Halo RTS spin-off Halo Wars is having a free weekend on Steam that will start next Thursday and run until Sunday. It'll be worth jumping on: it's a solid RTS with a decent campaign that you'll enjoy even if you're not a fan of the Halo series. A weekend should give you more than enough time to get a feel for it and decide whether to buy it—or, you could just blast through the story in a couple of days and then leave it alone if you're not fussed about the multipla...

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A new patch is rolling out today for Halo Wars: Definitive Edition. This latest update includes: Added a volume slider for cinematics Added per-AI difficulty settings, selectable via the player card menu Fix scaling of supply gathering icons to match overall UI scaling Miscellaneous localization fixes Allow the middle, fourth, and fifth mouse buttons to be mapped to controls. Added voice chat. This can be disabled via the options menu for users that prefer to use third party chat applications. T...

A new patch is rolling out today for Halo Wars: Definitive Edition. This latest update includes: Added a volume slider for cinematics Added per-AI difficulty settings, selectable via the player card menu Fix scaling of supply gathering icons to match overall UI scaling Miscellaneous localization fixes Allow the middle, fourth, and fifth mouse buttons to be mapped to controls. Added voice chat. This can be disabled via the options menu for users that prefer to use third party chat applications. T...

All units! A small update is rolling out today with improvements and fixes to a few issues the team has been tracking. Here's what's included with this patch: Added Single Player Campaign Leaderboards. Added support for keyboard text to toggle between global (/g) and team (/t) chat. Text chat sender names are now colored according to player color. Fixed various graphics errors that sometimes occurred when a large number of units were on screen at the same time. Optimized CU download sizes. Any f...