Halo Comes Full-Circle After 20 Years

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🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week, in honor of the release of Halo Infinite, we're taking a deep dive into the series as a whole. First, we kick things off with a little In The Headlines discussion, then we talk about the 20th anniversary of Halo, our thoughts on Halo Infinite, and how the game has changed over time.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kitaki's split screen the show where we talk about video games one excruciatingly specific topic at a time.
0:15.8	I'm your host, Lisa Marie. And joining me today are my co-host, Ethan Gatch. Hello. And not Fahey, because Fahey's still
0:25.3	feeling slightly under the weather. All right, don't be rude. He's not feeling great. He's okay. He's
0:32.9	just not feeling like super up to podcasting. And to be fair, we're a lot to deal with. So our replacement
0:39.5	Fahey is Renata. Gamer's Greetings. Do you just say Gamer's Greetings? I did say Gamer's Greetings.
0:46.4	Okay. Wow, the object disdain. I'm going to move right along. So today we are actually going to be talking
0:57.1	about Halo, as you can probably tell from the episode title, but we're recording this on Tuesday,
1:04.1	November 16th. And if you're listening anytime soon around when this comes out, you'll know
1:10.6	that today's a big
1:11.6	news day with a lot of allegations against Activision CEO Bobby Kodak coming out. And we're really
1:21.2	in the middle of the day so things can change. But we just wanted to address the news today
1:26.4	as it is, especially if maybe you don't follow
1:29.5	gaming news all the time, which absolute respect, it can be exhausting.
1:35.0	Ethan, I know you just wrote about this, so do you want to give like a really short breakdown
1:38.3	as to what is going on as we know it right now?
1:45.0	Okay, so the short breakdown is that the Wall Street Journal published a big expose today about new allegations at Active Vision Blizzard and specifically a deeper look at Bobby Codick's own behavior, basically sort of trying to answer
2:02.9	the question of what did he actually know and what was he involved in? And it basically outlines a
2:10.4	number of incidents that paint a pattern of Cotic, both mistreating women and being not responsive to concerns when they were raised,
2:20.6	and in one instance, actually intervening on another male executive's behalf to stop them
2:26.3	from being fired when it was recommended following an investigation into sexual harassment
2:30.5	allegations against them. That person was Dan Bunting, who was the now former co-head of Triarch, one of the crown
2:39.4	jewels in the Call of Duty Empire, you know, an 18-something-year veteran of the studio, and he was
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