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Halo Battle Royale Reportedly Canceled in Favor of an Extraction Shooter

A new rumor suggests that Halo Studios has a new Halo extraction shooter in the works, born from the ashes of Project Tatanka. 

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More information has come out about Halo Studios’ scrapped battle royale game; the studio is instead making a multiplayer extraction shooter experience, according to a new report.

Halo’s “Project Tatanka” Battle Royale has turned into something new

Halo is in a big transition period after 2021’s Halo Infinite struggled to maintain a steady flow of new content to its multiplayer crowd. In 2024, Halo Studios, formerly 343 Industries, confirmed that all Halo projects moving forward will be built using Unreal Engine 5 instead of the studio’s in-house Slipspace engine, which was reportedly one of the root causes of Halo Infinite‘s many development woes. A ground-up remake of the first Halo game, named Halo: Campaign Evolved, is Halo Studios’ first UE5 project, planned to be released this year.

In the months following Halo Infinite‘s release, rumors began swirling about a multiplayer battle royale mode that was being co-developed with Certain Affinity, dubbed Project Tatanka. The battle royale, which was being built in the Slipspace engine, was initially thought to be a new mode set to be added to Halo Infinite, but........

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