Screenshot: 343 Industries For a while now, the prevailing narrative around Halo Infinite is that interest in the game, once confidently perched at the summit of Mt. First-Person Shooter, has fallen off a precipice. But that stands poised to change when season two, “Lone Wolves,” rolls around on May 3. Folks, it sounds (and looks) …
Image: Paramount / Microsoft It only took one Speilberg exit and one decade of development hell, but a show based on Halo is finally here. I can’t believe I’m typing this: It’s actually good. Surprisingly so, though it’s not absent any cause for concern. Perhaps this is a case of low expectations. Initial trailers teased …
Image: Moon Studios Moon Studios’ Ori games are some of the most excellent and beautiful platformers around. Some developers now claim that the same can’t be said for the founders of the studio that made them. According to a new report by VentureBeat, current and former developers say Moon could be an “oppressive” place to …
Screenshot: 343 Industries Maybe you’ve maxed out the battle pass. Maybe you’re distracted by the embarrassment of riches in gaming right now. Whatever the reason, if you’ve bounced off Halo Infinite, there’s immediate grounds to return: the ongoing “Tactical Ops” event. Tactical Ops, which started last Tuesday and runs through next Tuesday, is the latest …
Image: Microsoft The Xbox Series X and S have lots of quality-of-life touches that look small on paper but vastly improve the experience of playing games in practice. One of those is Quick Resume, which makes it easy to swap between several games at once, and a new update makes it even more robust. Currently, …
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Image: 343 / Microsoft / Kotaku The Master Chief has long been the helmeted hero of humanity through multiple games, comics, books, and spin-offs. But after 20 years of hiding his face, it’s been confirmed that the upcoming Paramount+ TV show will unmask the iconic character. In an interview with IGN, Halo TV show executive …
Screenshot: Remedy / Smilegate I really, really wanted to like Catalyst, the new campaign developed by Remedy Entertainment and released for free-to-play shooter CrossfireX earlier this month. Remedy, the developer behind great games like Control and Alan Wake, is one of my favorite out there, and while I wasn’t thrilled about them making a campaign …
Image: Electronic Arts While the game has its fans (hi!), there’s no escaping the fact that in a wider context Battlefield 2042’s launch has been a disaster for Electronic Arts. Fan reception has been hostile, playercounts have dropped like a stone and the company won’t even disclose how many copies of the game have been …
Halo Infinite’s creation mode, Forge, isn’t supposed to come out until way later this year, but apparently leaked early footage has started making the rounds this week. It looks amazing. Forge, which has been a staple of the first-person shooter series since 2007’s Halo 3, allows players to customize their own multiplayer maps from scratch, …