Halo lands on PlayStation for the first time on July 28, and with it the console exclusive is finished. Halo: Campaign Evolved, an Unreal Engine 5 remake of the 2001 game that built the Xbox, ships simultaneously on PS5, Xbox, and PC, day one on Game Pass, at $49.99.

  • After nearly 25 years as Xbox's flagship, the most guarded exclusive in gaming is now on any machine you own.
  • The head of Xbox's studios says the real rival is "everything from TikTok to movies," not another console. In the second quarter of 2025, six of the ten best-selling games on PlayStation in the US were Microsoft-published, per Circana.
  • It lands weeks after Xbox cut 3,200 jobs, about a fifth of the division.
  • The exception: GTA VI stays a two-console exclusive on November 19, maybe the last game that makes owning a box feel worth it.