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A Promising Weekend With Halo Infinite’s Beta
1Over the weekend, 343 Industries let a bunch of eager players check out Halo Infinite’s first public “flight.” On paper, the flight was a technical test, meant to see how the servers perform under pressure and how bots, a series first, would stack up against real-life human players. But, really, it meant one very simple…
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The Best Xbox Demos To Play This Weekend, Before They’re Gone
Back for its second year, the Xbox Summer Game Fest Demo Event — which somehow didn’t get a more palatable name during its time off — puts up 40 demos of unreleased games, generally indies. Over the past few days, two of us — staff writer Ari Notis and weekend editor Zack Zweizen — have…
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Do You See The Penguin?
I found something unexpected in a random cave in Outriders. It’s a formation of rocks and shells that looks a lot like a penguin. Or at least, I think it does. Perhaps I’m just losing my mind after a year of pandemic-induced lockdown.
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What We Loved About Hitman 3
If there’s one thing Kotaku can’t get enough of, it’s Hitman 3. Between the wide-open levels, rapid-fire costume changes, and throwable bananas, IO Interactive’s latest stealth sandbox has enraptured many of us. Three of us (staff writer Ari Notis, staff editor Lisa Marie Segarra, and weekend editor Zack Zweizen) snuck into one of Kotaku’s many…