Xbox Showcase 2026: Halo Remake, Fable and 30 Reveals
Microsoft marked 25 years of Xbox with a Games Showcase headlined by a full remake of the original Halo, a Fable reboot and more than 30 reveals in one night.
- The Xbox Games Showcase 2026 streamed on Sunday, June 7, at 7 p.m. Belgrade time to mark 25 years of the Xbox brand.
- Microsoft revealed Halo: Campaign Evolved, a remake of the 2001 original in Unreal Engine 5, coming to PlayStation 5 and day one on Game Pass.
- Playground Games showed off a full reboot of Fable, with an open world and a new combat system.
- The show packed in more than 30 reveals, followed immediately by a dedicated Gears of War: E-Day Direct.
Wondering whether Xbox is still in the race after all the talk of losses and cancelled exclusives? After this night, the answer is a clear yes. On Sunday evening, right at 7 p.m. our time, Microsoft ran a Games Showcase to mark 25 years of the brand and, frankly, to reset the whole conversation around the platform.
The tone felt different from past years. Fewer empty promises, more firm dates and games you can actually play without buying a new console. And two names carried the entire evening.
What did Microsoft actually announce?
The biggest bombshell was Halo coming back in the form fans have been asking for. Halo: Campaign Evolved is a remake of the original 2001 campaign, rebuilt from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5. It is not just a prettier coat of paint. It packs split-screen and four-player co-op, cross-platform play, nine classic weapons and three brand-new prequel missions that expand the story before the events of the original.
The headline for the whole brand is where all of this lands. Halo: Campaign Evolved is coming to the PlayStation 5, day one on Game Pass. A couple of years ago, Halo on a Sony console would have been an unthinkable sentence. Now it is part of a new strategy where Xbox is no longer a wall around its games but a service that travels everywhere.
The second big name is Fable, a full reboot in the hands of Playground Games, the studio behind Forza Horizon. Microsoft showed an open world and a new combat system, with the series’ trademark dry British humor intact. After a long wait, the game finally looks like something genuinely in the works rather than a logo on a slide.
Was there more to the show than two big names?
Yes, and plenty of it. The presentation ran through more than 30 reveals, so almost anyone could find at least one name for their wishlist. Microsoft announced Resident Evil Veronica and Alien: Isolation 2 for the horror crowd, Final Fantasy VII Revelation for those following the Square Enix saga, and the full Palworld 1.0 release after a long stretch in early access.
It paid to stick around to the end, too. Right after the main show, Microsoft aired a separate Gears of War: E-Day Direct from The Coalition, devoted to the next entry in the series. That is exactly the kind of double feature that shows the platform has something to offer beyond its biggest franchises.
For our audience, the most important takeaway is this: most of the announced titles arrive on Game Pass from day one, so you do not have to buy each game separately just to try it. On top of that, Halo and a few other games are landing on PlayStation as well, which means the line between the two camps is quietly fading. After years of more talk about problems than about games, this was a night where Xbox had something to say.
So what pulls you in more, the nostalgic return of Halo or a completely new Fable?
