In addition to the upcoming Halo: Combat Evolved remake called Campaign Evolved, Microsoft is "definitely" working on remakes of Halo 2 and Halo 3 and they are in "active development," according to a reputable leaker.

Rebs Gaming reported this recently, adding that these games are moving ahead "regardless of how well Campaign Evolved does." The reported remakes of Halo 2 and Halo 3 are in "early development," the report said, as relayed by Eurogamer.

These games, if real, would join a third unannounced Halo game that is said to be a Fortnite-like live-service multiplayer game.

The Star Wars holiday May the 4th was this week, and to mark the occasion, Circana analyst Mat Piscatella shared a list of the top 10 best-selling Star Wars games in the United States, dating back to 1995.

The best-selling Star Wars game of all time in the US--ranked by dollar sales and excluding DLC revenue--was the 2015 Star Wars: Battlefront reboot from EA and Battlefield developer DICE. Its 2017 sequel ranked No. 3 all time. Respawn's Star Wars Jedi series ranked highly as well, with Fallen Order landing at No. 2 all time and Survivor ranking No. 4. Lego Star Wars games performed exceptionally well as well, taking up four of the top 10 spots on the list. Check out the full top 10 list below.

EA's Star Wars: Battlefront games combined to sell more than 33 million copies as of 2019, and the number no doubt grew since then. Given the immense success of the two games, people wondered why DICE never made a third. In 2021, it was reported that EA rejected a pitch for Battlefront 3 in part because under the terms of EA's current licensing deal with Disney, a potential third Battlefront game would need to sell 20% more copies to generate the same amount of revenue.

After years of searching, the hunt for Diablo 4's secret cow level is at its end, and the reward is what is without a doubt the most ridiculous item in Diablo history.

Despite developer Blizzard insisting it didn't exist (itself a cow level tradition), the hunt for Diablo 4's cow level began as soon as the game first launched in 2023. In the past three years, players have been acquiring mysterious items thought to be associated with the cow level, with steps that required killing 666 cows, hidden timers, and riddles that took players all across Diablo 4's world. But all the items discovered at the end of these breadcrumb trails had no real immediate use, leading to dead ends.

That changed with the release of Diablo 4's new Lord of Hatred expansion and its addition of the Horadric Cube. By combining items like the stamina potion and rusted bardiche (both references to Diablo 2's cow level), as well as a new item, the Hand of Neyrelle, players have been able to access a new island off the coast of Skovos. Inside a cellar on the abandoned island is ring of cows that look to be preparing for a magic ritual.

Star Wars Day has come and gone, but many of its best deals are still lingering around like they're Obi-Wan's force ghost--and that's especially true for Star Wars video games. Several titles across PS5, Switch, Xbox, and PC continue to be discounted beyond May The Fourth. So if you happened to miss out on the festivities yesterday, you can still cash in on some price cuts throughout the rest of the week. From Star Wars Outlaws to Knights of the Old Republic, here are the best Star Wars gaming deals available right now. Note that some of these might sell out before the end of the week (many are slated to end on May 7), so be sure to check out anything that catches your eye. You can also head over to our Star Wars Merch Roundup, which has a few lingering deals on watches, shirts, action figures, and more.

• Amazon
• Best Buy
• Walmart
• Target
• GameStop
• Fanatical
• GOG
• Humble

Some of the best deals across all platforms are available on PC. For example, you can pick up the Star Wars Triple Bundle for just $22.53 (was $122), pulling together Squadrons, Fallen Order Deluxe Edition, and Battlefront 2 with an 82% discount. You'll also find the iconic Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for $2.49 (was $10), and the RPG has held up remarkably well over the years--if it's not yet in your collection, this is a great time to fix that.

Other notable deals include Star Wars Outlaws for $17.49 (was $70), Dark Forces Remaster for $15 (was $30), and the original Battlefront II for $2.49. These games are on sale across a variety of storefronts, though many sales are slated to end in the coming days. It looks like Steam and Fanatical have some of the longest-lasting discounts, though many price cuts will vanish before the end of the week.

Hitman developer IO Interactive has discussed a number of hot-button issues, including the impact of GTA 6's delay, the status of the game's delayed Switch 2 version, and what's going on with its mysterious fantasy game.

IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak covered these topics in an interview with The Game Business. Regarding the impact of GTA 6's delay from May 2026 to November 2026, Abrak said he would be lying if he said he didn't care about GTA 6 shifting further away from 007 First Light's release on May 27. First Light was originally set to launch in March, which was just a couple months before GTA 6 was supposed to release in May. Then Rockstar delayed GTA 6, and this provided "a bit more breathing room" for First Light.

"GTA is a huge behemoth in our industry," he said. "We never wish anyone ill. They have their good reasons for pushing it. I am certain it’s going be amazing."

EA has just announced a new free base game update for The Sims 4 that massively overhauls the way infants and toddlers work in-game and introduces a new type of clothing item: the Base Layer, which can be layered under other types of clothing items like tops and pants. The update also includes a multitude of new bug fixes and quality-of-life updates based on player feedback from the EA Forums and other social channels--including a fix for the issue causing photographs of Sims to display an all-black image rather than the actual photograph.

"Over the next few months, the team’s focus is on making that content even better by delivering improvements to the gameplay that matters most to Simmers," EA said in a press release announcing the update. "The goal is to make the game players already know and love feel smoother, more intuitive, and more consistent, based directly on feedback shared across EA Forums, The Sims Discord, and other community channels."

The update goes live next Tuesday, May 12, and will introduce the aforementioned Base Layer clothing items, which include camisoles, bras, binders, and other underclothes. There are a total of 14 base layer items (eight for adults, four for children, and two for toddlers) with over 380 color swatches and variants.

Alan Wake and Control developer Remedy has vowed to keep FBC: Firebreak online, despite the company planning to release no further updates to the game.

As part of Remedy's latest earnings briefing, the company said, "FBC: Firebreak will remain live and playable." The studio said the infrastructure costs related to this will not be "significant."

On Steam, FBC has seven people in the game right now. The game is also available on console through Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus, in addition to being available to buy outright. The game may not have been the success that Remedy hoped for, but fans who are playing it will be able to keep doing so, and that's good news for them.

May 4 may have come and gone, but Star Wars celebrations are just getting started. With The Mandalorian & Grogu coming out in theaters May 22, fans have plenty to look forward to--and there's no shortage of limited edition collections and sales to check out while you wait. BaubleBar's 20% off Big Summer Kickoff sale is one of them, and it includes the full Star Wars line, featuring earrings, necklaces, rings, bracelets, pins, bag and phone charms, and storage pouches. If you've been meaning to pick up some of these items for your collection, it's a great time to buy.

BaubleBar's Star Wars necklaces have a charm bracelet feel, which is a fun touch as you can customize the charm order to your liking. You can also strip charms off and wear any of them as single pendant necklaces. Whether you favor heroes or villains, this collection has something for every fan's tastes.

• Darth Vader Charm Necklace -- $46.40 ($58)
• Grogu Charm Necklace -- $30.40 ($38)
• Grogu Cluster Charm Necklace -- $38.40 ($48)
• Heroes Charm Necklace -- $38.40 ($48)
• Villains Charm Necklace -- $38.40 ($48)
• Yoda Charm Necklace -- $46.40 ($58)

BaubleBar has some great discounts running right now, but the best deal by far is on its Repeating Bracelets and specific styles of the Pisa Charm Bracelet. Both are on sale for just $10 in every style. That includes Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, Yoda, Grogu, and C-3PO. The 20% off deal doesn't apply for these items, but they're already so reasonably priced you may as well build yourself a stack. Find all the other Star Wars bracelets on sale listed below.

It's been kind of a long time since we had a proper new Batman action game–more than a decade, in fact, since 2015's Arkham Knight was the most recent one. But that's going to change on May 22, when Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight hits digital storefronts. I had the chance recently to get about two hours of hands-on time with the newest Lego Batman epic, and it feels as much like a new Arkham game as it does a new Lego Batman game.

It didn't take long for the parallels to become obvious. My session began with a battle against Carmine Falcone's thugs at the Iceberg Lounge, and I felt immediately at home with the familiar control scheme--square to attack, triangle to counter, X to evade or jump over an enemy's head. As you play, you'll unlock gadgets and additional moves that will make each brawl more dynamic and fun, though the battles certainly aren't as difficult as they were in the Arkham games--Lego games are not generally intended to be challenging in that way, after all.

The feeling of familiarity didn't fade once I got out into the open world of Gotham City, gliding around and using Batman's grappler to zip all over the place with ease, or drifting around corners in a Lego version of Robert Pattinson's Batmobile. But it's not the aesthetic similarities between Rocksteady's games and this new Lego Batman that matter, since it's not as though there are a lot of different ways for Gotham City to look. What really matters is that Legacy of the Dark Knight sports the same sort of smooth gameplay that the Arkham games had. If you played any of the Arkham games, Legacy of the Dark Knight will fit you like a glove.

