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  • The Top 15 Halo Multiplayer Maps

    The Top 15 Halo Multiplayer Maps

    kotakuinternational

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    By my own rough count, the Halo series has seen some 150 or so multiplayer maps over the course of its two decades. Many of these are good. Some are great. And of course, some are terrible. For this list, I and my fellow Kotaku Halo fans tried to narrow this extensive field down to…

  • Halo Infinite Vs. Battlefield 2042: Battle Of The Betas

    Halo Infinite Vs. Battlefield 2042: Battle Of The Betas

    Ari Notis

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    The holidays come a little early this year for fans of first-person shooters. On November 19, EA will publish Battlefield 2042, a game about how, in the wake of catastrophic climate change, we’ll still all shoot each other for scraps. That’s followed on December 8 by Halo Infinite, the sixth mainline entry in Microsoft’s flagship…

  • Why Halo Infinite’s Bots Act So Much Like People

    Why Halo Infinite’s Bots Act So Much Like People

    Ari Notis

    Last month, developer 343 Industries hosted a beta — fine, a “technical test” — for Halo Infinite’s competitive multiplayer mode. Those selected for participation were given a chance to test-drive one shaky server, three maps, and about a dozen-odd weapons for the long-anticipated first-person shooter, plus a brand-new addition to the series: bots. Also, the…