Kojima composer joins Halo Waypoint

By Robert Purchese Published 9 December, 2009

Plus: Third Legends anime on Saturday.

Halo Waypoint developer 343 Industries has hired audio director Sotaro Tojima from Kojima Productions.

His appointment to the internal Microsoft studio was revealed on 343's Twitter.

Tojima composed for Kojima Productions' biggest titles, such as the Metal Gear Solid series, and joins 343 Industries under creative director (and former Bungie employee) Frank O'Connor.

343 Industries looks after Halo Waypoint, the Xbox Live destination that correlates everything related to Halo, including original media like novels and animations as well as community features like tracking statistics and handing out awards.

This Saturday, Halo Waypoint will welcome the second part of (the third) Halo Legends anime The Package. Created by Casio Entertainment and overseen by Shinji Aramaki, the story follows Master Chief as he and four Spartans infiltrate a huge Covenant fleet in search of an intelligence asset. Next Saturday, 19th December, there will be a Making of documentary video released.

Then, on 2nd January, we'll be treated to the fourth Halo Legends anime, Origins. This will be followed a week later by a Making Of.

Halo Legends will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on 16th February 2010.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (6) 2 years ago

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  • Xerx3s #1 2 years ago

    "Halo Legends will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on 16th February 2010."

    Yay! \0/

  • metallicorphan #2 2 years ago

    so no listing for the other 3 episodes then?Homecoming,Prototype or Odd one out?

    maybe they will not show them until later so the people who get the DVD/BR will have something new to watch,and one over for the people who don't buy the DVD/BR

    been enjoying these episodes,and looking forward to part 2 of the package this Saturday

  • GreyBeard #3 2 years ago

    Composer is a bit misleading.

    Technically Sotaru Tojima is a producer, in charge of the overall sound mix.
    MGS4 music was composed primarily by Norihiko Hibino, based on themes by Harry Gregson-Williams and other pieces by Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuma Jinnouchi (GEM Impact).

    So there!

  • mcmonkeyplc #4 2 years ago

    Oi! That's Marty's job.

  • GaidenZero #5 2 years ago

    I think they are only screening 5 of the 8 Legend episodes - the others will be on the DVD. I guess it's to persuade people to buy it.

    On the whole I've enjoyed them so far - The babysitter was a bit average IMO, but The Duel I thought was superb. Really great art direction and a complelling story. The package was also good, and reminded me of Star Wars with the space encounters. The only thing that spoilt it was some of the awful voice acting.

  • miiiguel #6 2 years ago

    Love these. I just don't know why they don't keep them under Archives, I wanted to show them to my knefew but they were gone :/