We've had a lot of Batman stories over the past century or so, whether it be in comic books, theatrical serials, TV shows, movies, video games, or any other method people use to tell stories. It doesn't matter the form--Batman has been all over it. So when Jonathan Smith, head of production at TT Games, said that Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight will feature the "definitive Batman story," my ears definitely perked up a little bit.

Smith made that comment at the start of a press event in Los Angeles for the newest Lego Batman game, where those of us in attendance had the chance to play Legacy of the Dark Knight for about two hours. We sampled several main story missions, including one that came straight from the big screen--Robin's origin story from Batman & Robin--and also had some time to explore the open world of Gotham City. It seems as though this game will be enormous, because it's drawing on so many different things from the sprawling source material.

But this kind of thing isn't new for the folks at TT Games, which has been making Lego games for two decades, going all the way back to the original Lego Star Wars in 2005. Their most recent big game, for example, was Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which included nine movies' worth of plot. Even so, Batman has way more material than that to wade through, since the character's nine feature-length theatrical movies are just the tip of the iceberg--Batman's also got years of comics and piles of other notable adaptations to draw from.

The next playtest for the upcoming Horizon multiplayer game Horizon Hunters Gathering is coming up pretty soon, and the test is technically open to anyone, though you have to get lucky to actually get in.

The second closed playtest runs May 22-25, and just like the first test in February, this will be playable on PS5 and PC via Steam. You can sign up for the test on the PlayStation Beta Program website and then cross your fingers and hope you get chosen.

The second test features more content than the first one, including two new characters--Ensa and Shadow. Characters from the first test--Rem, Sun, and Axle--are in the second test as well. What's more, players can look forward to a "playable episode" in the second test. This is the narrative part of the multiplayer game where players will learn new story details as they fight the machines.

Over the last few days, rumors have circulated about the next Call of Duty game being play tested and ultimately set to release on the PlayStation 4, but Activision has now denied the claim. Call of Duty looks to be leaving the last-gen platforms in the dust.

"Not sure where this one started, but it’s not true," Call of Duty posted on May 4. "The next Call of Duty is not being developed for PS4."

Not sure where this one started, but it’s not true. The next Call of Duty is not being developed for PS4.

For the first time since 2013's Call of Duty: Ghosts, the franchise will skip the PlayStation 4 console. This social media response from the official Call of Duty account only confirms it won't release the upcoming game on PlayStation 4, but presumably this means the Xbox One console generation is also getting left behind.

Grand Theft Auto VI is coming this November to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and while history suggests it will eventually come to PC, it won't be there alongside the console editions at launch. Why is that?

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick told Bloomberg that Rockstar Games is known to launch GTA games first on console before PC, and that is because, "I think with regard to a release like that you're judged by serving the core [audience]."

"Like really serving the core consumer. If your core consumer isn't there, if they're not served first and best, you kind of don't hit your other consumers," he said.

Subnautica 2 is coming to Xbox Game Pass on day one, developer Unknown Worlds has announced. It'll release on May 14 for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass members on Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Rog Xbox Ally.

As on Steam, Subnautica 2 will release in early access--known as Game Preview on Xbox. For more, check out the exact Subnautica 2 launch times for Xbox and PC.

Subnautica 2 is coming to market with a lot of hype behind it, as it's the No. 1 most-wishlisted game on Steam. The 2018 original game was much-loved and the spin-off, Below Zero, was enjoyed by fans, too. The sequel has not been confirmed for release on PlayStation 5 or Nintendo Switch 2.

The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red has received yet another nomination, but this one isn't for a game. The Polish game studio's physical office in Warsaw was nominated for the 12th edition of the Architectural Award of the Mayor of Warsaw.

"We're very proud to be included in this city-wide competition recognizing the best-designed spaces and buildings in Poland's capital," the studio said.

The company's HQ in Warsaw is where the team leading the development on The Witcher 4 is based. Fans can support CD Projekt Red in the architectural contest by voting for them at this website. The winners will be announced on June 22.

Diablo 4's new Lord of Hatred expansion added some tantalizing developments in the hunt for the game's fabled secret cow level, but so far, the level itself still remains illusive.

