In celebration of Halo’s 15th anniversary, 343 Industries announced on their Halo Waypoint site that a stream was going to be held to commemorate the occasion. And the Internet being the Internet are already talking over possible news, taking cues from the teaser that was put out for the stream:

Those familiar with the soundtracks of the past games have noticed some familiar piano chords towards the end, pinpointing them as being part of the Halo 3 OST. This obviously has fuelled speculation that the stream will be used to reveal a remaster of that game. Either way, you can expect to hear something about Halo Wars 2 and probably Halo 5 as well during the stream.

The stream will occur on Tuesday, November 15th at 3:43PT and will celebrate both the birthday of the original Halo: Combat Evolved game and Halo 2 which released 12 years ago on November 9th.

“The studio is working on a number of cool things to help celebrate this huge milestone which also happens to coincide with the 15^th anniversary of Xbox itself. Mark your calendars now and please plan to join us throughout the day as we collectively celebrate and offer a huge thanks to our community for supporting Halo for 15 years!”

After some details of the expansion were released publicly a few weeks back, Warframe’s newest content was released yesterday in The War Within expansion pack for the game.

The War Within continues the story that was left off in the previously released expansion The Second Dream, as well as adding a new battle mode, new weapons and much more to the game. Remember that the cinematics will put your characters into them as well, so if you want to looking good can become a new priority in-game. Developers Digital Extremes has put out a release trailer for the expansion to demonstrate what players old and new can come to expect.

Check it out below:

VR headsets are a big thing right now, but while the video quality has gotten better and the simulation of ‘hands’ a lot less clunky over time there still remains one big ‘issue’ for VR headsets and they have to do with cables. Most headsets still need them because streaming just can’t handle the amount of visual data needed to simulate a fluid and responsive experience. After all, if done poorly VR headsets can easily make you feel sick.

Some companies are working to eliminate the need for cables though, and one such company TPCAST showed off their wireless adaptor accessory for the HTC Vive at the offices of Chinese internet vendor Alibaba yesterday:

The unit straps to the headset and receives video data and transmits accelerometer data, and apparently has been described as so low latency doing this that it makes “no noticeable difference” in the experience. They are one of several companies who currently working with Valve and HTC to work on wireless technology for Vive.

The doors for pre-orders were opened today to customers and sold through the first batch in just 18 minutes, at $220 per unit. Not bad. A second set of pre-orders for the accessory will be coming next month.

Squad is a very large-scale multiplayer shooter game that’s currently in Steam’s Early Access program. It aims to simulate realistic modern warfare in which both sides have fairly large sides and you need to be constantly vigilanet (with respawning obviously helping to make it seem like both armies are larger than they really are). The game is a spiritual successor to a widely-loved mod for Battlefield 2, Project Reality, and the indie studio behind it grew from the Project Reality team.

Now the game is going to have its first ever free weekend in a bid to attract the players numbers needed to make such large-scale battles work, because you can’t have a fight with 100 players if not that many people are around to join games after all. The game will remain like this until Sunday, November 13th at 1pm Pacific Time, or 9pm UK time. The game is also currently on sale at half its usual selling price and that will last even longer – until Monday 10am Pacific or 5pm UK time.

If you’re not familiar with Squad already, it features vehicle-based combat, combined arms gameplay, large-scale battle environments, voice audio proximity for talking and radio chatter and even base building so you can set up camp. If that sounds like something you could get into, check out Squad’s Steam page to try it out. Then if you like it, take advantage of the £14.99 UK or $19.99 US price to keep it for good.

Dishonored 2 is a hotly anticipated game, thats for sure. A handful of gamers have been able to play it a day early, including myself. I am sad to say however, that the PC version of the game has excessively bad performance issues. While I could detail them all in text, video speaks louder than words.