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Halo Studios has set a firm launch date for Halo: Campaign Evolved, its full remake of the original 2001 Halo: Combat Evolved campaign. The new Halo game arrives July 28, with Premium and Collector’s Edition owners getting up to five days of early access starting July 23. Pre-orders are now open across Xbox, Steam, and PlayStation. New missions add a prequel story arc Every edition of Halo: Campaign Evolved will include Operation: METEORITE, a new three-mission story arc set one year before the events of the original game. The missions will follow Master Chief and Sgt. Johnson on a covert…
Persona 6 has finally been revealed – it’s real! It’s been nearly 10 years since the last new mainline Persona game. Unfortunately, the existence of Persona 6 is quite literally all we know. In the teaser reveal trailer, which aired during today’s Xbox Games Showcase, we got a strange and mysterious look at what appears to be a graveyard of sorts. The camera pans over the gravestones before highlighting a large monument with what appears to be a nobleman missing a head. We see someone – presumably from our Persona party – touching the monument, and then the trailer flashes to…
Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, revealed the next title in the franchise at the Xbox Games Showcase on Sunday. The new action-adventure game, dubbed Senua, is a direct response to the criticism that Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and its 2024 sequel Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II prioritized presentation over gameplay. Studio head Dom Matthews confirmed the game is coming in 2027 to Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5, and Game Pass. A different kind of Hellblade game Senua will drop the tightly linear structure of the previous two Hellblade games in favor of a broader action-adventure format. Matthews describes…
Spyro: A Realm Beyond is not a remake of a previous Spyro game. Instead, it is a brand new adventure where the purple dragon is apparently stranded in “a realm beyond” and trying to find a way home while battling an invading force called the Scavs. The brief gameplay footage shown of the game, after a pre-rendered sequence, appears to show a strong emphasis on freeform flying.Spyro: A Realm Beyond releases Spring 2027 for Xbox (on Game Pass), PlayStation 5, PC, and Switch 2.
During the 2026 Xbox Games Showcase, Microsoft revealed a new special edition Xbox Series X console that will be available in November of this year. The console is a standard Xbox Series X with 1 TB of storage, but it has a number of classic Xbox details. Firstly, the system and controller and are a translucent green recalling the Halo special edition version of the original Xbox. The controller’s face buttons are also styled to look like the face buttons of the original controller, the bumpers are black and white in honor of the original black and white buttons, and the…
The team at inXile has been hard at work on Clockwork Revolution, but every new showing is increasingly impressive. Today’s presentation showed off some of the major cast members that will be joining in on the adventure, but also highlighted the way the game will feature time travel as a core mechanic, letting the player go back to the city 25 years earlier in 1867, and then letting you manipulate how things will be in the present. The moment-to-moment gameplay looks to follow in the spirit of games like BioShock and Dishonored, encouraging players to use a variety of tools, paths,…
New dummy unit photos shared by leaker Sonny Dickson on X offer the clearest look yet at Apple’s first foldable iPhone, expected to launch later this year alongside the iPhone 18 lineup. The images confirm several design details that have been circulating in the rumor mill for months, and one that is more surprising. What the dummy unit reveals The iPhone Fold dummy shows a book-style foldable with a roughly 7.8-inch inner display when open, putting its screen real estate close to an iPad mini. The front camera sits in the top-left corner of that inner screen. The outer display…
Call of Duty is one of the leading names in first-person shooters, but with so many competitors over the years, even it has to adapt to stay relevant. DMZ is its most recent answer to that, bringing the trendy extraction shooter gameplay popularized by Escape from Tarkov, Arc Raiders, and Marathon to Activision-Blizzard’s most profitable franchise. Today’s Xbox Games Showcase gave us the first look at gameplay since the mode’s beta experience, and you can look for yourself below. The footage shows a squad of three, which is quickly reduced to a squad of two, as they fight tooth and nail…
Baseus Inspire XH1 MSRP $149.99 “Budget headphones that surpass expectations.” Pros Really good battery life Lovely build and comfort Pleasing audio output Sufficiently durable Generous accessory kit Cons ANC incurs an audio tax Transparency needs work Wear detection is missing Earcup hinge is a tad loose Quick Review On an average day, when a company makes “best ever” claims for its new product, I usually take it with the proverbial pinch of salt. Naturally, when Baseus launched the Inspire XH1 and marketed them as the “finest headphones” it has ever made, I was skeptical. I’m glad that I was wrong.…
Revealed during the 2026 Xbox Game Showcase, Revelations is a new expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages that will be available on July 7. Id is using terms like “Hell freezes over” to describe the expansion and writes, “Wounded and betrayed, the Slayer is thrust into a merciless purgatory only escapable by confronting haunting truths and forging new strength with the help of a mysterious ally. He must ascend from the prison of his mind and fight an abomination of the gods to set his followers on the path to freedom.” The trailer for the expansion, expectedly, shows off violent and…