Halo is coming to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Not the video games (which, in any case, are already obtainable on the streaming service), however Halo: The Series — the upcoming live-action Paramount Plus adaptation of the sci-fi shooter, which debuts on March twenty fourth.

And to ensure that Game Pass Ultimate subscribers don’t miss out on the most recent installment within the franchise, Microsoft is offering customers a free 30-day membership to Paramount Plus beginning on March twenty third (a day earlier than the present begins) in order that they are often able to tune in when the present arrives the next day.

Halo (the TV present) is technically set in a unique continuity than the present video video games, books, and different Halo content material that’s come earlier than. The present takes place a brand new “Silver Timeline” that may give it an opportunity to inform a barely completely different model of the basic Halo story with out being beholden to the load of years of canon that comes earlier than.

The free trial can also be solely sufficient to get Game Pass Ultimate subscribers by means of the primary 5 episodes of the nine-episode season — so followers trying to end the battle collection must ultimately pay up for one more month of Paramount Plus (which is sort of definitely the intention right here).

Still, in case you’re a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber that’s additionally a Halo fan fascinated with testing the brand new present — one thing that’s undoubtedly true of an enormous share of subscribers — it’s a pleasant further perk.