A Halo Infinite player has discovered a glitch that enables local co-op in Halo Infinite's campaign, months before the feature is planned to be officially released.

In a video posted to Twitter, and reported by Kotaku, user nobleactual posted a few seconds of split-screen multiplayer running in the Halo Infinite campaign. Along with the video, they also explained how you can pull off the glitch as well.

I glitched into campaign coop! #HaloInfinite pic.twitter.com/5j4CclpbtL

— nobleactual (@nobleactual4) December 17, 2021

Before you get too excited to try this for yourself, it's necessary to note there are serious limitations and risk after activating multiplayer. First of all, you can't progress the campaign's story or access FOBs when a second player is in the game. And, player two won't have a HUD, meaning they can't see weapons, ammo, health, or the radar.

So basically, you'll just be able to romp around the world with a second player, without progressing anything. Plus, nobleactual says this may put your save data at risk, as they found their saves refused to load after 10 hours of messing around with the glitch.

Still, to see this fun glitch in action, there are a few steps nobleactual pulled off to make it happen. After making sure Infinite is offline, you connect a second controller and sign in to an Xbox account. Then, you start the campaign with your first controller, hit start and then back, and hit start on the second controller to add the player to the fireteam. That's how some users have been able to enable co-op.

1. Infinite must be offline
2. Connect second controller
3. Sign into an Xbox account
4. Start campaign with controller 1
5. In game, hit start and then back
6. On second controller, hit start to add the second player to the fireteam
7. Halo infinite co-op enabled!

— nobleactual (@nobleactual4) December 17, 2021

If you're still waiting for the official update to Infinite that will add campaign multiplayer, 343 plans to add that highly-anticipated feature along with Forge in May 2022 at the earliest. However, you can play online with friends in Halo Infinite's free-to-play multiplayer, which just got more adjustments to the season 1 battle pass to improve progression

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

A Halo Infinite player has discovered a glitch that enables local co-op in Halo Infinite's campaign, months before the feature is planned to be officially released.

In a video posted to Twitter, and reported by Kotaku, user nobleactual posted a few seconds of split-screen multiplayer running in the Halo Infinite campaign. Along with the video, they also explained how you can pull off the glitch as well.

I glitched into campaign coop! #HaloInfinite pic.twitter.com/5j4CclpbtL

— nobleactual (@nobleactual4) December 17, 2021

Before you get too excited to try this for yourself, it's necessary to note there are serious limitations after activating multiplayer. First of all, you can't progress the campaign's story or access FOBs when a second player is in the game. And, player two won't have a HUD, meaning they can't see weapons, ammo, health, or the radar.

So basically, you'll just be able to romp around the world with a second player, without progressing anything. Plus, nobleactual says this may put your save data at risk, as they found their saves refused to load after 10 hours of messing around with the glitch.

Still, to see this fun glitch in action, there are a few steps nobleactual pulled off to make it happen. After making sure Infinite is offline, you connect a second controller and sign in to an Xbox account. Then, you start the campaign with your first controller, hit start and then back, and hit start on the second controller to add the player to the fireteam. That's how some users have been able to enable co-op.

1. Infinite must be offline
2. Connect second controller
3. Sign into an Xbox account
4. Start campaign with controller 1
5. In game, hit start and then back
6. On second controller, hit start to add the second player to the fireteam
7. Halo infinite co-op enabled!

— nobleactual (@nobleactual4) December 17, 2021

If you're still waiting for the official update to Infinite that will add campaign multiplayer, 343 plans to add that highly-anticipated feature along with Forge in May 2022 at the earliest. However, you can play online with friends in Halo Infinite's free-to-play multiplayer, which just got more adjustments to the season 1 battle pass to improve progression

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

This story does not contain plot spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home, but does discuss an Easter egg that can be spotted during the events of the movie.

Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts has paid homage to Star Wars by recreating the original trilogy in the nerdiest way possible – with LEGO.

