Frank O’Connor on how Halo 4 gets the most out of the 7-year-old Xbox 360

343 Industries is set to keep faith with the existing Halo engine for future Halo games.Halo 4, due out on Xbox 360 in November, is built using a heavily modified version of the engine established by Bungie. Parts of it are completely new, but the core that served Halo: Reach and previous Halo games so well remains. But with Halo 4 being the first in a planned trilogy of new Halo games, and with the next Xbox looming ever larger on the horizon, 343 would be forgiven for building a new engine for Halo 5 and beyond.According to Halo boss Frank O’Connor, that’s not the case. He told Eurogamer this afternoon that 343 can use the core of the existing Halo engine even on new hardware.Read more…