At the end of 2020, 343 Industries revealed that it was planning to shut down the servers for numerous Halo titles that were released throughout the Xbox 360 era. These games primarily included Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4. And while the plan was to officially close the servers later this year in December 2021, 343 has today announced that the real shut down date won’t occur until early next year.
Divulged on the official Halo website today, 343 announced that it will be sunsetting a majority of online services for various Halo titles on Xbox 360 next year on January 13, 2022. “Every cycle spent maintaining and supporting Xbox 360 legacy services is time and energy not spent on the future of Halo. To that end – today we are announcing our intention to sunset our Halo Xbox 360 legacy services to fully focus on the future of the franchise. On January 13, 2022,…
