If you want a shot at playing the remastered version of Halo: Reach, you’re chance to do so will be coming soon. Windows Central initially reported that 343 Industries and Microsoft are hosting the Halo: Reach PC beta at participating Microsoft stores as part of the E3 2019 Fan Celebrations on June 9.
However, Microsoft has reached out to us to express that the listing of the Halo: Reach PC beta as part of the E3 2019 event is incorrect. The event is taking place at stores as mentioned, but the beta itself will be launching in June for testers to play at home.
The stores that host the E3 2019 event will have additional attractions. There will be prizes raffled off for Xbox fans and Microsoft’s E3 2019 briefing will be shown before Gears of War competitions kick off. Microsoft will have a massive presence at E3 2019 but this serves as a fun option for those not able to travel out to California to attend. Sony, which isn’t attending E3 for the first time since the event’s inception, has done similar events in movie theaters during E3 but will likely relegate any PlayStation news to a State of Play stream in June.
For those that have been waiting to get their hands on the Halo: Reach beta, this should be exciting news. 343 Industries initially planned to start a beta phase for Halo: Reach in April, but it was delayed indefinitely later that month. This newly revealed event seems like the first test and should result in the game rolling out to Halo Insider program participants during the event or soon after.
Coupled with the reveal that Halo: The Master Chief Collection will be coming to PC gamers, 343 Industries announced that Halo: Reach will be coming to Xbox One and PC players as well. The 2010 release is getting a makeover so it matches the rest of the collection, reaching 60FPS and 4K with HDR on compatible hardware.
In late April, 343 Industries shared it will be pulling back a bit from additional development on Halo Wars 2 and non-Reach titles on Xbox One so it can focus on finishing The Master Chief Collection and Reach. With this event and the eventual rollout of the beta in the coming months, the development studio should be nearing the launch for both Halo: Reach and The Master Chief Collection before too long.
Imagine tapping a Zelda icon on your iPhone and jumping straight into Hyrule. A new open-source project called nxnative makes that possible by repackaging Switch games you’ve bought into apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with no emulator in the middle.
Why does this run so well on Apple devices?
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”