This week, YouTuber and Kick streamer Jack Doherty crashed his $200,000 McLaren sports car during broadcast, resulting in him being permanently banned from the latter platform. Additionally, The Weather Channel used its Unreal-based storm visualization tool to give viewers a good idea of how bad Hurricane Milton’s devastation might have been leading up to the storm’s arrival in Florida, and the results were incredibly effective.
In more traditional gaming news, the people behind it halo announced a rebrand from 343 Industries to Halo Studios and also announced that they would be switching from the proprietary tools called Slipstream to Unreal. We got our first look at Master Chief and the signature halo Landscape as they look in the popular engine. Nintendo is now no doubt aware that millions of fans are waiting with bated breath for details about the Switch’s successor, and took the opportunity to announce…an alarm clock! It’s clearly a move on Nintendo’s part, and it’s garnered plenty of hilarious and angry reactions across the internet. We’ve rounded up some of the best.
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