Dan Ayoub, Executive Producer at 343 Industries walks us though the first mission of Halo Wars 2 and the introduction of the Banished after the crew of the Spirit of Fire wakes up from 28 years in cryo sleep. Bringing a sequel to Halo Wars has been a major request from the Halo community and hasn’t been without its own challenges along the way from gameplay mechanics to story they wanted to tell. At the end of the session, Dan took some time to do a short Q&A.
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With E3 came the official trailer for Halo Wars 2 and a few other interesting platform announcements for Xbox Live and Xbox One. Xbox revealed a new console, controller studio and the Play Anywhere program allowing buy once and play on Xbox One or Windows 10, which Halo Wars 2 is a part of. The Xbox Press Brief also kicked off the Halo Wars 2 beta on Xbox One featuring Domination and Deathmatch, and Strongholds for those in attendance at E3. There are promising prospects for the sequel to one of the most requested games of the franchise and we’re here to give you our thoughts.
Thanks to all of the support from the Halo community, the Halo Bowl was a big success. In addition to crowning Drunken Halo the champions of the tournament, we raised over $1600 for Gamers Outreach to partially fund a GO Kart. After E3, we all got together to recap our experience in the tournament and we’re pleased to have Zach Wigal, founder of 
If you can’t tell, we’re back in the convention season with this late release, but none-the-less, here’s our podcast from the Hog Wild update that hit earlier this month. We also talk about the latest 
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