He was the head of creative on Halo Infinite and cinematic director for first three games.

It's the end of an era this weekend as Joseph Staten is leaving Microsoft. Staten was the head of creative on Halo Infinite and was also the cinematic director on the first three Halo titles. Microsoft confirmed this news on Friday, April 7, 2023.

Microsoft's statement to the public, via IGN, about Staten's departure did not indicate where he may be headed next. There was also no...

Halo is staying with 343 Industries, but there are big changes coming.

After Microsoft announced plans to layoff 10,000 employees, many of which are coming from Xbox studios, the fate of the Halo franchise lingered in limbo. It was initially rumored that main Halo developer, 343 Industries, would be made into a support studio and that other studios would take on main development of future Halo titles.

343 Industries had to make a statement that refutes those claims. In...

343 delivered a nice holiday gift to fans.

The December update for Halo Infinite just dropped and wow is it ever a good one. This update offers up a bunch of new features, a custom game browser, some free cosmetic items, a new map, and several improvements for all available platforms. Best of all, this update is free to everyone.

Today's update includes the addition of the Custom Game Browser. This will let you start and join custom games using any map or mode combination....

The newly released update also includes the Forge Beta, mission replay, and more.

The WInter Update for Halo Infinite dropped today and with it has come some highly anticipated features that many fans say should have been included at launch. New features added to the game today include online co-op, the ability to replay missions, the Forge Beta, and other content that developer 343 Industries say is free to all players.

Online co-op will allow for you and up to three...

343 outlines proposed changes for the Winter update.

Halo Infinite's multiplayer has a lot of problems. From the lack of content, to server stability, to the absolutely awful experience system. Thankfully, 343 Industries will tackle at least one of those issues with the upcoming Winter Update. Sure, 343 Industries did a bit of tweaking to this system in the past, but it really wasn't enough.

When the Winter Update drops on November 8, Halo Infinite players will get to...

Ross will be replaced by Pierre Hintze as the new studio lead.

Bonnie Ross announced her retirement today, citing "a family medical issue" as the main reason for her departure. Ross has been the lead at 343 Industries and the Halo franchise for the past 15 years, having worked at Microsoft and Xbox for 28 years.

In her Twitter post, Ross says she originally intended to leave following the Winter update's release for Halo Infinite. She also says that she is "incredibly...

343's handling of the Halo franchise has left a lot of fans very angry.

343 Industries released the latest roadmap for Halo Infinite today and the news is not exactly great. The roadmap showcases multiple delays, a small amount of new content, and even the outright cancellation of an anticipated feature. The ever shrinking fanbase for Halo Infinite's multiplayer have not taken too kindly to any of this.

Right now in Halo Infinite, the second season has been underway since...

Better start making some friends.

The online campaign co-op feature for Halo Infinite will not feature online matchmaking. This is for both the current beta phase and the final public release.

This news was confirmed by an Xbox representative to GamesRadar. In short, if you aren't planning on playing with friends, you better hope you can find a good looking for group (LFG) Discord server or something.

Here is the full statement that was shared with GamesR...

Those with data caps, you may want to stop playing until a fix is implemented.

If you are still enjoying Halo Infinite's multiplayer mode, you may be upset to hear that something has gone terribly awry with how the menus download and cache data. Or rather in this case: How that data is not cached.

Twitter user @NicmeistaR seems to have discovered that Halo Infinite was downloading a lot of data. He saw that just one match of Halo Infinite multiplayer ate up "305mb" of...

The hotfix driver fixes issues with several popular titles.

If you have an Nvidia graphics card, you may want to pick up the latest hotfix driver release. Nvidia put out a new hotfix driver today for RTX and GTX video cards. This hotfix is based on the latest Game Ready Driver 516.59 and brings the driver version up to 516.79.

Contained in today's hotfix release are a number of fixes for some issues in a handful of newer and more popular games. Particularly of note here...

343 Industries says that the devs who would fix it are working on other things.

An issue that has plagued Halo Infinite's multiplayer mode may not get fixed any time soon, or possibly at all. At seemingly random times, there will be some synchronization issues in multiplayer that lead to situations where melee attacks just flat out don't register. The client and server each think that the players are in different positions than what the player sees on their screen.

On...

343 Industries provides a fresh look at the co-op experience coming soon-ish.

For fans of Halo co-op experiences, the omission of the feature from Halo Infinite's launch did not go unnoticed. Developer 343 Industries said that network campaign co-op would come after launch and well, they seem to be sticking to that statement. Today, the studio shared some new information about Halo Infinite's campaign co-op experience.

First off, the feature will enter into the testing...

Select players will finally get to play through Infinite's campaign with their friends.

343 Industries announced that a beta for campaign co-op will arrive this July for Halo Infinite. Next month, select players will get an opportunity to test things out ahead of a public launch of the co-op feature later this year.

The official Halo account says that the campaign co-op "flight" (ie: "playtest") will be available first to those enrolled as a Halo I...

Season 2 isn't living up to anybody's expectations.

Halo Infinite Season 2 launched earlier this week and it hasn't gone over too well with fans. Players of all skill types have been hit by several new bugs.

Players have complained about the semi-automatic weapons "jamming" on them when firing. Looking through the Halo Infinite subreddit shows several other issues such as not being rewarded for completing weekly challenges, attachments and charms being bugged...

An update so large, it has its own table of contents.

343 Industries and Microsoft released a massive update for Halo Infinite today to kick off the start of Season 2: Lone Wolves. this update changelog is a big one. It's so big that it has its own table of contents, and I probably won't be pasting it here directly.

The update adds in a bit of new content, including the latest Battle Pass, plus "numerous bug fixes," and some new features. This second season for...