This cool (and incredibly nerdy) Easter egg sees Jon Watts re-enact the original Star Wars trilogy via a LEGO Death Star set, from A New Hope through to Return of the Jedi, within his own Spider-Man trilogy.

It all starts back in 2017 with Spider-Man Homecoming. Peter Parker (played by Tom Holland) and his best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) make plans to get together and build a LEGO Death Star – an impressive LEGO set with over 4000 pieces.

Holland and Batalon recently told Comicbook.com that they attempted to make this set themselves… but failed spectacularly.

“We tried to, and it didn’t really work out,” said Batalon.

“We got like ten pages into the instructions and then we were like this is really difficult,” added Holland.

“Yeah, there’s a lot of pieces,” Batalon responded. “Bless [the] people who actually did it.”

Still, the LEGO Death Star ultimately appeared in the movie, and it must have taken Peter and Ned some time to build. Much like in A New Hope, this Death Star has been built to completion.

The set then appears in a hilarious scene when Ned finds out that Peter is Spider-Man. Surprising his friend in his room, Ned discovers Peter's secret… dropping and smashing the Death Star set in shock. This mirrors the destruction of the original Death Star in Star Wars: A New Hope.

Obviously, Peter has more important things to do in Spider-Man: Far From Home – the LEGO Death Star makes no appearance in this movie, in much the same way that there’s a distinct lack of Death Stars in Empire Strikes Back.

Then, in Spider-Man: No Way Home, the LEGO Death Star returns – mirroring the return of a half-built Death Star in Return of the Jedi. Peter Parker’s LEGO Death Star is even unfinished, exactly the same as the Star Wars trilogy. And, echoing the end of Return of the Jedi, Peter’s LEGO Death Star is destroyed, once again, before it can be completed.

Unfortunately, we have no idea whether it was armed and fully operational.

This impressive Star Wars Easter eggs has played out through the Spider-Man trilogy over the course of three films and five years – making Jon Watts arguably the nerdiest Marvel director so far.

It’s even more poignant when you consider that Watts is the first director to complete a trilogy of movies within the MCU – now also completing a trilogy within his trilogy in LEGO form.

Spider-Man: No Way Home debuts in theaters on December 17, 2021. To check out what we thought, take a look at our Spider-Man: No Way Home review. We've also got stories on how the movie was almost about Kraven the Hunter, and Tom Holland's favourite moments from the Sam Rami Spider-Man films.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Warner Bros. has announced that Blue Beetle is now heading to theaters in 2023, instead of its original streaming release.

As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, the Blue Beetle solo movie is now getting a full theatrical release. Originally set to release on HBO Max, it will now instead get a theatrical release on August 18, 2023.

Blue Beetle will star Xolo Maridueña (who starred as Miguel Diaz in Netflix’s Cobra Kai) as the titular DC superhero, who gains superpowers upon finding a suit of alien armour. It will focus on the Mexican-American teen Jaime Reyes – the third character to adopt the Blue Beetle mantle. The film was among a number of super-powered movies being developed for Warner’s HBO Max streaming platform, alongside Batgirl and Static Shock.

It’s also set be DC’s first film about a Latino superhero.

Although little has been revealed about the upcoming Blue Beetle film, fans were recently given a glimpse of his on-screen costume – the Blue Beetle armour – which was revealed at the DC Fandome.

Warner Bros. was originally fast-tracking the project for an exclusive HBO Max premiere after the rumoured Blue Beetle/Booster Gold movie fell through. But now, it looks to play a part in bringing Warner Bros. movies back to theaters.

During the pandemic, Warner Bros. began an industry-shaking approach to distributing its films, revealing that all of its theatrically released movies in 2021 would also be released the same day they premiered on HBO Max.

However, this is due to change as Warner Bros. switches back to theatrical only releases, with upcoming films appearing on HBO Max after an exclusive theatrical window.

“Warner Bros, which sent its entire 2021 slate day-and-date to HBO Max, will resume exclusive theatrical windows in 2022, with its films hitting the streaming service 45 days after entering theaters.”

