Third-person mode is coming to Halo Infinite next month.
Developer 343 Industries confirmed the “new way to play” at this weekend’s 2024 Halo Championships and then again in a brief post to X/Twitter.

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Games Done Quick is holding a Disaster Relief Done Quick fundraiser for those affected by Hurricane Helene.
From 11th – 13th October, Disaster Relief Done Quick will collect donations for Direct Relief, “a humanitarian aid organisation with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies – without regard to politics, religion, or ability to pay”.

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A nod to Silent Hill 2’s disastrous HD Collection remake is hidden away in Silent Hill 2 Remake: the infamous Silent Hill Ranch sign.
Along with Maria’s nightmare-fuel orthodontic rearrangement, one of the most egregious things to come out of the 2012 version for some was the tragically comical Silent Hill Ranch sign, which was written in Comic Sans.

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If you’ve been impatiently awaiting the arrival of Commandos: Origins since its announcement last year, here’s the next best thing; Claymore Game Studios’ revival of the classic WW2 real-time stealth-tactics series now has a PC and Xbox demo ahead of its release later this year.

The Commandos series, if your history is a little hazy, first surfaced in 1998 with the release of developer Pyro Studios’ classic (and rock-hard) Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines. Since then, there’ve been five additional instalments, the series eventually fizzling out with the launch of 2006’s first-person effort, Commandos: Strike Force.

Commandos: Origins, though, takes the series back to its roots, delivering a stealthy World War 2 prequel adventure in which players guide the origi…

Steam has removed the binding arbitration clause and class-action waiver in its subscriber agreement.
The controversial requirement was dropped when Valve started circulating its updated Steam Subscriber Agreement (SSA) earlier today.

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72 percent of players reported an “uplift in mood” whilst playing PowerWash Simulator.
That’s according to the results of a first-of-its-kind study commissioned in 2022, which analysed data from over 8500 players across almost 40 countries, including the US and the UK.

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We already knew it was coming this October, but Batman: Arkham Shadow – the promising VR take on Rocksteady’s acclaimed superhero series – now has a proper release date. It’s launching for Meta Quest 3 and the newly announced Meta Quest 3S on 22nd October this year.

Arkham Shadow – officially a canonical entry in the Arkhamverse – whisks players back in the timeline, taking place before the events of Rocksteady’s Arkham Asylum, but after Warner Bros. Montreal’s Arkham Oranges. It’ll feature the likes of Harley Quinn, Scarecrow, Two-Face, and Jim Gordon, with series newcomer Ratcatcher also set to appear.

Gameplay wise, it’s pretty much business as usual for the series, with stealth, fisticuffs, grappling, gadgets, and Detective Vision all present – the obviou…

Ubisoft has played down the suggestion that Assassin’s Creed Shadows sales will suffer as a result of its delay into 2025 – the same year we know the recently-announced Ghost of Yōtei will also arrive.

Both games are set in feudal Japan, and Ghost of Yōtei’s unveiling during Sony’s State of Play broadcast this week received a warm reception.

But, speaking to investors via an impromptu financial briefing last night, Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot said there was room for both games to do well.

“There is a lot of space for high-quality games, and those two games can sell very well,” Guillemot said.

“On the competition relative to Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the focus is really to make sure we deliver a fantastic experience, and with the game’s…

Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime left the company he started up in 1991 with his university classmate because he was tired of constantly butting heads with Bobby Kotick.
An excerpt from Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier’s upcoming book Play Nice: The Rise And Fall Of Blizzard Entertainment has shed more light on Morhaime’s departure from the company in 2018.
According to Schreier, the Blizzard co-founder was tired of fighting the former Activision CEO on a myriad of issues. Problems reportedly began around six years after Blizzard and Activision merged to become Activision Blizzard, with the cancellation of a World of Warcraft successor project known as Titan.

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Dan Hay, the former frontman of numerous entries in Ubisoft’s Far Cry series, is now leading a team working on a new StarCraft shooter.

The detail comes from Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier’s upcoming book on Blizzard, Play Nice, and was discussed with Schreier ahead of its publication during an IGN podcast first aired last night.

Hay, who joined Blizzard in 2022, is now said to be working on the company’s third attempt at a StarCraft shooter, following the infamously-cancelled StarCraft Ghost, and a second similar project codenamed Ares that also never saw the light of day.

There’s little detail on the new project – Schreier says he did not include the “nugget” as a scoop, rather to show Blizzard returning yet to again to a similar idea. Still, it’s th…