Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Coming From Oblivion Remastered Dev – Report

Microsoft and Halo Studios teased an upcoming announcement^[1] earlier this summer to coincide with the Halo World Championships event later this month. While that announcement^[2] is set for a panel on Friday, October 24, an unofficial report indicates that a remake of the original game, Halo: Combat Evolved^[3], is in the works from The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered developer Virtuos.

According to Rebs Gaming^[4], Abstraction, a studio under Virtuos’ umbrella, is co-developing the Halo remake with Halo Studios and handling most of the work. Xbox Era^[5] subsequently corroborated the report, which also states that the remake will utilize a hybrid game engine that utilizes the Halo Reach Engine for the game’s mechanics and Unreal Engine 5 for the visuals. This could potentially be the first version of Halo to hit PlayStation consoles^[6], but that has yet to be confirmed.

Abstraction previously created accessibility features for Halo: The Master Chief Collection, which included the 2011 remake of the first game, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, in which you could switch between the remastered and original visuals on the fly.

Microsoft has previously indicated that multiple Halo projects^[7] are in development. During last year’s Halo World Championships, Microsoft shared A New Dawn^[8], a trailer that revealed future Halo projects will utilize the Unreal Engine, including Project Foundry^[9].

This potential news about the remake comes at a time when the Halo TV series has found a new audience on Netflix^[10], and it’s already become one of the top 10 shows on the streamer. Last month, Halo Infinite added Invasion^[11], a popular asymmetrical multiplayer mode from Halo: Reach.