When you start playing the Halo Infinite campaign on December 8, there’s a good chance that you’re going to go on a similar journey to the one that I’ve been on this past week – when I was granted early access to Master Chief’s latest adventure on Xbox Series X. …
Read More »Halo Infinite Battle Pass progression changed for per-match rewards
The first changes to the Halo Infinite Battle Pass progression have arrived in response to feedback from players who felt it wasn’t rewarding enough. The biggest change to Halo Infinite Battle Pass progression is the addition of a new Play 1 Game repeating daily challenge, which will award 50 XP …
Read More »Halo Infinite season 1 first impressions: the good, the bad, and the Craig
Halo Infinite season 1 surprise-launched just a few days ago, but I’ve already sunk nearly 20 hours into it. I’ve played round after round of Team Slayer, ranked Oddball, and Big Team Battle matches, my exclamations changing from shouts to whispers as I play deeper into the night. It’s easy …
Read More »Halo infinite players have already mastered the grappling hook
Following the second multiplayer flight, Halo Infinite players are sharing clips demonstrating the frightening killing potential of the new grappling hook. It’s only been available for a couple of weekends via the two completed beta runs, but Halo Infinite’s grappling hook is already becoming a key feature of the multiplayer …
Read More »Halo Infinite Training Mode sounds like a great way to learn the ropes
There’s going to be a Halo Infinite Training Mode for players to practice multiplayer matches against bots. The new Training Mode for Halo Infinite was actually just unveiled earlier today by in-game Academy designer David Ellis, through the tweets you can see just below. Ellis reveals that the Training Mode …
Read More »Halo Infinite battle pass progression is challenge-based, not XP-based
Halo Infinite players will progress the Halo Infinite Battle Pass via in-game challenges rather than XP. In a tweet earlier today, 343 industries community manager John Junyszek said that playing and winning Halo Infinite matches will offer challenges, “which will help players progress through the Battle Pass.” That means “no …
Read More »Halo Infinite developer “talked about” delaying the game again
Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries reportedly considered delaying the game a second time. Speaking in the latest Halo Infinite development update, creative lead Joseph Staten was asked whether, given the recently-announced delays to campaign co-op and Forge, the team had considered delaying the game again to ensure those features could …
Read More »The voice of Halo multiplayer says “trans rights” and proves he means it in Cameo video
Iconic Halo announcer Jeff Steitzer has released a Cameo video where he speaks out in support of trans rights and, rather powerfully, says “trans rights” in his signature style from the Halo series. Steitzer has lent his voice to every Halo multiplayer experience since Halo 2 and is returning for …
Read More »The Halo Infinite beta makes one hell of a first impression
There were a lot of reasons to be nervous going into the first Halo Infinite technical preview. After suffering multiple delays, and following the decision to split the Campaign and Multiplayer components – with multiplayer launching as a free-to-play experience across the Xbox ecosystem – I was beginning to wonder …
Read More »Meet Twin Suns Corp, the former Halo and Hitman developers building a creative and unexpected AAA action game for console and PC
Supergroups can be risky propositions. Whether in music or in games, it’s easy to think of examples of people who’ve done great work in the past forming groups that add up to less than the sum of their parts. But for Tim Longo, CEO of Twin Suns Corp, it’s not …
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