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Master Chief is under new guidance heading into the back end of 2026, as Activision has been granted the keys to the kingdom in a huge Xbox reshuffle.

Jason Jones, one of the co-founders of Bungie and a co-creator of Halo and Destiny, has announced his new studio, Stone Kite, which will work on projects across various entertainment mediums. The studio’s first release is One Zero One, a limited-series comic book based on a manuscript Check out some page selects in the gallery…

The original Xbox version of Halo: Combat Evolved has been made available to play in a web browser.

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In the wake of Xbox gutting Halo Studios and moving the franchise under Activision, content creators as well as current and former Halo devs have started talking about the series publicly online. That’s led to some messy drama and accusations, including a claim that Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) put some content creators on a…

Halo Studios, the team behind the modern iterations of XBOX’s flagship first-person shooter game, may as well soon be called simply “Studios”, as recent announcements by the XBOX vice president Matt Booty outlined a “continuing [of the company’s] reset” which seems to be curbing the developer’s involvement in both the franchise and the console’s future.

Xbox has laid off another 268 employees as part of a major reset it commenced in July 2026. At the time, the company said it would becutting 3,200 rolesbefore the end of the fiscal year, starting with 1,600 layoffs across major studios such as Obsidian, Zenimax Online Studios, and id Software.

Microsoft could be making a major change to how it manages future Halo games. According to gaming insider NateTheHate, the iconic first-person-shooter franchise is reportedly being moved under Activision Blizzard as part of a wider Xbox reorganization.

Xbox is reportedly planning another major shake-up which could see studios and franchises shifted around within the organisation, as well as hundreds of employees being laid off.

Hornsby & Halo #16 finds the Deadtones rocking Warwick while parents everywhere turn monstrous, proving family drama truly never dies.