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The (nearly) complete Hitman: World of Assassination experience, including all 25 levels and bald assassin Agent 47 himself, is making the leap from consoles and PC to iPhone and iPad. But folks might be shocked by the high sticker price of this new, portable version of the stealth action game. On August 27, as previously … Read more
What retro revival could resurrected ’90s licensed game publisher Acclaim possibly be teasing? Why doesn’t the director of Dragon’s Dogma want to make Soulslike-slop? And how did novelist turned film maker Alex Garland achieve every FromSoftware fan’s dream of showing his Elden Ring fanfic to Hidetaka Miyazaki? It’s another edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily … Read more
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is one of 2025’s biggest surprise success stories. Sandfall Interactive’s turn-based RPG has gone on to sell more than 3.3 million copies since its launch in April, and is a frontrunner as we head into Game of the Year talks in December. Naturally, Sandfall Interactive is looking to capitalize on all … Read more
No Man’s Sky‘s next big content drop is here and it continues the sci-fi survival sim’s journey to give players more tools than ever to play around with. Called Voyagers, update 6.0 will let fans make custom starships with enough space to walk around in them and crew them with friends. Whether you want to … Read more
It’s back-to-school season in the United States. Is that a holiday worth celebrating with a video game sale? Maybe not, but that hasn’t stopped the folks over at GOG from putting over 7,000 games on sale for the next two weeks. On August 26, the GOG Back-To-School Sale kicked off, perhaps to taunt children who … Read more
Activision has made a major announcement regarding a particular feature in this year’s Call of Duty, Black Ops 7. The game, which had its full reveal at gamescom just one week ago, will no longer support Carry Forward. Carry Forward is a feature that allows players to bring Black Ops 6 weapons, operators, skins and … Read more
Final Fantasy 14 came out over a decade ago and has been running on PlayStation 4 since soon after it launched. Sony’s last-gen hardware won’t be able to support Square Enix’s MMORPG forever, though, and director Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida recently explained why. “My basic stance is that I do want to continue supporting hardware which … Read more
Last week, after years and years of waiting, we finally got a release date for Hollow Knight: Silksong. The highly anticipated 2D action platformer is out next week, which is exciting for fans, but it is proving to be a problem for a number of indie studios that were planning to release their own games … Read more
After two months on the streaming service, KPop Demon Hunters has officially surpassed Red Notice to become Netflix’s most popular movie ever. Consider the Honmoon sealed, hunters. The animated musical took the crown on August 26, lapping the Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Ryan Reynolds-led action comedy by six million streams. As of right now, … Read more
The Deus Ex prequel games, Human Revolution and Mankind Divided, know how to strike a mood, with their excellent art direction, cryptic stories, and of course, the music, which contains gorgeously crafted synth sounds and atmospheres that inspire the mind to sink into their dystopian setting. If, like me, you loved the soundtracks in these … Read more