Welp, after all the heaps of praise that the Halo Infinite tech test got a few weeks ago, 343 has come forward and announced that Halo Infinite will not launch with co-op or Forge.

So after a delay of an entire year, Halo Infinite will launch without a feature that has been in the franchise, at launch, for 20 years.

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So there are unconfirmed reports this week that among Microsoft's company-wide layoffs, around half of the staff of 343 Industries is included in the fallout.

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Such a shame that the Halo 3 nostalgia wave ended with something like this.

A bit ago, Halo fans received news that famed map maker MultiLockOn had received a job offer from 343 Industries. The hiring process had apparently gone so far that he had quit his job at Treyarch, taking a $10k / year pay cut, putting a $2k down payment on an apartment in Bellevue, and was in the middle of moving his possessions across the country...

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Alright, some more Halo news.

Bonnie Ross is gone.

343 Industries, as of today, has a new Studio Head, Franchise GM, and Business and Operations Overseer, so we can assume that Frank O'Connor and Kiki Wolfkill have also gotten the boot.

The new Studio Head was the one leading the charge on fixing MCC.

I'm totally not going to take credit for this when I uninstalled Infinite last week.

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