Halo Studios has set a firm launch date for Halo: Campaign Evolved, its full remake of the original 2001 Halo: Combat Evolved campaign. The new Halo game arrives July 28, with Premium and Collector’s Edition owners getting up to five days of early access starting July 23. Pre-orders are now open across Xbox, Steam, and PlayStation.

New missions add a prequel story arc

Every edition of Halo: Campaign Evolved will include Operation: METEORITE, a new three-mission story arc set one year before the events of the original game. The missions will follow Master Chief and Sgt. Johnson on a covert UNSC operation aboard a Covenant research vessel.

Halo Studios developed the story in collaboration with sci-fi author Troy Denning, whose previous work spans several Halo novels. The studio revealed the first trailer for Operation: METEORITE at the Xbox Games Showcase, showing off new enemy types including the Brute Berserker and a space combat sequence.

Three editions, one pre-order bonus

The Standard Edition is priced at $49.99 and includes the original 10-mission campaign alongside Operation: METEORITE. The Premium Edition runs $69.99 and adds early access, the Alpha Halo Armory Pack with five armor skins and six weapon skins, and a Digital Story & Art Collection that includes a new short story by Denning.

The Collector’s Edition is $199.99 and bundles in a 12-inch Master Chief statue, a light-up Cortana chip, a Steelbook, concept art prints, and a physical game disc for Xbox Series X and PS5.

All pre-orders receive the Foundry Armory Pack, which includes a Classic 2001 Mark V Armor skin and matching Assault Rifle skin, plus two Gilded Onys variants. The Collector’s Edition is exclusive to HaloWaypoint. The game will support cross-play and cross-progression across Xbox Series X|S, PC, and PS5, and will be available on day one with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.

For longtime fans, the arrival of a full remake built in Unreal Engine 5, launching simultaneously on PlayStation for the first time, marks a notable shift in how Microsoft is approaching its biggest franchises.

Think portable PC monitor and something pretty puny probably comes to mind. What you’re probably not imaging is folding contraption with dual 24-inch 1080p displays. What you probably didn’t think of is the extraordinary Acer PD243Y E Portable Monitor.

It’s immediately obvious that the term “portable” is being used pretty liberally by this unusual dual-screen monitor. You’re not going to be slipping it into a small bag with your 13-inch thin-and-light laptop.

ChatGPT is reportedly moving away from chatbots to agents that perform tasks.

OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT into a ‘superapp’, as it looks to win business customers and better compete with Anthropic ahead of its plans to go public later this year.

News of a ‘superapp’ – a desktop app that combines the AI chatbot alongside the company’s coding tool Codex, and Atlas, an AI-powered web browser launched last October – first surfaced in April this year.

Reports, at the time, suggested that the new app, reportedly representing the biggest ChatGPT overhaul since launch, will be led by head of applications Fidji Simo and company president Greg Brockman.

The Financial Times reported that the new app will strongly feature Codex, a move that reflects shifting interests from AI chatbots to agents that perform tasks for users. As one senior OpenAI employee told the publication: “Chat is dead”.

Sources told the publication that the new app would feature functions that direct users towards coding, multimodal generation and applications built by partners including Canva and Booking.com. The changes are expected to begin rolling out in the coming weeks, the publication added.

Earlier this year, the AI giant hired agent-creator OpenClaw’s founder Peter Steinberger to develop the “next generation of personal agents”, while shutting down less profitable ventures such as its Sora video generation model.

OpenAI isn’t alone in this move. Meta, in March, acquired the viral Reddit-style platform for AI agents called Moltbook. The platform joins Meta’s Superintelligence Labs to develop newer use cases for agents to support individual and business users.

While, SaaS giant ServiceNow unveiled a raft of AI-driven products earlier this year to position itself as the ‘AI agent of agents’, and Google launched a slew of new products aimed at simplifying agent management.

Google also made its biggest revamp to Search in 25 years with a Gemini integration, giving users the ability to use AI agents that conduct background tasks.

According to the FT, OpenAI executives view ChatGPT as an introductory tool to encourage pick-up of more higher-value products.

A majority of OpenAI’s 1bn monthly-active ChatGPT customers use the free version of the tool. The company’s website states that it has around 5m business users across industries, while the FT reported that it has 2m businesses under its wing and 5m weekly active Codex users.

The company expects revenue from its business customers, which represents 40pc of its revenue, to grow to 50pc by the end of the year.

An overhaul of ChatGPT comes as reports suggest Anthropic has been capturing a significantly higher portion of first-time enterprise AI customers when compared to OpenAI.

The company, which was relatively quiet about plans to go public, filed for an IPO earlier this month after a funding round that valued it above OpenAI. Estimates suggest the round would take Anthropic soaring above a $1trn valuation.

