Top control. Open Street. Pink three. Bottom Glass. B Steps. Needle Pit. Needle Pit. Needle Pit.
No, these aren’t Radiohead lyrics. They’re “callouts” from the Halo franchise — identifiers used to describe digital locations around the game’s multiplayer maps. Callouts are an integral part of the genre used to describe the location of enemies or other points of interest in an arena. Communicating efficiently with teammates to track where the action is occurring is a fundamental skill to any team shooter. But when a new game, like Halo Infinite, gets released, its community has to decide how to name these various regions of digital real estate. There’s no official voting system or reference book to guide the process. Names emerge organically, born of convenience, intuition, and the whims of pro players.
