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Report: Halo Infinite Won’t Get Story DLC, Series Switching To Unreal
Things are changing at Halo developer 343 Industries following massive layoffs across Microsoft — including reportedly 95 people at the Halo developer. The studio is switching to Unreal Engine, has no plans to make more story content for 2021’s Halo Infinite, and continues trying to figure out what to do with a supposed Halo battle…
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Everything We Saw At Today’s Xbox Developer Direct
Today Microsoft held its Developer Direct presentation, focusing on a number of new games coming to Xbox, PC, and Game Pass. We got a fresh look at some anticipated titles, as well as a neat little rhythmic surprise from the developers of The Evil Within. But enough chatter, let’s get into what Microsoft showed off…
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343, Hit By Layoffs And Key Departures, Says It Will Keep Making Halo
When Microsoft — a company that made “$US198 billion ($AU283.7 billion) in revenue and $US83 billion ($AU118.9 billion) in operating income” in 2022 — made the decision to axe 10,000 workers last week, a number of those came from their video game operations, particularly 343 Industries, the overseers of the Halo series.
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5 Classic Retro Games You Can Play For Free
In the down moments of playing a distressingly long Mario Party 2 game this weekend — my friends get a garbage truck full of NES and Super NES games with their Nintendo Switch Online membership — I started wondering what other retro games were only a download away on publishers’ official storefronts.