SDCC Halo Universe Panel August 11, 2010

One of the other panels at San Diego Comic Con was the Halo Universe panel.  This panel focused mostly not on the game related aspects of Halo but actually the other aspects such as the books or the recently released anime.

Its impressive that one game series that’s only been in existance for nine years has branched into almost every aspect of our culture.  Granted, the majority of the branching didn’t start taking place until only a few years ago (I would say it really started taking off after the release of the Halo Graphic Novel) but most game series have never seen the exposure Halo has had.

In fact I remember Greg Bear (featured in the panel) mentioned in the Halo Legends documentary (on the SE DVD and Blu-Ray) he usually writes for franchises like Star Trek and Star Wars, the fact that the next franchise he’s going to write for is Halo is really telling that maybe video games are where the next major franchises are going to come from.