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Last week, the Halo Infinite development team announced that it was walking back a years-old pledge to support split-screen co-op for the game's campaign mode. The feature had been delayed multiple times before being tossed into the bin , and the decision dashed the hopes of anyone who hoped to enjoy the game's campaign with at least one friend on a single screen.

Within days, fans suggested that the feature had been working on Xbox consoles all along, albeit via a glitch—which, as of press time, has yet to be patched on Halo Infinite 's retail version on Xbox consoles. Following reports and videos of the exploit, a team of gaming analysts confirmed via hours of campaign testing that Halo Infinite 's split-screen mode is functional—enough so that we're left scratching our heads as to what the heck is going on at Xbox.

How to do it yourself

Before I post any instructions, a warning: Using this exploit could affect or outright nuke your Xbox's Halo Infinite save files. This is due to a longstanding bug, reported in December , where Halo Infinite gets confused if two gamepads are signed into the same "gamertag" profile on one console. Assigning a separate gamertag to each connected controller before booting the game appears to solve the problem, but you have been warned.