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For Halo Infinite, the team at 343 Industries built more than a game. They also developed a brand-new game engine, Slipspace. Now, the studio has spoken a bit more about what that engine allows the team to do–and it sounds like a lot.

Halo franchise director Frank O’Connor said in a video that the Slipspace engine was designed for “next-generation” game development, and also to be easier to work with.

“We had to create an engine that was more powerful for next-generation development, but also more nimble, so the creatives and engineers are able to work more easily and iterate faster,” he said. “This technical groundwork is vital to build a platform for the future of Halo.”

Engineering director David Berger said in the video that the Slipspace engine allows the team at 343 to do things that were not possible with the previous game-making tools. “You have to make tools that allow you to make new features that allow you to make features that weren’t thought about [before]. You’ve gotta give the content-creators room to ideate outside of that,” he said.

Multiplayer director Tom French, meanwhile, said one of the benefits of the Slipspace engine is that it allows the team to try new things more quickly than before.

“Designers are more empowered themselves to actually tackle a problem and prototype something quicker and faster than we’ve ever done before,” he said.

Interestingly, eagle-eyed fans spotted a reference to a grappling hook in this new behind-the-scenes video. However, O’Connor downplayed the significance of this, saying it’s not necessarily a feature that will be in Halo Infinite.

In another intriguing piece of news, 343 community manager Brian Jarrard recently teased that he was in the office on a Saturday for a playtest. He’s presumably referencing Halo Infinite, and if the team is working on the weekend, the studio might be gearing up for some kind of announcement soon. Halo Infinite is launching later this year, and there will be beta tests beforehand, so it is high time for Microsoft to finally show and say more about it.

Halo Infinite is a launch title for Xbox Series X (and any other next-gen Xbox consoles Microsoft may be working on), while it will also play on the regular Xbox One, as well as PC.

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Director Bong Joon-ho’s thriller Parasite won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, at the 92nd Academy Awards and did something no film in history has ever done.

Parasite is the first non-English language movie to win Best Picture. It beat out the other Best Picture nominees, which included JoJo Rabbit, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman, Joker, Marriage Story, 1917, Little Women, and Ford v Ferrari.

Parasite also won Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay as part of its four Academy Award wins.

Parasite also won the top honor at the Cannes Films Festival in May, winning the highly coveted Palme d’Or award. It’s the first movie since 1955’s Marty to win the Palme d’Or and Best Picture.

Parasite has made more than $165 million worldwide at the box office. Here at GameSpot, we also named Parasite our No. 1 movie of 2019.

“Parasite is the kind of film that will stick with you for days, and make you want to talk about it,” Chastity Vicencio wrote. “It’s thrilling, stressful, at times hilarious, and haunting. It takes you on an unforgettable ride resulting in an ending that you will never see coming. The class divide at the heart of the film is something that is universally relatable, and will make you question your own biases. Bong Joon-ho is a master filmmaker.”

Following the huge success of Parasite, HBO announced that it was adapting the movie for a new TV series. The limited series will add more depth and detail to the story. “So I had all these key ideas accumulated from when I started writing the script,” the director said. “I just couldn’t include all those ideas in the two-hour running time of the film, so they’re all stored in my iPad and my goal with this limited series is to create a six-hour-long film.”

For more on the 92nd Academy Awards, check out GameSpot’s full rundown of all the winners.

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