Halo Infinite

Play it on: Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Windows (Steam Deck YMMV)

My current goal: Get at least one overkill…but I’ll settle for a triple

Oh, Halo. You know, if I wasn’t in a line of work where I had to pay attention to more popular games, Halo is pretty much all I would play. And I don’t care that it’s not doing well as a live-service game right now. I don’t play games to buy things in microtransaction shops or complete battlepasses. I want games to give me more reasons to spend less money. Halo didn’t have any of that stuff in the glory years of the 2000s, and Infinite currently features some of the best gameplay the series has ever had. It doesn’t need to be the world’s most popular game for me to love it; it just needs to be fun for me.

But it has been a while since I’ve strapped on some Spartan armor and gotten into a few skirmishes with folks, so this weekend I think I’ll check out some of the new maps from the latest season and maybe download a unique Forge creation or two. — Claire Jackson