Microsoft trolls the world by putting Clippy in Halo Infinite

techradar.com:

Halo Infinite Season 2 has arrived and brought one of the most divisive mascots of the tech industry with it. Clippy – Microsoft Office’s notorious animated assistant – has joined the game as an optional cosmetic.

As shared by product manager for Xbox James Shields, the cartoon paperclip has been added as a Halo Infinite nameplate, so you can proudly display the googly-eyed office essential to others. It's also available as a gun charm that can be hung from your weapons. After all, if there’s one thing Spartans are known for, it's their love of tacky trinkets of 20th century digital mascots.

The cosmetics are little stationary for our liking, though. Clippy wasn’t just an icon in Microsoft Office, but a fully animated interactive assistant that would regularly interject with well-meaning (if often redundant) suggestions, hop about your screen, and morph into weird shapes when you asked it questions. You could even right-click the fella and select “Animate!” to watch it spontaneously transform into a bike, throw a paper airplane, or put on a pair of headphones. It was definitely a very productive tool.