Halo 2 & 3 Remakes Reportedly Canceled as Halo Preps for a Full Reboot Under Activision

September 27, 2026 · 25 sources

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Halo is getting torn down to the studs. Destructoid reports leaks that several Halo projects have been canceled — including remakes of Halo 2 and Halo 3 — just one day after the outlet reported the next Halo will most likely be a complete reboot. VGC's latest podcast asks the big question hanging over it all: what does Halo under Activision mean for Xbox?
Arc Raiders keeps bending toward kindness. Per Eurogamer, Embark Studios is running a new matchmaking "test" that lets players opt into a PvE version with none of the usual player-versus-player violence — and separately, PC Gamer is "seriously hyped" that players will finally get to build their home Topside.
Palworld's 1.0 is now the highest-rated Steam game of 2026, per Destructoid. The little Pokémon-like that could simply refuses to stop climbing.
Ganondorf gets his close-up. Nintendo shared an extended clip of the villain in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake via the Nintendo Today! app ahead of the November 5 Switch 2 launch.
A grim Pokémon story: Kotaku reports resellers are invoking a 12-year-old fan's death to inflate 30th anniversary card prices — and Avery's family is pushing back hard.

Kotaku's report on the 30th anniversary set is a rough read: as scalpers pivot to misprints and "contextual excuses," one eBay listing tied to 12-year-old Avery's death "sinks to a depressing new low." The family's response: "This does not honor Avery's generous heart."
The Ocarina of Time drip-feed continues: IGN notes the new Ganondorf clip went out through the Nintendo Today! mobile app, while Nintendo Life's dungeon-crawl countdown reaches entry #2 ("A Sophomore Slump?") one week closer to launch.
Ghost Town Games is officially moving on from Overcooked: the studio tells Nintendo Life, "We're not making a party game now, it's more of an evening thing" — and the interview confirms a genuine love for Luigi's Mansion within the team.
Nintendo Life is polling how many hours players have sunk into the Switch 2 exclusive Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, noting only a handful of players have shared completion times so far.
Rayman Legends Retold arrives this December with a launch edition packing extra goodies — but "just don't expect a proper game card."
Community spotlight: a fan-built Pokémon HOME scanner claims to be the first tool ever to show the exact IVs/EVs of any Pokémon you own (online calculators can only give ranges), and one fan's hand-made Gengar Casio watch is pure poison-type swagger.

The Halo scoop deepens: Destructoid says leaks point to multiple canceled projects, including the Halo 2 and Halo 3 remakes, following its report that the next Halo is likely a complete reboot — current lore and universe ditched in favor of a fresh start under new leadership.
VGC's podcast digs into what Halo under Activision means for Xbox's future — and whether Bungie's Destiny 2 plans are too little, too late.
Rock Paper Shotgun, meanwhile, argues Microsoft's failure to find a home for Ninja Theory "voids the one, very tenuous upside" to Senua's Summer Game Fest reveal, in a sharply critical piece on the latest round of Xbox cuts.

Embark's new test, per Eurogamer: opt-in matchmaking for a PvE version of the game — zero player-versus-player violence — a direct response to Arc Raiders' surprisingly friendly playerbase.
And the extraction loop is softening at home, too: PC Gamer is "seriously hyped" that players will finally get the chance to build their home Topside.

Hytale's early access era gets its first proper Chapter update on October 12: it's all about them goblins, adding the game's "first proper boss" and a "handcrafted" dungeon, per Rock Paper Shotgun.
One nervous dev bringing a classic Flash game to Steam tells PC Gamer: "I sit in terror looking at the 750,000 wishlists."
And in Valve lore: Gabe Newell confirms he really did throat-sing in the office for months until it "got annoying," admitting, "I am entirely self-taught, and it shows" (via Destructoid).

Palworld's 1.0 is officially the best-reviewed Steam title of 2026, per Destructoid — more proof, the outlet argues, that there's no ceiling to indie games right now.
Crimson Desert has "kept me trapped in its opening area," writes GameSpot — an action-RPG the site describes as kinda like Dragon's Dogma 2, with a sprinkle of The Witcher 3, plus Breath of the Wild and Assassin's Creed touches. You could apparently join them for $1.
A pair of extremely 1990s Spanish run-and-gunners — yes, the ones where "Spanish Goku fights mutants" — are the next retro games headed to Steam, per PC Gamer.
Also from PC Gamer: an 18-year veteran of the site shares the 13 games on their Steam wishlist, and the eyes of Valve's creepy portrait are glowing again. Tinfoil hats on, everyone.

The Last of Us Day 2026 is nearly here: Naughty Dog has released a free animated PS5 background and is teasing announcements, per IGN.
Star Wars crossover dreams, take note: Spider-Man director Jon Watts will reportedly helm the first film in Simon Kinberg's new Skywalker Saga trilogy, per IGN.
GameSpot has posted its 2027 release schedule — a full lookahead at PS5, Xbox Series X|S (both carrying "massively increased prices"), and Switch 2.
Feel-good finale: PC Gamer profiles a 78-year-old grandmother with an "insatiable lust for violence" in Fortnite. Never stop gaming, grandma.