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Halo Infinite Xbox Series X The promise of hot pink armour was reason enough to sample Infinite’s Cyber Showdown, but it was Attrition that really kept us coming back day after day. This Slayer variant gives each team a shared pool of lives – fall again once they’re depleted and you need to be revived by a teammate. A few minor rule changes, really, but enough to reenergise those rock-solid fundamentals, turning the final moments of each match into a tense battle-royale-ish scramble for survival. The event is now over, but 343 apparently has plans for Attrition’s return. You can guarantee we’ll be there, looking pretty in pink.

Death’s Door PC Long-time Edge readers may recall our Create section, with its People, Places and Things features. If those formats were around today (and we’ve been tempted to bring them back from time to time), then Death’s Door’s hookshot would surely be a shoo-in for the latter category. Its arrival is transformative for both combat and the world, grabbing our attention and pulling us through every last secret like… well, some kind of device for long-distance grabbing and pulling.

The Artful Escape PS5 With Sifu’s challenge proving steeper than almost any game in recent memory, why not soothe the pain with a palate cleanser that’s effectively one long downslope? The effortlessness of Beethoven & Dinosaur’s intergalactic rock opera proves hard to resist in a month where even Pokémon has upped the ante. Duty demands we return to Sloclap’s brawler after a couple of indulgent solos, but those bottles and bats no longer hold any fear – not when we can swap them for an axe.