343 Industries-era games heavily draw on novels for narratives, with "Halo 4" and "Halo 5" requiring fans to read related books for comprehension.

Halo 4 is the first original game to come out of 343, but Garza has actually worked at the company for around four years now. He met Kenneth Scott, 343’s senior art director, at a conference in ...

Halo 4, which launched on Xbox 360 in November 2012, ... At this point, Ross and 343 went "back to the drawing board" to determine what Halo's presence should be on the nascent Xbox One.