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Halo Infinite Fans Fight Over Gun Not Yet In The Game
I can’t wait to see how low my teammate Zack’s accuracy is with this thing.Image: 343 Industries In the year since it’s been publicly playable, the multiplayer shooter Halo Infinite hasn’t received a single new weapon. But if recent leaks are to be believed, a new gun—the so-called bandit rifle, which looks a lot like the DMR from prior Halo games—could join Infinite’s armory soon. Naturally, players are already up in arms over it. Halo Infinite’s free-to-play multiplayer mode, first launched with a series of betas and later in the fall as a full release, is based on a seasonal model, with new maps, modes, and cosmetics (some free, some…
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Netflix Buys Boss Fight Entertainment as It Builds Out Gaming Business
Netflix said on Thursday that it was buying Boss Fight Entertainment, a small independent video game studio based in Allen, Texas, as the video streaming company pushes further into the lucrative video game market. The acquisition of Boss Fight, a mobile game developer with 130 employees, is Netflix’s third studio purchase since it set its sights on the gaming industry last summer. The company bought a studio called Night School in September, and this month it bought Next Games. Netflix would not say how much it paid for Boss Fight. Netflix has far fewer development studios compared with companies like Microsoft and Sony, which produce gaming consoles and hit titles…
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West Side youth face off with Chicago police in water balloon fight
James Solis stood in the parking lot of a shuttered Chicago Public School drenched in water, trying to catch his breath. The recent high school graduate, along with other West Side kids, some as young as 6, was in a massive water balloon fight Friday afternoon, but they weren’t targeting each other. Instead, their opponents were nearly a dozen Chicago police officers. “I think this kind of helps make the relationship better because there is a lot of head butting with people in authority and young kids like ourselves,” Solis said. “It gets us to a common ground that not all police are bad and not all kids are bad…
