News onHalo Infinitehas been nearly nonexistent since Microsoft and 343 Industries announced earlier this year that the next-gen shooter would bedelayed to 2021. Ahead of what is likely the year’s largest remaining video game event, The Game Awards, some fans have started to theorize that perhapsInfinitecould reappear at the showing next month. It turns out, however, this won’t be the case.
In a thread over onReddit, 343 Community Director Brian Jarrard confirmed that the studio has no plans to show offHalo InfiniteduringThe Game Awards. That being said, it doesn’t sound as though there will continue to be a lingering silence around the project for long.
“Full disclosure we don’t have anything planned for the VGAs, but are hoping to offer at least a high level update within the next few weeks so we can kind of restart this journey together after the holidays,” Jarrard said in response to questions ofInfiniteappearing at the event. “Pulling together something like a demo or big beat for the VGAs is an enormous amount of work and would cause challenges with current milestones of the holidays. I know it’s hard to wait, but the team is going to make the most of this extra time and we want to make sure we can put our best foot forward and commit to greater transparency and dialog on the road ahead. We’ll get there and get the train going again.”
This is perhaps unsurprising in some regards and it continues to show that 343 is clearly keeping its cards close to the chest until it has something more to show ofInfinite. Still, I am curious to see what this “high level update” Jarrard mentioned will feature. At this point, any new trailers or gameplay seems to be out of the question, but I imagine the studio will provide some general guidance on what it plans to do in order to launch the game next year.
For now, all we really know aboutHalo Infiniteis that it’s planned to release next year acrossXbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC. As for The Game Awards, this year’s event is set to occur on December 10. Even ifHaloitself doesn’t end up appearing, perhaps something else from Xbox Game Studios will.