Players have been on the hunt for Diablo 4's cow level, a Diablo franchise tradition, since the game first launched in 2023. Both Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 sported their own versions of the joke level (which was actually kind of lucrative), leading fans to assume Diablo 4 had one too, despite Blizzard insisting it didn't. The base game and its first expansion both offered new clues as to the level's whereabouts and seemed to move the ball forward, only for secret hunters to to run into dead ends both times. Lord of Hatred, however, has changed that.

As seen in the video above from a member of Diablo 4's Not Finding A Cow Level Discord server, with the addition of the Horadric Cube (a crafting tool that granted access to versions of the cow level in previous Diablo games), dedicated cow-level truthers have finally found a use for previously discovered secret items like the stamina potion and rusty bardiche. Combining these in the cube along with a morbid new item, Neyrelle's hand, transmutes them into an all-new item, the cow skull Trophy of the Faithful. That item, in turn, rewards a torn journal page.

Year over year, Call of Duty continues to snowball into a bigger live-service gaming package, but if you're someone who's trying to keep up with the patch notes each update, the degree to which they have grown is astounding. Last week's Season 3 Reloaded update for Black Ops 7 and Warzone is no exception, as the patch notes surpassed the length of some of the world's most historic documents.

Call of Duty patch notes happen frequently throughout each game's yearly life cycle. Sometimes the developer releases a small patch with only a handful of bug fixes, but others, like the big seasonal content drops, are now blog posts of mammoth proportions.

As someone who's been covering Call of Duty for over a decade, I've read a lot of patch notes, and I find myself becoming increasingly overwhelmed by the abundance of text included

When it announced its AI-powered DLSS 5 raytracing tech earlier this year, Nvidia inadvertently made headlines when users criticized how much the tech apparently changed the faces of game characters, including Grace Ashcroft of Resident Evil Requiem. According to Requiem producer Masato Kumzawa, the uproar about how DLSS 5 might unilaterally change characters' faces contrary to the intent of the developers who created them shows how well Capcom got Grace's design right from the start.

"The fact a lot of players commented they really liked the original design of Grace and didn't want to see it changed was a positive," Kumzawa told Eurogamer. "It meant we got the design right [and] points to the fact that Grace quickly established herself as a fan favorite, that people had such strong opinions on her design."

Kumzawa didn't comment directly on how Capcom was involved with the announcement. When DLSS 5 was initially announced, Capcom's Jun Takeuchi, and executive producer on Resident Evil Requiem, stated that "DLSS 5 represents another important step in pushing visual fidelity forward, helping players become even more immersed in the world of Resident Evil."

Orders for the Steam Controller finally became available on Steam earlier today, but it became extremely difficult to snag one before it went out of stock due to payment processing errors.

The Steam page for Valve's latest hardware launch opened up ordering around 1 PM ET. While some were able to pick up a Steam Controller as soon as this happened, others were served the following message after inputting their shipping and payment information: "There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance."

Initially, Steam stated that deliveries would be made in 3-5 days, but later expanded that window to 6-10 business days. Eventually, the error message disappeared and was replaced with one stating, "Your order cannot be completed because one or more items in your cart is currently out of stock. Please try again later." Its Steam page now displays an "Out of Stock" message, and the product can't be added to your digital cart.

“This has never happened before, so it’s very exciting,” says Magic the Gathering head designer Mark Rosewater as we start a new round of his upcoming trading card game, Mood Swings. Despite the trading card game being designed to be easy to pick up--as well as Rosewater having played thousands of matches over its nearly 30 years of development--he is about to pull off a very specific sequence of moves for the first time.

On its face, Mood Swings delivers on its promise of being incredibly straightforward. In its primary format, two players (although it can be played with more) each form a hand of five cards from a single 45-card deck. Each card is named after an emotion, has an associated value, and a unique effect, with only one-card-per-person played each round. After every participant completes their turns, whichever person has the highest total value of cards on the table wins the round, and winning three rounds secures victory. Cards in play carry over between rounds, with the winner of the previous round going first, and the loser drawing a new card (more often than not, going second is advantageous.)

It’s the final round, with myself and Rosewater tied at 2 rounds a piece. As he begins to explain the series of moves that he wants to pull off, he comes to realize that it’s not actually going to go the way he thought. You see, Rosewater already has Vanity in play, which has a starting value of zero, but increases by one for every card (mood) he has on the board, including itself. However, if his hand is empty, Vanity instead boosts itself by three for every mood he has in play.