Halo Infinite update adds new mode six months after development ended

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Halo Infinite is still getting updates in 2026, despite ongoing development ending in late 2025. The new Firefight mode sounds cool.

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Halo Infinite is really living up to its name. Six months after developer Halo Studios announced the end of Infinite 's major content updates, the live-service shooter just got a brand-new mode out of the blue. Well, this is a pleasant surprise.

Released in 2021, Halo Infinite was initially planned as a decade-long, perpetually evolving platform for Halo multiplayer modes. Four years into its run, Halo Studios shifted its development teams to other games: the forthcoming Halo Campaign Evolved remake , plus other "multiple Halo titles in development," which many fans of the series assume will either pick up the story where Infinite left off, roll out the next iteration of Halo multiplayer ( Campaign Evolved won't have competitive modes), or both. Around the same time, the Halo Championship Series pro-gamer circuit entered hiatus, leading everyone to assume Infinite would enter its life support era.

Well, at least some people at Halo Studios are still working on the game. Halo Studios announced a new mode this week for Infinite called Firefight: Gauntlet. It's a riff on Firefight, the PvE mode that's long been a staple of Halo games but was only added to Infinite in 2023. In Firefight: Gauntlet, you and up to three other players have to fight your way through waves of enemies across five different maps (or "combat ranges," to use the developer's verbiage). Between each map, you can resupply your ammo, pick up power weapons (though why you would ever leave the Battle Rifle behind is beyond me), or augment yourself with stat boosts on attributes like your damage, speed, or shield regeneration.

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