Once more unto the breach. Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku’s daily round-up of news, interesting stuff, and more, is here. This morning we’re looking at a second screen for the Switch 2 and a wider Steam, we’ve got good news about that new Mafia game, and the devs behind Battlefield 6 are making some changes to the … Read more
Wuyang, the 44th hero in Overwatch 2’s roster, isn’t officially in the game yet, but he’s already showing a lot of potential. The water-wielding Support character is playable for the next few days as part of a trial period, and after just one day with the hero, players are coming up with some diabolical combos. … Read more
The Final Fantasy Universes Beyond Magic: The Gathering Set is excellent. My only knock against it is how expensive it was to buy anything at launch between stores charging way over MSRP and scalpers driving up prices on reseller sites. For the first time since the record-breaking expansion launched, however, you can finally get the … Read more
Super-realistic revenge shooter Better Than Dead has just been announced, along with an intensely violent trailer. The brutal game, in which you play as a Chinese woman who has escaped from slavery and is now exacting revenge on the photo-realistic streets of Hong Kong, is all depicted as if from bodycam footage. And—wow—even the trailer … Read more
We now know when Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is coming out, how much it will cost, and that it’s not coming to Switch 2 at launch, at least if a new report from Dealabs writer billbil-kun is to believed, and they usually are. The apparent leaks raise questions about why the latest Call … Read more
Women’s NBA players are set to take the court alongside their male NBA counterparts in NBA 2K26’s MyTeam mode for the first time. WNBA players will appear in all MyTeam game modes, including the new Breakout: Gauntlet mode where players complete a series of matches where the difficulty gets harder and harder, but they can … Read more
Last weekend, Japanese McDonald’s outlets’ attempts to include packs of Pokémon cards in Happy Meals ended not only two days early, but in the complete chaos of miserable children and gross amounts of wasted food. This weekend, the chain is trying again, but this time with toys instead of cards and far more strict rules … Read more
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has been called a lot of things: Souls-slop, gooner-bait, a surprisingly good game. You can now add “censored” to the list after a recent 1.5 update made controversial changes to the game, seemingly to quell a backlash from some fans in China. A few diehard fans are now relieved they bought the … Read more
Insider Gaming says that the final mission sounds a lot like it will be an extraction-based experience with players needing to complete objectives before exiting the level and, presumably, finishing the game’s final campaign mission, though we’ll have to wait and see just what this all looks like in practice. While I’m always happy to … Read more
It feels like a long time ago that Saber Interactive and Universal announced Jurassic Park: Survival. And that’s because yeah, it’s been nearly two years! Since then, we’ve not gotten much else about the game, but earlier today, we finally got some fresh looks at Survival in action. Jurassic Park: Survival is an upcoming first-person … Read more