OpenAI, recently valued at $852bn, is also planning to go public, with new reports suggesting that the company is in talks with the US government in hopes that it purchases some of its shares.

xAI’s parent company SpaceX has also filed for a historic IPO which could value it around $1.75trn. While the AI giants’ Chinese rival DeepSeek is reportedly closing a $7.4bn funding round backed by the country’s National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund.

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Today only, pick up a 13-inch MacBook Air with a 10-core GPU for $899 during B&H’s WWDC Deal Zone event.

Both Apple’s Sky Blue and Midnight colorways are marked down to $899 this Monday, a discount of $300 off the original MSRP for the closeout M4 model.

Buy M4 13″ MacBook Air for $899

This 13-inch spec has a 10-core GPU, 16GB of unified memory, and 512GB of storage. And with free 2-day shipping on orders shipped within the contiguous U.S., you won’t have to wait long to begin using your ultraportable laptop.

With Father’s Day on June 21 and graduation gift-giving in full swing, this 24-hour Deal Zone is worth checking out thanks to its budget-friendly price tag and upgraded GPU.

While the M4 laptop is a last-gen model that was released in 2025, you can still enjoy the same chassis design and two Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) ports as the current M5 model (only at a much lower price point).

B&H’s WWDC Deal Zone ends tonight at 8:59 p.m. Pacific Time, or while supplies last. And if you need a larger screen size, B&H has also slashed prices on 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with discounts of up to $300 off.

SEGA chose the Xbox Games Showcase to revive Crazy Taxi after many years without a new flagship title. The game’s subtitle is World Tour, and it will be launched in 2027. The announcement began with Axel driving the famous yellow taxi. He tears through streets that have the appearance and feel of historic San Francisco, complete with a recognized bridge in the background. The song “All I Want” by The Offspring plays over the footage. Later scenes include a mysterious new driver and hint at action that will take the plot to a new level.

Axel is hot on the trail of the masked thieves who stole his taxi, and he’s on a roll, pursuing them through five places, each with a new and unique challenge. You’ll be able to collect fares at each place while racing against the clock to get your customers from point A to point B. Of course, there’s the thrill of pulling off wild drifts, blasting over jumps, and tackling all of the unexpected chores that arise during your trip. We’ve already demonstrated some of the interesting side elements, such as pizza delivery runs and a fishing mini-game that allows you to unwind in some fantastic locations.

Campaign mode ties everything together with a captivating storyline that spans the globe. As you play, you will earn money by making speedy deliveries and fulfilling missions, all while the bad guys are hot on your heels. When you need a break from the main game, you can switch to Arcade mode, where the goal is to achieve the highest possible score before time runs out. For the competitive sorts, there is Multiplayer, which allows you to compete against friends or strangers online to see who’s the best.

The game will be released for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam, with Xbox Play Anywhere allowing users to play it on both their Xbox console and PC, with progress carried over. Kenji Kanno, the creator of the original Crazy Taxi, is leading the charge on this new game, which SEGA describes as a fresh take on the core gameplay of picking up passengers and transporting them to their destination, wrapped up in a larger story that takes you across a variety of environments. SEGA claims to have used generative AI to help with production; essentially, the AI helped create some of the background aspects.

The game is slated for release in 2027.

Xiaomi has launched the new Xiaomi 17T in India, expanding its premium smartphone lineup with a strong focus on photography and everyday performance. The Xiaomi 17T comes equipped with Leica camera technology, which includes a newly developed 5x telephoto lens. It also features a high-resolution AMOLED panel, a powerful battery, and several AI-driven capabilities.

Xiaomi 17T Features and Specifications

The Xiaomi 17T comes with an elegant look enhanced by micro-curved edges and a finish. The phone’s 6.59-inch AMOLED screen offers sharp visuals and rich color reproduction. The smartphone has a 120Hz screen refresh rate and 3500 nits screen brightness for superior display performance in bright conditions.

The camera system of the 17T is also another feature that makes this product remarkable. To enhance photography, Xiaomi includes a Leica-powered triple-camera system featuring a 50MP main camera and a 50MP telephoto lens with 5x optical zoom. There are some new Leica features related to photography.

However, beyond the camera, the Xiaomi 17T also features powerful built-in hardware and advanced software. They include the 6500 mAh battery that supports 67W charging and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 gaming. The phone can have up to 12 GB of RAM and up to 512 GB of storage, and is preloaded with HyperOS 3 and AI.

Price and Availability

The device comes in three colors and is available in 12GB+256GB and 12GB+512GB configurations. Xiaomi has priced these variants at ₹59,999 and ₹64,999, respectively. Interested buyers can purchase the smartphone from June 10 through Amazon, Mi.com, and Xiaomi retail outlets.