This week, YouTuber and Kick streamer Jack Doherty crashed his $200,000 McLaren sports car while live streaming, an incident that resulted in him being permanently banned from the latter platform. In addition, The Weather Channel used storm visualization tools powered by Unreal to give viewers a clear understanding of how severe the damage Hurricane Milton caused before the storm reached Florida, and the results were very effective.
In more traditional gaming news, the people behind faint Announcing the name change from 343 Industries to Halo Studios, and revealing that they are moving from a proprietary tool called Slipstream to Unreal. We’ve got a first look at Master Chief and Signature faint The scenery they see in popular engines. Meanwhile, Nintendo is no doubt aware that millions of fans are waiting with bated breath for any details about the Switch successor, and has taken the opportunity to announce… an alarm clock! This is clearly a move by Nintendo, and it’s caused no shortage of hilarious and angry reactions online. We’ve collected some of the best.
All these stories and more await you in the chapters that follow.