Following recent news that Halo Studios has canceled an unannounced Halo project, the studio has officially announced that Halo: Campaign Evolved has gone gold, meaning that, less than a year after the game was announced , initial development has officially concluded. Given how close the game is to launch, the studio will likely move on to preparing for launch and testing for any day-one patches that may be necessary. The announcement that the game has gone gold by no means indicates that it will launch in a perfect state—Borderlands 3 was famously riddled with performance and stability issues and had missing features at launch, and that game went gold nearly two months before launch .

Halo: Campaign Evolved is slated to launch on July 28 , and it is meant to be a remake of the original Combat Evolved experience with nine additional weapons, the ability to hack and pilot new vehicles, more difficulty levels, and updated graphics. Campaign evolved is built on Unreal Engine 5, so there are questions about how difficult the game will be to run. The development cycle of Halo: Campaign Evolved has also hardly been drama-free, with the studio facing backlash from fans after it was reported that generative AI was being heavily used in the development of Campaign Evolved .