The Future of Gaming with HALO Franchise Director Frank O'Connor

In this inaugural episode of VICE Talks Gaming, screenwriter Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra) sits down with the franchise development director for Microsoft's colossal game series HALO. Praised for being among the best in the first-person-shooter genre, HALO has expanded its universe into other media – best selling novels, comics books, television shows, etc – and O'Connor is in charge of maintaining creative consistency across it all. Landis and O'Connor's discuss their mutual creative process, the approach to managing a a franchise of this magnitude and the evolution of gaming with the progression of technology. The latest game in the series, HALO 5: Guardians was released this week and is in stores now. WATCH NEXT: Millionaire Gaming Prodigies: Welcome to eSPORTS - http://bit.ly/19dqN4f Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Read our Tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vice Check out our Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/vicemag