June 19 in the United States is celebrated Juneteenth or the Day of the Liberation of slaves. The creators of Halo Infinite decided to celebrate the event and added a new coloring to the game on the eve of the holiday. That’s just its name was very disliked by gamers.

Last week, the first place in the Steam bestseller chart was again taken by the Halo Infinite story campaign. But Cyberpunk 2077 and FIFA 22 this time could not get into the list of the best-selling games of the week.

The Halo Infinite story campaign, released on December 8, proved to be excellent in sales. Last week, she took the first place in the Steam bestseller chart, displacing the Icarus survival simulator from the creator of DayZ. Also in the top ten best-selling games of the week were the shooters Thunder Tier One and GTFO.

On the morning of December 10, a large-scale ceremony of The Game Awards 2021 was held, at which the best games of the past year were awarded and new items were announced. Many gamers were satisfied with the show, but the stock market did not react to this. The share price of public companies whose games were shown on TGA has hardly changed.

Yesterday, Microsoft, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Xbox and the Halo franchise, opened access to the free-play beta of the Halo Infinite multiplayer — three weeks earlier than planned. In the first hours after the release of the game, its online on Steam exceeded 270 thousand people.

The launch of the Xbox Series X is scheduled for November, Microsoft first reported. At the same time, at the start, the next-generation console will remain without the main exclusive in the face of Halo Infinite, which unexpectedly moved next year.Despite the fact that Microsoft planned to release its next-generation console at the end of this year, even an approximate release window was not called until that moment.

The lead producer of Halo Infinite has left 343 Industries. She has been in this position for no more than two months. In addition, this is the second dismissal from the project managers in recent months.