Blue Beetle is set to be helmed by director Angel Manuel Soto (who directed Charm City Kings) based on a screenplay by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

This story contains minor spoilers for GTA Online's The Contract storyline.

A new update to GTA Online has seemingly confirmed which of the Grand Theft Auto 5's three original endings is canon.

As reported by Kotaku, GTA Online's latest update, The Contract, features dialogue that seems to confirm what happens to Michael following the end of GTA 5. As part of the new missions, you help iconic rapper Dr. Dre in a bid to locate and recover the musician's lost phone and a range of unreleased material that resides on the device.

As part of the hunt for the missing phone, Franklin ends up in a golf cart chase through a movie set. In a bid to catch up with a man who has angered the rapper, Franklin's erratic driving forces the character to exclaim, “Man, shit, I know one of the producers around here. I hope his ass ain’t at work today.” While not specifically referencing the producer by name, it seems almost certain that Franklin is referring to Michael, who in one of GTA 5's endings begins working as a producer on the very same movie set.

For those who weren't quite able to complete GTA 5's campaign, the game has three different endings. While endings A and B see either Trevor or Michael die at the hands of Franklin respectively, Option C ties together the narrative's loose ends in a way that allows all three of the game's protagonists to survive.

Rockstar previously suggested that Option C is the game's intended ending via a dialogue line from Tao Cheng in GTA Online's 2019 Diamond and Casino update, which alluded to events that only take place in the game's third ending. This latest update, it seems, further reinforces that.

While this new line of dialogue seems to finally rule out an ending where Michael dies, a prior update also made a suggestion that Trevor survives the events of GTA 5, too. During the Smuggler's Run update, Ron Jakowski notes that Trevor has "gone all Vinewood" before referring to him indirectly as his "old boss".

With the latest update offering further closure on the events of GTA 5, fans will likely be wondering what's next for the franchise. While a potential sixth installment of the series remains unconfirmed as of yet, reports earlier this year seemed to hint that the game could end up coming out in 2024. In additional rumours surrounding the potential existence of GTA 6, a number of fans took to social media after there were rumours that Rockstar had hidden a screenshot for the game in its GTA: The Trilogy release earlier this year.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Red Candle Games, the Taiwanese studio behind critically acclaimed horror adventure game Detention, has announced that its next project will feature a change in genre as the studio looks to bring to life an action game inspired by From Software's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

As announced on Twitter, Red Candle Games' next project is Nine Sols - "a lore rich hand-drawn 2D action platformer with Sekiro-inspired deflection-focused combat." While very few details have been revealed about the game, the studio has teased the game's premise with a short statement alongside some art.

According to the tweet, players entering Nine Sols will "Embark on a journey of Asian fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race & follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay 9 Sols, rulers of a forsaken realm."

WIP title #NineSols, a lore rich hand-drawn 2D action platformer with Sekiro-inspired deflection-focused combat. Embark on a journey of Asian fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race & follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay 9 Sols, rulers of a forsaken realm pic.twitter.com/yRy4yHtlnF

— redcandlegames (@redcandlegames) December 16, 2021

As can be seen above, the additional concept art shared by the studio depicts what appears to be an anthropomorphic cat gazing into its own reflection in a pool of blood. While further details surrounding the game's plot are yet to be revealed, it seems as though it may draw on a blend of natural and technological themes.

Where one of the corpses on the ground in the background appears to have a mechanical limb protruding from its lifeless body and the floor of the massacre is giving off the same green vibes as an old motherboard might, a beautifully showcased natural world can be seen reflected somewhat ironically in the artworks blood-soaked scene of death and destruction.

While Nine Sols now has an official title, this isn't the first time that the studio has shown off footage from the game. Earlier this year, the developer teased a short 12-second clip on Twitter depicting the game's crisp 2D art style and the build-up to a combat sequence.

