343 Industries and book publisher Simon & Schuster have announced a new novel set in the Halo universe called Halo: New Blood.
The novel tells the story of Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck, who was played by actor Nathan Fillion in Halo 3: ODST. Following the Covenant War, with the Master Chief listed as missing in action, the UNSC decides to create a new generation of Spartans, and Buck is “forced to make a life-altering decision.”
Halo: New Blood was written by Matt Forbeck, a New York Times bestselling author who also wrote the Guild Wars Novel Ghosts of Ascalon. Forbeck says that it’s somewhere around 60,000 words, and is being released on March 2 as an ebook only to start.
“I absolutely loved Halo 3: ODST myself, and I always wanted to know more about Buck and his teammates too,” Forbeck said. “When you finish the game, there are so many unanswered questions about who Buck is and what’s going to happen to him. This became my chance to fill in a lot of the blanks in his past and even help chart out his future, and I could not have been more honored.”
343 Industries also recently announced that early adopters of Halo: The Master Chief Collection will get an updated version of Halo 3: ODST’s campaign for free as an apology for the online multiplayer issues it suffered from at launch.
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