Master Chief is back in Halo 5: Guardians.
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Hands-on with Halo 5: Guardians: Campaign takes us in search of Master Chief

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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It’s still Halo.

343 Industries hasn’t messed up the single-player campaign for Halo 5: Guardians. In fact, you could say the developer has been an excellent guardian of the Halo franchise since inheriting it from Bungie some years back. That much is evident from my hands-on preview of Halo 5: Guardians, which debuts on October 27 as the next big Microsoft exclusive in a series that has sold more than 60 million copies to date.

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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.