making the game exclusive to the Windows tablet and smartphone platforms (at least for now), it hopes to sell more tablets and smartphones as well.

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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.