Halo Moves To Unreal, Nintendo Announces...An Alarm Clock, And More Of The Week's Top Stories

This week, YouTuber and Kick streamer Jack Doherty crashed his $200,000 McLaren sports car while broadcasting, an event which has seen him banned from the latter platform permanently. Also, The Weather Channel used its Unreal-powered storm visualization tool to give viewers a good look at just how bad the devastation from Hurricane Milton could have been in the lead-up to the storm’s arrival in Florida, and the results were incredibly effective.

In more traditional gaming news, the folks behind Halo announced a rebrand from 343 Industries to Halo Studios, and also revealed that they were moving from the proprietary tools known as Slipstream to Unreal. We’ve got an early glimpse at both Master Chief and the signature Halo landscape as they look in the popular engine. Nintendo, meanwhile, no doubt aware that millions of fans are awaiting any details on the successor to the Switch with bated breath, took the opportunity to announce...an alarm clock! It’s a distinctly Nintendo move, and one that generated no shortage of hilarious and exasperated reactions from across the interweb. We rounded up some of the best.

All these stories and more await in the pages ahead.