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The next Halo game from Halo Studios was reportedly still years away from launch before Microsoft canceled it this week. Microsoft continued its Xbox “reset” this week by gutting Halo Studios, leaving a skeleton crew to manage existing games in the series, and handing the Halo franchise to Call of Duty company Activision. Activision is setting up a new team to build the next mainline…

This is an IGN opinion piece from Matt Purslow, who was brought up on the golden era of Halo and Half-Life. He loves story-driven FPS campaigns and wishes there was more of them (but perhaps not quite as many as there were in the 2000s – that was pretty excessive.) Halo should be Xbox’s Call of Duty. Of course, thanks to a $69 billion acquisition, Call of Duty is now Xbox’s Call of…

It appears that WWE was trying to trademark the term ‘Vice City,’ before abandoning plans to do so. According to a trademark filing, the initial application was made on August 8, before being deemed “dead’ just over a month later, on September 21. No, it doesn’t appear that WWE was attempting to make its own Grand Theft Auto game, but it was more than likely an attempt to theme something…

Key Preview Takeaways: It’s a much darker art style and tone than we’ve been used to from Hoyoverse. Nodusfall doesn’t have Devil May Cry-type combat, but it does make you feel cool while in combat. It’s definitely not a soulslike (in a good way). They told us that the Maldrake, the last of the three bosses my team squadded up against in Nodusfall, would be the one that…