Work in progress pic.twitter.com/yPiNIWEOv6

— redcandlegames (@redcandlegames) March 19, 2021

Nine Sols will be Red Candle Games' third project. In 2017, the studio released its critically acclaimed horror adventure game Detention, in which players find themselves trapped and vulnerable in a cursed high school. Following the success of Detention, the studio returned to the horror genre once again with its launch of Devotion in 2019.

Similar to Detention, the 2019 horror was also initially welcomed with critical praise. However, only a week after launch, the game became inundated with poor reviews from Chinese citizens. These came as the result of an included art asset in the game, which drew comparisons likening Chinese President Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh.

Following the controversy, the game was delisted by Steam and remains off the platform to this day. In 2021, the game became available digitally for the first time in two years where it can be downloaded from the studio's very own e-shop.

Given the high praise that the studio's first two games received - controversial Winnie the Pooh memes aside - Nine Sols could certainly be a game to keep on your radar in the future. While the studio continues to tease details about the action-platformer's development, it has remained silent over a potential release date for the game.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

The King’s Man director, Matthew Vaughn, has said that he hopes to explore “the history of espionage” in a series of Kingsman prequel movies.

Talking to IGN, Vaughn said that he hopes The King’s Man performs well enough at the box office to allow the Kingsman films to exist as two series; the original modern day-set movies and prequels in period settings.

“I would love to go through history through the eyes of the Kingsman,” he said. “[I’d like to] take some historical events and find some gray areas to sneak into, but also do the history of espionage because it gets very interesting. I mean, the idea that we can end up doing a Kingsman movie set in the Cold War, and set it in '62 like Dr. No…”

Much like The King’s Man, Vaughn envisions a Cold War-era film to have a more serious tone. But, depending on the era of the story, he sees potential for something closer to the humour of the Bond-spoof original films.

“The Cold War, I think it was the period for writing spy movies, or novels, or scripts,” he said. “And that tone will be serious. I mean, more serious, but still fun and entertaining, but we can because of the periods and we can adapt to the '50s to the '60s, to the '70s. '70s will go a bit more Austin Powers-y maybe, who knows. The history writes the stories for us.”

In Vaughn’s mind, if he were able to continue The King’s Man thread of the franchise, it could bring the whole series full circle by reintroducing Colin Firth’s Harry Hart as a younger man, pre the first Kingsman story.

“This is the birth of a baby Kingsman,” he continued. “Hopefully, if in success we can get to that point, we meet a young Harry Hart and he realizes that the Kingsman are now totally out of touch. They've probably forgotten why they were founded, and he decides he wants to bring in new blood and make the Kingsman relevant to modern society. So there's a lot that we could do as long as people want it.”

The King’s Man releases on December 22 after a multi-year delay. For more, check out our exclusive Rasputin clip, the movie’s red band trailer, and our The King's Man review.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.

The King’s Man director, Matthew Vaughn, has explained that the movie’s somewhat more serious, historical epic tone was influenced by 1975’s The Man Who Would Be King, starring Sean Connery and Michael Cain. Furthermore, he considers any future prequels would share that tone, while the modern day films can be “more fun and gonzo”.

Talking to IGN, Vaughn said, “We wrote a backstory for The Secret Service with no intentions of ever making a prequel at that point. And then I re-watched a movie called The Man Who Would Be King, and I just forgot A) how much I loved that film, and B) how brilliant it is. And I was like, ‘Why is no one making movies like that anymore?’ It had everything in it, it was epic, historical, humour, emotion, some very strong political points. And it gave me an itch that I had to scratch.

“I thought, ‘You know what? Let's do a prequel.’ That's where it began,” he said.

“I think the modern ones can be more fun and Gonzo and we just do some stuff that people aren't expecting, and the other side will be more serious, but not boring. And that's the thing that I think we've forgotten is these old epic films. They were commercial entertainment back then. The Man Who Would Be King was not an art house, serious, worthy movie. It was just a great epic adventure. I wanted to try and bring it back because I loved them and I think there's no harm in trying to be a little bit different.”

