The DeanBeat: A delicious fall season is coming for gamers

With Geoff Keighley’s Gamescom Opening Night Live wrapped up on Wednesday, we now have a good rundown of all of the big game launches for the fall. And despite all of the worries we’ve had about delayed games — market researcher Newzoo cited delays as a reason why it predicted the game industry’s revenue will shrink in 2021 — I think it’s going to be a good fall season to round out a decent year.

One of the games that could save the season is coming in hot, as Microsoft confirmed this week that Halo: Infinite is going to debut December 8, without its Forge and co-op features. For gamers like me who don’t have a lot of time to play, it’s going to take a while to get through that PC and Xbox game. And I feel once again like I don’t have enough time to play all of the games that I want to that are coming out.