This week, YouTuber and streamer Kick Jack Doherty crashed his $200,000 McLaren sports car while streaming and was permanently banned from the latter platform. Additionally, the Weather Channel used an Unreal-powered storm visualization tool to give viewers a good look at how much damage Hurricane Milton could have caused in the lead-up to the storm’s arrival in Florida, and the results were extremely effective.
In more classic gaming news, the people behind them Halo announced its brand change from 343 Industries to Halo Studios, and also revealed that it is moving away from proprietary tools known as Slipstream to Unreal. We get an early look at both Master Chief and the signing Halo landscape as they appear in the popular engine. Meanwhile, Nintendo, undoubtedly aware that millions of fans are waiting with bated breath for any details about the Switch’s successor, took the opportunity to announce… an alarm clock! This is clearly a move by Nintendo that has sparked plenty of hilarious and irritating reactions across the internet. We’ve collected some of the best.
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