The Halo Remake Is a Metaphor for the Xbox Mess

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Jul 24, 202600:59:42Games & Hobbies

In the back half of this week’s episode, we chat about Halo: Campaign Evolved, a video game that has the misfortune of representing everything infuriating about the modern Xbox strategy. Fortunately, other games exist. T...

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