Today, we welcome players back to the ranks of Noble team as Halo: Reach officially joins Halo: The Master Chief Collection with Xbox Game Pass and for Xbox One, Windows 10 PC, and Steam. Since we announced Halo: Reach and the rest of Halo: The Master Chief Collection are coming to PC, we’ve been thrilled with the community response and collaboration, and are excited the game is now available to play in stunning 4K, over nine years after its original launch. Some of you have been closely involved in making this launch a reality and we hope to have your continued involvement with our Halo Insider program, helping to make this the best experience of Halo on PC!

With Halo: Reach, experience
the heroic story of Noble Team, a group of Spartans, who through great
sacrifice and courage, saved countless lives in the face of impossible odds.
The planet Reach is humanity’s last line of defense between the encroaching
Covenant and their ultimate goal, the destruction of Earth. If it falls,
humanity will be pushed to the brink of destruction.

If you’re itching to jump into the
action today, there are a variety of ways to play across Xbox Game Pass, Steam,
and Xbox One. No matter your platform of choice, we look forward to seeing you back
on Reach!

PC: The Game You Love, Built for PC

The Master Chief’s saga on PC comes
equipped with new features, optimizations, and customizations built for the
platform. Halo: Reach looks and plays better than ever at 60
frames-per-second (or greater) with 4K UHD support, and players can fine-tune
their experience with a vast array of options, including variable framerate,
the ability to rebind mouse/keyboard controls, texture/shadow quality and more.

Players
will have a few different avenues to obtain Halo: Reach depending on their platform of choice:

• Xbox Game Pass – Join Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or Xbox Game Pass for PC (Beta) and get Halo: Reach, the first chapter in Halo: The Master Chief Collection, today.Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2: Anniversary, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST (Campaign), and Halo 4 are also included in your membership and will be available on each game’s respective release date, completing the collection in 2020.

• Microsoft Store and Steam – The Halo: The Master Chief Collection bundle is available today
  for $39.99 USD, which will include Halo: Reach and will automatically
  update with the remaining titles as they launch next year. Halo: Reach
  and the remaining titles within Halo: The Master Chief Collection for PC
  can also be purchased individually for $9.99 USD, except for Halo 3: ODST Campaign
  which can be purchased for $4.99 USD.

Xbox One: Improved, Refreshed, and Better than Ever

For existing owners of Halo: The
Master Chief Collection on Xbox One, the Halo: Reach Campaign, along
with Firefight mode, is now available as a premium add-on for $9.99 USD. The
multiplayer components of Halo: Reach – including PVP modes, Forge, and
Theater – are automatically included as part of the base content offering of Halo:
The Master Chief Collection at no additional cost via a game update
available today. If you’re new to Halo: The Master Chief Collection on
Xbox One, you can obtain the entire updated and improved collection with Xbox
Game Pass Ultimate or with Xbox Game Pass for Console, or purchase through the
Microsoft Store for $39.99.

Looking Ahead

As the team launches Halo: Reach today,
we’re already working on the framework and plans to kick off public flighting
of the next PC release – Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary – in early
2020. Thank you to the Xbox and Halo communities for going on this journey with
us and thank you for partnering with us to make it a reality!

We’re excited to deliver Noble Team’s
adventure to Xbox One and PC players and appreciate the community’s ongoing partnership
and support through our flighting and development process. This is just the
start, and we cannot wait to finish the fight throughout next year as we
release rest of the collection in 2020.

For all the latest on Halo: Reach, Halo: The Master Chief Collection and all things Halo, be sure to stay tuned to Halo Waypoint and Xbox Wire and follow @Halo on your favorite social media platforms.

Related:
Xbox Insider Release Notes – Beta Ring (1911.191127-1130)
This Week on Xbox: November 29, 2019
Next Week on Xbox: New Games for December 3 to 6

Source: Xbox Blog
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