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As of this week, Xbox announced a new collaboration with Fanta that will impact a handful of its games. Titles like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty: Warzone, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and Diablo IV will qualify to unlock in-game rewards for customers who scan Fanta packaging when they hit store shelves in April. In addition, Halo: Campaign Evolved and Forza Horizon 6 players will be able to get rewards of their own once these games launch. For Halo, in particular, players will be able to snag a bright orange and yellow skin for Master Chief that resembles a Fanta can.
To explain how this impacts the launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved, one user on Reddit looked back at previous collaborations like this between Xbox and other food/beverage companies and found that they lasted on average between two and three months. If this timeline were to play out once again, it would imply that Halo: Campaign Evolved has to release at some point in this window in order for players to be able to reap the benefits from this Fanta collab. The most logical choice for Xbox to then release the game would be in tandem with its upcoming Xbox Games Showcase, which was recently confirmed for June 7th. Doing so wouldn’t only be in line with other shadow-dropped games that Xbox has released before, but it would certainly make the Xbox Games Showcase that much more thrilling.
This Release for Halo: Campaign Evolved Would Make a Lot of Sense
On paper, it would be pretty logical for Halo: Campaign Evolved to release in June. When looking at Xbox’s upcoming slate of releases, this summer is pretty barren. Titles like Fable and Gears of War: E-Day are known to be launching later in the year, but following the release of Forza Horizon 6 in May, it doesn’t look like Xbox will be releasing anything for multiple months in a row. As such, letting loose Halo: Campaign Evolved in this window would make a lot of sense and would keep Xbox’s momentum up.
