With Mattel’s BOOMco., a previous maker of Halo-themed dart guns, being discontinued, it seems that Microsoft has passed the mantle of creating foam flinging Halo replicas to Hasbro’s Nerf brand of products. The Nerf blasters that have been confirmed so far are interpretations of Halo’s assault rifle, rocket launcher, and Needler, all likely to be featured in Halo Infinite.

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Nerf is no stranger to crossovers with major franchises, video games included. Large multimedia juggernauts like Star Wars, Transformers, and Marvel have all done cross-promotions with Hasbro to create lines of products based on their intellectual properties. In the world of video games, in particular, both Fortnite and Overwatch have several licensed Nerf blasters of their own. Considering both Hasbro’s history of cross-promotional products, as well as Microsoft’s upcoming release of Halo Infinite, this sort of deal makes a lot of sense for both companies.

Chiefly among the weapons being released is a variant of the classic assault rifle called the MA40, which considering that the blaster will feature a code allowing buyers to obtain the toy’s color scheme inside of Halo Infinite, may very well be representative of the design Halo Infinite will be using for its assault rifle. In appearance, the MA40 is most similar to the MA37 variant of the assault rifle, as featured in Halo: Reach. The blaster will require four C batteries to operate and cost $50.

In addition, Nerf’s Micro Shots sub-series, a brand of smaller blasters, will be receiving two more blasters courtesy of this Halo crossover. One is based on the Covenant Needler, while the other is a more loose adaptation of the iconic M41 SPNKR rocket launcher. Both will come packaged with two darts and cost $10.

Considering that Halo Infinite’s release window is set for late 2020 and that the in-game code is given away with every MA40 blaster, it seems apparent that this crossover with Hasbro is part of Infinite’s pre-release promotion. What products Microsoft may use as other promotional material in the future remains to be seen.

Halo Infinite is currently in development for Xbox One and Xbox Series X.

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Source: GameSpot