partnership with the Electronic Sports League (ESL). Seasons 1 and 2 ran on The Master Chief Collection. In August 2015 Microsoft announced it would be increasing the total prize pool of the HCS to $1 million USD, for the newly announced Halo World Championship, which will be the debut event for Halo 5. This prize pool was later announced to be crowd-funded, which later resulted in Major League Gaming announcing that the prize pool had climbed to $2 million USD. Later that week, 343 announced that the prize pool was locked at $2.5 million USD. This was the largest console esports prize pool ever. References External links Halo at Bungie Halopedia – an external wiki Video games about ancient astronauts Esports games Science fiction shooter video games Microsoft franchises Military science fiction Video game franchises introduced in 2001 Video games adapted into novels Video games adapted into comics Video games adapted into films Video games adapted into television shows Fiction about megastructures Space opera video games Space opera Alien invasions in fiction Fiction set in the 26th century Genocide in fiction