Aside from its historical epic inspirations, the World War 1 setting also helped provide a bit more gravity to The King’s Man’s tone. “The whole point about this film is it's the birth of Kingsman, and Kingsman was born out of tragedy and out of the world needing to have people who are clever, who are responsible enough to think we should never have another war like this,” said Vaughn. “A pointless war basically, and a war that most people, even historians, cannot pinpoint why it happened, and what the aims were. I mean, it was crazy.”

For more from the world of Kingsman, check out Vaughn's hopes for a prequel series of movies that explore the history of espionage, as well as our exclusive Rasputin clip and review of The King’s Man.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.

Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn has revealed that his gritty superhero movie is being rebooted, and it’s going to be even more controversial than the original.

During an interview with Collider, the Kick-Ass director confirmed that the real-life superhero movie is getting a reboot, and it’s coming soon.

“We’ve got a big reboot of Kick-Ass in two years,” he said. “Big reboot.”

Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the titular hero, Kick-Ass follows the story of teenager Dave Lizewski as he takes up the superhero moniker, ‘Kick-Ass’. He soon meets his fellow vigilantes Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) as the trio become embroiled in a fight with the criminal underworld.

Despite a middling box office return, Kick-Ass became incredibly popular on home video, developing something of a cult following.

Now, after licensing out the international rights for 10 to 13 years, it looks as though those rights are about to return to Vaughn’s production company, Marv. And that makes it the perfect time to reboot the Kick-Ass series.

“It's so fucking nuts that I can't talk about it,” he said. “But we've got that ready to go. All the rights revert back in two years and then we're going to reboot it where people will be like, he is insane.”

But why reboot Kick-Ass? Why not make Kick-Ass 3?

“Because I think the clue is in the title,” said Vaughn. “I think Kick-Ass became a new type of genre. Everyone was like, ‘Oh, you can’t make R-rated superheroes. No one will want to see an R-rated superhero. You can’t do this. You can’t do that.’ So, I had this idea, and it was so nuts that I went, ‘Yeah, great. It’ll cause just as much controversy, and everyone will talk about it and as many people that love it will hate it’.”

“I’m not saying it hasn’t got the characters in it and won't have, you know,” he added. “I'm just saying it's not what anyone could be imagining what it is. And I'm going to need one very, very brave actor or actress to play the new Kick-Ass because it will scare the shit out of them.”

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn has revealed that his gritty superhero movie is being rebooted, and it’s going to be even more controversial than the original.

During an interview with Collider, the Kick-Ass director confirmed that the real-life superhero movie is getting a reboot, and it’s coming soon.

“We’ve got a big reboot of Kick-Ass in two years,” he said. “Big reboot.”

Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the titular hero, Kick-Ass follows the story of teenager Dave Lizewski as he takes up the superhero moniker, ‘Kick-Ass’. He soon meets his fellow vigilantes Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) as the trio become embroiled in a fight with the criminal underworld.

Despite a middling box office return, Kick-Ass became incredibly popular on home video, developing something of a cult following.

Now, after licensing out the international rights for 10 to 13 years, it looks as though those rights are about to return to Vaughn’s production company, Marv. And that makes it the perfect time to reboot the Kick-Ass series.

“It's so fucking nuts that I can't talk about it,” he said. “But we've got that ready to go. All the rights revert back in two years and then we're going to reboot it where people will be like, he is insane.”

But why reboot Kick-Ass? Why not make Kick-Ass 3?

“Because I think the clue is in the title,” said Vaughn. “I think Kick-Ass became a new type of genre. Everyone was like, ‘Oh, you can’t make R-rated superheroes. No one will want to see an R-rated superhero. You can’t do this. You can’t do that.’ So, I had this idea, and it was so nuts that I went, ‘Yeah, great. It’ll cause just as much controversy, and everyone will talk about it and as many people that love it will hate it’.”

“I’m not saying it hasn’t got the characters in it and won't have, you know,” he added. “I'm just saying it's not what anyone could be imagining what it is. And I'm going to need one very, very brave actor or actress to play the new Kick-Ass because it will scare the shit out of them.”

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.