{"id":724487,"date":"2026-08-02T13:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724487\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:59:14","slug":"halo-campaign-evolved-fizzles-on-ps5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724487\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Halo: Campaign Evolved&#8221; Fizzles On PS5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/halo-campaign-evolved-fizzles-on-ps5.jpg\" data-caption=\"Microsoft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/halo-campaign-evolved-fizzles-on-ps5.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"halo-campaign-evolved-fizzles-on-ps5\"\/><\/a>Microsoft<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s \u201cHalo: Campaign Evolved\u201d recently launched on the PlayStation 5, but new data suggests barely anyone noticed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tech4gamers.com\/halo-captured-1-playstation-players\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tech4Gamers<\/a> reports that across its launch week, the title had the 4th highest daily active users across Xbox Series X|S consoles \u2013 which was around 8% of the said daily active users.<\/p>\n<p>It was 14th highest on Steam, or around 2%, and a woeful 29th place on PlayStation \u2013 engaging just 1% of daily active users for this remaster of the original \u201cHalo: Combat Evolved\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The low uptake has stirred debate \u2013 some say the \u201cHalo\u201d franchise\u2019s appeal has long faded.  Others say PlayStation users stick to Sony exclusives and live-service hits.<\/p>\n<p>The game pulled in a pretty good 80\/100 with critics on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/halo-campaign-evolved\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metacritic<\/a>, but audience votes have trashed it at 5.7\/10.  Some of that ties to forced Microsoft account linking for the PS5 version, but a lot of the reviewers are screaming \u201cDEI\u201d and \u201cWoke\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHalo: Campaign Evolved\u201d is now available on all platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/netflix-sued-by-producer-over-fortitude\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix Sued By Producer Over \u201cFortitude\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft Microsoft\u2019s \u201cHalo: Campaign Evolved\u201d recently launched on the PlayStation 5, but new data suggests barely anyone noticed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[94966,59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-bigslider","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}